Digital Humanities in New Mexico

Check out some of the great digital humanities projects people are doing in New Mexico. Are you working on something cool? Let us know!!

 

Augmented Reality Manhattan Project

The Albuquerque Journal covered a new augmented reality app that reveals Los Alamos in the days of the Manhattan Project. Now available for Android!

Los Alamos app allows users to visit 1940s ‘Atomic City’

Wikipedia Edit-a-thons

Laura Soito at UNM Libraries is leading a regular initiative to improve information about New Mexico and New Mexicans on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon at UNM Libraries

National History Day Students

New Mexico students create some great websites and documentaries for National History Day. Check out some projects from scholars who brought projects all the way to Nationals!

Exploration and Exploitation: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid in South Africa  (Senior group website, Los Alamos)

Exploring a New World: Fort Shaw Indian Girls’ Basketball Team (Senior individual website, Farmington)

The Enchantress of Numbers (Junior individual website, Farmington)

“Aro” Mercenaries, Outlaws: The War in Lincoln County (Junior group website, Alamogordo)

The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Flight (Junior group website, Silver City)