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Harlem Health History
Harlem Health History Partner: Samuel K. Roberts- Department of History
The Harlem Health History project was created to enhance students' historical research on health-focused social movements in an African American community. The project offers students in Professor Samuel Roberts' course, "History of African American Health and Health Movements," a repository of digitized primary source materials about health and public policy...

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Access: Private
Released: September 2009
Amistad Digital Resource
Amistad Digital Resource Partner: Manning Marable- Institute for Research in African American Studies
The Amistad Digital Resource is a multimedia website that shares hundreds of rare and iconic photographs, audio and video clips, oral history interviews, maps, and descriptive text explaining significant themes and key events in African American history, from slavery to the 21st century. Funded by a grant from the Ford...

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Access: Open to all
Released: June 2009

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Project Vietnam
Project Vietnam Partner: WGBH- Project Vietnam provides Columbia University students unique access to heretofore inaccessible material from the landmark 1983 documentary Vietnam: A Television History, co-produced by Boston's public television station, WGBH. Funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Project Vietnam is a partnership between CCNMTL, WGBH, and the...

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Access: Private
Released: March 2009
New York Neighborhoods Wiki
New York Neighborhoods Wiki Partner: Ken Jackson- Department of History
The New York Neighborhoods Wiki is an online compilation of student-produced research on New York neighborhoods for Professor Ken Jackson's History of New York lecture course. Students developed walking tours of neighborhoods based on their original research. The website contains Google mapping technologies that allow students to mark their tours...

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Access: Private
Released: December 2007

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Historical Studies for Sociomedical Sciences
Historical Studies for Sociomedical Sciences Partner: Amy Fairchild- School of Public Health
CCNMTL worked with Professor Amy Fairchild to develop and implement an educational tool that incorporates imagery in the pursuit of historical theory building. The tool, which repurposed the Center's internal Slideshow Maker tool, allowed students to upload images to a communal database. Students could then choose a subset of these...

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Released: April 2002
Archived, no longer available.
Electronic Encyclopedia of the Ancient World Prototype
Electronic Encyclopedia of the Ancient World Prototype Partner: Roger Bagnall, William Harris- Arts and Sciences
A prototype for a comprehensive online reference for the study of the ancient Mediterranean world....

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Access: Private
Released: April 2002

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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Experience
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Experience Partner: Manning Marable- Arts and Sciences
This e-seminar examines the life and work of W.E.B. Du Bois, the leading African-American writer and political activist of the twentieth century and author of The Souls of Black Folk. The e-seminar is divided into three modules and contains a number of interactive elements to engage the student in the...

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Access: Columbia only
Released: January 2001

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Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke Partner: Marc Meyer- School of General Studies
A primary reading in the Core Curriculum, this text is enhanced by the MSE with the inclusion of glossaries of concepts and people, author's notes and links to reference materials such as the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Grove Dictionary of Art....

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Released: December 1999
Archived, no longer available.