There exists a deep, profitable relationship between digital humanities and the discipline of history.
Both projects evaluated sought to expand the public’s knowledge of history through digital humanities, utilizing some of its fundamental goals and values. Inspired by digital humanities projects such as The American Yawp and DALME, historians will likely continue to use digital humanities to create valuable contributions to the discipline in the future.
Digital humanities provides historians with a variety of tools that can be utilized to make history more open, diverse, and accessible to the public.
