Exploring social change, promoting social justice

Digital Harrisburg is a collaboration between Harrisburg University and Messiah College. It is designed to connect the public, researchers, and undergraduate students, giving them all the opportunity to explore the social history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s capital.

With these goals in mind, we provide:

Rich digital exhibits designed to be explored by anyone with an interest in the history of Harrisburg and the way the city has changed over the years

Exhaustive datasets that social researchers will find useful as they dig deeper into Harrisburg’s history

Fascinating blog posts that give opportunities for undergraduate students at Messiah College from a wide range of disciplines to have their own work published. The blog is specifically designed to offer a glimpse into the production of this digital humanities project as well as a place to highlight exciting and curious discoveries made by Messiah’s budding researchers

 

DATASETS

A curated collection of social historical datasets of Harrisburg available for research. Currently, the databases are still under construction.

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Do You Know ME? Help us find descendants of 100 important Harrisburgers

In partnership with the Commonwealth Monument Project, we are launching a campaign via Facebook, Twitter, and this blog to track down direct descendants of 100 influential African-American citizens who called Harrisburg their home in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our collaborators in the project, history detectives Mr. Calobe Jackson, Lenwood Sloan, and Jeb…

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