CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA–e Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia has received a $49,827 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant under the National Endowment for the Humanities’ “We the People” program.

The award will fund development of VCDH’s “HistoryBrowser,” an interactive, Web-based platform for the visualization and dynamic manipulation of historical information.

Under the new grant, VCDH director Scot French and director of technology Bill Ferster will partner with Monticello webmaster Chad Wollerton and archivists, librarians and content experts at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation’s International Center for Jefferson Studies to develop a demonstration project focused on “Jefferson’s Travels.”

A demonstration, sample projects, and more information about the HistoryBrowser can be found online at www.primaryaccess.org/hub

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