Here are some excellent examples of digital cultural archives. I will be adding to this list daily, so be sure to check back often. Also, I welcome any suggestions for other archives (just send in a comment to this post with the name and address of the archive).
- A-Bomb WWW Museum
- United States Holocaust Museum
- Abandoned Missile Bass VR Tour
- Barnum’s Lost Museum
- September 11 Digital Archive
- Sonic Memorial Project
- The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in America
- Levittown, PA: Building the American Dream
- Television News of the Civil Rights Era
- The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
- Virtual Jamestown
- Making of America
- Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943
- Alcatraz Island
- The Secret History of the Credit Card
- Alaska’s Digital Archive
- America in the 1930s
- Medieval Mystery – Who is the Master of the Embroidered Foliage?
- Fugitive Images
- Civil War Maps
- Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
- Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
- Frontline: A Company of Soldiers
- The Walt Whitman Archive
- The James Madison Papers (Library of Congress)
- 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago
- 1964 World’s Fair in New York
- 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia
- The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
- Who Killed William Robinson?
- Japanese American Exhibit
A great source of worthwhile cultural archives is the Internet Scout Report. You can search the archives by keyword, or browse the archive by date.