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Digital History Center

Housed in the Department of History & War Studies

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About the Center

The United States Military Academy at West Point Department of History & War Studies is a world leader in the field of digital history. This encompasses both a methodological approach to asking and answering questions about the human past that would have been impossible or impractical to tackle without the aid of computers, and the use of digital tools for communicating historical sources and analysis in better ways than traditional media allow. The Digital History Center (DHC) encourages, coordinates, and supports the efforts of our faculty and cadets in the creation of digital history products, and works to sustain and continuously improve the digital textbooks and other resources used to enhance the learning of cadets in the courses we teach. The DHC also serves the wider historical community by making available digital resources that support learning about, teaching, or connecting with history, including digital versions of our widely used maps.

 
 

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LTC James Martin Director of the Digital History Center

LTC James Martin is an assistant professor in the Department of History & War Studies at the United States Military Academy (USMA). He is also the director for the Digital History Center and is responsible for history research centers operation.

He grew up as an Army brat and graduated from USMA as a signal officer in 2007. Martin deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan with the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade from Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia. He later commanded two companies at Fort Eisenhower, formerly Fort Gordon, Georgia.

Martin served his first rotation with the USMA Department of History from 2015 to 2018, where he was a course director and branch executive officer. After completing Intermediate Level Education, he served for three years as a brigade S-6 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Prior to returning to USMA, Martin served as the G-6 Plans and Training Branch head for a NATO organization in Poland.

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LTC Justine Meberg Deputy Director of the Digital History Center

LTC Meberg was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and grew up across the globe, to include years spent living in the Ivory Coast, France, and Venezuela. She deployed to Iraq as a platoon leader, commanded two companies, and has served in staff positions including S2, S4, Aide-de-Camp, and BDE S3 across. She has a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her dissertation won the Bancroft Dissertation Award, and her first book won the Broussard Best First Book Prize. She is a dual-military officer with two children and two dogs.

 

Digital History Center Leadership

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Dr. Clifford Rogers

Professor and Director of the Digital History Center

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Prof Clifford Rogers graduated magna cum laude from Rice University, where he triple-majored in economics, history, and policy studies, before earning his MA and Ph.D. in military history from The Ohio State University. He was a Fulbright fellow in the U.K. and an Olin fellow at Yale prior to joining the USMA faculty in 1995. After a year away from the Academy as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Wales, Swansea, he was promoted to Professor of History in 2006. Professor Rogers was a co-founder (in 2002) and remains a co-editor of The Journal of Medieval Military History, and is also the co-Senior Editor of the digital, interactive West Point History of Warfare.

COL Seanegan Sculley

Professor and Director of the Digital History Center

COL Seanegan Sculley enlisted in the US Army in January 1995 as an airborne infantryman and served in Vicenza, IT until attending Officer Candidate School in the summer of 1999. He was commissioned as an Armor officer and became a tank platoon leader in 1-12 Cavalry at Fort Hood, TX before completing his BA in History at Texas State University in December 2002. From 2007-2012, he served as both an instructor and assistant professor of History at the United States Military Academy during which time he deployed to Mosul, Iraq from 2009-2010. He earned his PhD in History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in May 2015 and he currently serves as an Academy Professor in the Department of History at West Point.   

The Digital History Center Projects

The projects undertaken or supported by the DHC generally fall into three broad categories:
  • Cadet research utilizing digital history methodologies and involving faculty mentorship:
  • Research projects by faculty members using digital history methods, often involving the integration of cadets as undergraduate researchers:
  • History projects that are more about using digital media to present history in interactive ways than to answer historical questions.
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Atlases The Digital History Center hosts and produces atlases and maps from across the span of human history

Caesar's Campaign in Gaul

View the atlases for history’s oldest campaigns here.

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Napoleon's Russian Campaign

Explore the campaigns of Napoleon here.

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World War One Maps

See the maps of the First World War here.

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Recent Conflicts Maps

Explore maps of modern war here.

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3D Models The Digital History Center develops 3D models for historical education.

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Partners The following organizations have partnered with the Digital History Center by providing invaluable knowledge, talent, and material.

The Center for Oral History

The Center for Oral History

The mission of the West Point Center for Oral History (COH) is to record, preserve, and present the stories of soldiers, statesmen, and others who have influenced the profession of arms, in order to inspire, educate, and develop cadets, enhance the public’s understanding of the experience of the soldier, and create new primary source material for scholars.
Material Culture Studies

Material Culture Studies

Material Culture Studies serves as a conduit between the West Point Museum and the Department of History, and seeks to leverage its unparalleled collection to enhance historical perspectives for both cadets and faculty alike. With access to the Museum’s rare and plentiful artifacts, material culture enables our instructors to take history out of the books and place it directly into the hands of cadets in the classroom.
United States Military Academy Band

United States Military Academy Band

The extremely skilled and talented members of the West Point Band have worked with the Digital History Center to record historical songs and instrumental music that has been incorporated into The West Point History of Warfare. We are working to add to the repertoire and present the music, along with supporting historical texts, in other formats, as well.
The West Point Museum

The West Point Museum

The West Point Museum has an extraordinary collection of artifacts and artworks. Collaboration with the Museum has enabled the Digital History Center to create widgets that match textual descriptions of the equipment of soldiers of various eras with photographs of their equipment and uniforms. The Museum has also provided high-quality images of original artwork, including pieces drawn or painted by soldiers, that have been included in The West Point History of Warfare.
The Resnick Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

The Resnick Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

The RCHGS operates as an inter-service hub, linking all branches of the Armed Forces with academic institutions, government agencies, and non-governmental entities world-wide, empowering current and future leaders to think deeply about the causes, contexts, and consequences of genocide while instilling a profound sense of history, ethics, and responsibility.
The West Point Press
The West Point Press
The West Point Press is the publishing arm of the United States Military Academy at West Point. It embodies and advances the Academy’s mission and core values by publishing practical knowledge for students, scholars, and leaders around the world. The Press disseminates knowledge via peer reviewed monographs and journals, digital textbooks, white papers, articles, reports, proceedings, and podcasts. The Press’ monographs and journals are platinum open access.