Housed within the Department of History, and taking seeded beginnings from the former Cartographic Center for Excellence, the Digital History Center (DHC) at West Point will be a 21st-century public-facing digital makerspace that not only preserves—but also makes interactive—a critical corpus of primary source materials and cutting-edge publications, instilling “wisdom through history” for the next generation of U.S. Army Officers and beyond.
The DHC will serve as a content-generating digital laboratory, create opportunities for cadets to experience history through interactive augmented and virtual reality products, and widen the scope of historical inquiry by building customized, codable databases of historical information.
As the world of information gathering, analysis, and dissemination rapidly changes, it is imperative that West Point engage tomorrow’s officers in the robust lessons of yesterday and equip them with full proficiency of cutting-edge technology so they can succeed in leading the Army of the future anywhere in the world.
