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Peter Gatkouth an immigration specialist working with the work relief in high point North Carolina helps legal immigrants stay connected with their families. This particular project was sponsored by the Wake Forest University and funded in part by the Humanities council. The Humanities council uses digital material to encourage a new approach to understanding of immigration, with a renewed focus on the lives and experiences of those who are already here. The site includes an interactive world map, which gives a geographic lens to the issue of immigration. It also incorporates a crowd sourcing component where users can upload their own content, their own stories of movement and migration.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has generously funded the MONK Project. MONK is a digital landscaped designed to help humanities scholars in their research and analysis of text. This projects is publicly available with texts from Indiana University, University of Virginia, Martin Mueller at Northwestern University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

This website is for the American Heritage Vegetable project, a digital humanities program dedicated to documenting the cultivation practices and cookery of vegetables in the American kitchen. It also shares what kind of vegetables are in the market during different time periods. The information is collected from sources such as agricultural journals, gardening encyclopedias, and even horticultural manuals. With the American Heritage Vegetables project people can learn how we eat, what we eat, and the way American cuisine has changed throughout history.