Hayward Is Home is a collaborative digital history project developed by undergraduate students, graduate students, and lifelong learners in a course taught by Dr. Bridget Ford. Drawing on collections at the Hayward Area Historical Society, students explored the city's diverse histories through themes of home, identity, and belonging. Their discoveries range from a radical newspaper of the 1970s to a Japanese garden that influenced local highway development and the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse of the Hayward shoreline.

The project demonstrates how archival research and digital storytelling can bring local history to wider audiences.

Visit the Hayward Is Home Website

History majors at Cal State East Bay have the opportunity to practice digital humanities, investigating histories piquing their curiosity and research interests. Digital humanities is a diverse and rapidly evolving field that our majors explore and practice, to carry historical knowledge outside the classroom to wide audiences and to take advantage of digital tools and forms of analysis outside traditional narrative forms.