A brief history of Manifold

In 2012, the CUNY Graduate Center’s Digital Scholarship Lab collaborated with the University of Minnesota Press and Cast Iron Coding to produce an interactive web edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities at dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu. The open-source platform presented the volume in an attractive, responsive design and allowed readers to comment and highlight passages of interest.

In August 2020, the NEH Office of Digital Humanities awarded the Manifold team a grant of $375,000 over two years to support “Manifold in the Classroom: Digital Publishing for Open Pedagogy.” Crucial to this work was funding provided by the CUNY Office of Library Services and New York State, which supported the initial development of features related to open educational resources. This NEH funding will help make the platform even more effective at enabling instructors and students to create and engage with classroom materials.