[7] This was followed in 2000 by a grant from the Alfred Sloan Foundation, which led to a major expansion of center personnel and its relocating to its own space, separate from the department.

[14] In 2018, The Chronicle of Higher Education released a report on the top universities to receive funding from the NEH over the past years.

[29] The center also worked directly with school systems and cultural heritage institutes to create pedagogical materials ranging from lesson plans to digital archives of primary sources.

This led to Thomson Reuters, the makers of the commercial reference management software EndNote, suing George Mason University and the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2008;[44] the lawsuit was dismissed in 2009.

During the 2000s and early 2010s, the center distributed a series of digital tools for historians and teachers, including Web Scrapbook, Survey Builder, Scribe (a note taking application designed with historians in mind), Poll Builder, H-Bot (an automated historical fact finder), and Syllabus Finder, which allowed users to find and compare syllabi from thousands of universities and colleges on any topic, using the Google search engine.

In 2017, with financial support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the center released Tropy,[49][50] a desktop knowledge organization application to manage and describe photographs of research materials.

[53] Four essays, covering such diverse topics as photos, as legal evidence, the Spanish–American War in film, early comic strips, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, offer contrasting approaches to using digital media for scholarly presentations.

[54] Other early experiments in digital publishing include Imaging the French Revolution, a series of essays analyzing images of crowds in the French Revolution[55] and Interpreting the Declaration of Independence by Translation,[56] a roundtable of historians brought together to discuss the translation and reception of the Declaration of Independence in Japan, Mexico, Russia, China, Poland, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Israel.

It subsequently published a whitepaper, "Argument and Digital History"[66][67] and ran a panel on it at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting.

[72] Hosted at the center until 2017, History News Network[73] features articles, placing current events in historical perspective, written by historians of all political persuasions.

One of Rosenzweig's last NEH grants, continued by Cohen after his death, was to research, develop, and test tools for text mining.

[74] Recent projects in the area of computational history include Sheila Brennan and Lincoln Mullen's NEH-funded Mapping American Elections;[75] Lincoln Mullen's American Public Bible, which builds on the Library of Congress' Chronicling America collection; and Jessica Otis' National Science Foundation funded Death by Numbers, on the early modern London bills of mortality.

[78] Recent podcasts include Abigail Mullen's Consolation Prize, which focuses on the history of early American consuls,[79] Kelly's The Green Tunnel, which focuses on the 100 years of history of the Appalachian Trail,[80] and James Ambuske's Worlds Turned Upside Down on the American Revolution.