Clio in Kansas City

Digital and Public Humanities

​Dr. David Trowbridge is the William T. Kemper Associate Research Professor of Digital and Public Humanities at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Trowbridge uses technology to connect people to history. He is the author of A History of the United States and the creator of Clio.
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Discover and Share the History that Surrounds Us.

​Dr. David Trowbridge (Ph.D. Kansas, 2008) is the William T. Kemper Associate Research Professor of Digital and Public Humanities at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. As part of his research and teaching, Trowbridge uses technology to connect people to history. As part of that effort, Trowbridge authored A History of the United States, a textbook published under a Creative Commons license and available to students and the public in various formats. In 2013, Trowbridge began work on Clio, a website and mobile application that connects people to nearby history and culture. Clio is free for everyone and has grown to over 35,000 articles for individual landmarks and over twelve hundred walking tours and virtual tours of museums and historic sites.

Read a 2025 article about Clio from HNN

Clio offers free audio tours of historic sites

 

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Discover and Share History

Sharing the histories of Kansas City

Enjoy this video that highlights how our team at UMKC is working with museums, libraries, and archives to share the histories of Kansas City.

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  • Clio in use within a hiking trail

    HNN Article on Clio

    The inaugural article in a 2025 HNN series on public history, this article discusses how professors, museums, libraries, and historical societies are using Clio to share the history of their...

  • Trowbridge TED talk

    TEDx Talk: How to Make History

    Dr. David Trowbridge discusses the process of historical research and some of the connections between history and other disciplines. TEDx Marshall University, Feb 2022

  • Trowbridge at Liberty Memorial in KC

    Kansas City Magazine Article on Clio

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