This session, organized by the American Historical Review, explores the historical thinking involved in conceptualizing community-based collaborative projects that challenge racial and imperial structures. Panelists, who have recently received NHPRC-Mellon Digital Planning Grants, will be invited to reflect on their approach to community engagement and what it means to develop meaningful and mutually beneficial collaborative work with community partners in the context of their creation of digital editions. After short presentations by each panelist on their project we will facilitate a conversation among the panelists and the audience to foster a rich discussion around collaboration from multiple vantage points among them inter-institutional and community-based exchanges.