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The article explores the potential of digital storytelling as a tool for promoting historical understanding. Digital storytelling is based on a playful-narrative approach to “mediated” learning by using digital technologies. The game takes the form of activities involving the “manipulation” of historical knowledge and editing of digital resources (sounds, images, videos) selected from web archives, based on a shared digital storyboard. The digital storytelling game is configured as a context of play and learning designed to produce digital historical narratives. Playing a game based on historical knowledge is an effective way to learn history by exploring the creative and playful potential of new technologies to establish links, in the form of digital stories, between the knowledge of the past, the use of sources and historical awareness.