The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science.
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Here are a few of their collections to pique your interest...
A History of US Public Libraries
America during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
America's Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal
American Aviatrixes: Women with Wings
Best Foot Forward: The Shoe Industry in Massachusetts
Boom and Bust: The Industries That Settled Montana
Bread and Roses Strike of 1912: Two Months in Lawrence, Massachusetts, that Changed Labor History
Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
Children in Progressive-Era America
From Colonialism to Tourism: Maps in American Culture
Georgia's Home Front: World War II
History of Survivance: Upper Midwest 19th-Century Native American Narratives
In Focus: The Evolution of the Personal Camera
Indomitable Spirits: Prohibition in the United States
Leaving Europe: A new life in America
Patriotic Labor: America during World War I
Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps
Quack Cures and Self-Remedies: Patent Medicine
Recreational Tourism in the Mountain West
Roosevelt's Tree Army: The Civilian Conservation Corps
Staking Claims: The Gold Rush in Nineteenth-Century America
The Show Must Go On! American Theater in the Great Depression
This Land Is Your Land: Parks and Public Spaces
Torn in Two: Mapping the American Civil War
Tragedy in the New South: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
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