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The Kentuckiana Digital Library serves as a gateway to multiple digital collections based on the history and culture of Kentucky. Providing access to thousands of newspapers, books, images, maps, oral histories, manuscripts, and journals, the project is a tremendous resource for those interested in Kentucky and the Appalachian region.
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/dunbar/
This digital collection features selections from the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar (1872-1906) was a prominent African-American writer who composed multiple poems, several books, and a number of libretti. Many have been digitized by Wright State University in Dunbar’s hometown of Dayton, Ohio, along with a bibliography for future reading and a photo gallery.
http://merrick.library.miami.edu/digitalprojects/chc.html
The University of Miami provides access to a variety of digitized manuscripts, photographs, and maps drawn from their Cuban Heritage Collections. The collections span a wide range of topics including economics, war, politics, history, literature, theatre, immigration, tourism, sports, religion, and communism.
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/digital/
The Brooklyn Public Library has digitized selections from some of their most popular archival collections. Offering access to historic newspapers, photographs, sheet music, advertisements, playbills, and children’s books, the collections showcase the history of culture of the borough.
http://iowaheritage.lib.uiowa.edu/
Several academic and cultural institutions in Iowa have collaborated to create the Iowa Heritage Digital Collections. By selecting the browse feature, users may peruse descriptions for over three dozen sub-collections and review the contents of each. Topics covered include race, religion, publishing, humor, photography, sports, education, aviation, transportation, war, agriculture, immigration, geology, music, and cartography.
http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/
From 1907 to 1930, Edward S. Curtis recorded his research and observations related to traditional North American Indian cultures. Comprised of twenty volumes of text and a wealth of images, Curtis’ work is an ambitious effort to document one American’s perspective on Indian life during the early twentieth century.
Footnote is a unique digital project that provides access to original historical documents and incorporates the growing trend of online social networking. Users are invited to upload content and to offer interpretations. As a result, available materials cover a wide variety of subjects ranging from major historical figures and events to lesser-known personal stories, genealogy, and community histories. Requires member registration - basic membership is free, but offers limited functionality and access.
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/lsc/
Claremont Colleges have digitized the personal scrapbooks of the prominent physician and philanthropist, Dr. Walter Lindley (1852-1922). Lindley was an early resident of Los Angeles who contributed to the development of the city through his pioneering medical work and his civic achievements. The scrapbooks include clippings, correspondence, and photographs, and users may browse or search the collection.
Mark Twain set a number of his best-known works in the Mississippi River Valley. Using Twain’s own works, his personal papers, and supplementary information about the setting, scholars have constructed a fascinating view of the region during the nineteenth century. Together, Twain and the scholars behind this digital project offer a unique perspective on the developments and challenges of the era including Westward Expansion, racial and ethnic conflict, industrialization, the Civil War, and its aftermath.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/index.html
The U.S. Government Printing Office has begun to digitize the public papers of the American presidents, including public writings, addresses, and remarks. Still a work in progress, the site currently provides access to public papers for the current president, as well as presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. Each president’s papers are divided into six-month segments with tables of contents, photographic portfolios, and both name and subject indices. Users may browse the collection or conduct specific searches by subject, document type, name, or country.
http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/
The Rutgers Oral History Archive focuses on the achievements and perspectives of Rutgers University and Douglass College alumni/ae who served at home and abroad during World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War. The project’s creators sought to understand the impact of these wars on higher education in America and to highlight the contributions made by the university’s alumni/ae to the history of the state and the nation. The project currently provides access to over 450 oral histories.
http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/index.html
The archivists at Rutgers University have begun to digitize and edit the papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who were the foremost advocates of women’s suffrage (right to vote) in the United States. This digital collection is a work in progress with a relatively limited selection of documents and texts. But as they work, the project’s creators have also provided some insight into the process of documentary editing. Users will likely come away with a great deal of knowledge about how such a collection is chosen, edited, and presented.
http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/
The University of Tennessee has provided online access to a “definitive and comprehensive” encyclopedia of the history and culture of Tennessee. As users might expect, this is a secondary source with fairly minimal primary source content; though, articles on selected topics are accompanied by one or more related images. Users will find articles about the Volunteer State on such wide-ranging topics as African-Americans, conservation, medicine, and sports.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/online.html
Brigham Young University hosts a number of digital collections on a wide variety of topics. Many collections relate to the history and culture of BYU and the contributions of its students, faculty, and alumni/ae. Others focus on topics of regional interest including Mormonism, frontier settlement, and Western ecology. Still others have broader appeal, touching on subjects as diverse as Italian tourism, children’s literature, World War II, John Donne, the Pacific Islands, and the Sudan. Interested users may search or browse the various collections.
http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/
The libraries of Northwestern University provide access to a wide variety of digital collections. The collections have especially strong coverage of Africa, Chicago, Europe, and science. Users may browse or search collections.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
British History Online provides access to a wealth of primary and secondary sources on the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Using manuscripts, scholarly works, images, reference works, and maps, the digital library covers a wide variety of subjects. Users may browse the materials or search by topic, region, period, or source type.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/index.html
Enlightenment thinker, Denis Diderot, along with 140 fellow scholars, compiled Encyclopedie in the mid-eighteenth century. The work was designed to be a compendium of human knowledge and an example of Enlightenment values. Recently, the University of Michigan has partially digitized the original French version and translated a number of the articles into English. This digital project is a work in progress and new translations are periodically added.
Gallica represents a wealth of primary source materials drawn from the holdings of the National Library of France (BNF). Resources include 90,000 texts and 80,000 images, as well as audio content. Users should note that most sources pertain to the history and culture of France and the Francophone world, and all introductory, explanatory, and editorial information is provided only in French.
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/UW/subcollections/MeuerAlbumsAbout.html
From 1888 to 1935, photographer William J. Meuer captured a visual history of campus and community life at the University of Wisconsin. This digital collection showcases thousands of his photographs of university students, faculty, alumni, and campus guests. Included in the collection are depictions of academic, athletic, and social events at the university; images of visits from political dignitaries and other noted celebrities; and photographs of local landscapes and historic sites.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/donaldsonweb/
Between 1946 and 1964, the United States conducted nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific, primarily on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The resulting radiation had a tremendous impact on local ecology and along with several colleagues, Lauren R. Donaldson of the University of Washington surveyed the damage. This digital collection showcases Donaldson’s personal papers, photographs, and surveys.
Banned by the French government until 1949, Charles Baudelaire’s 1857 collection of poems, Fleurs de Mal (The Flowers of Evil), contains provocative commentary on personal, social, and cultural challenges in nineteenth-century France. This digital project provides access to all of the poems in the collection along with English translations, audio recordings, and editorial material.
Available in both English and French, this interesting digital project traces the history of the Imperial Cannery in Steveston, British Columbia from 1902 to 1997. Imperial Cannery’s parent company, BC Packers, was the largest fish processing facility in the British Commonwealth during its century-long history. BC Packers’ culturally diverse workforce tells the story of labor and community on the Steveston waterfront.
http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/index.php/index
This digital project provides access to a variety of materials related to the waters of the American West. Focusing on the Columbia, Colorado, Platte and Rio Grande River basins, the project touches on the legal, political, cultural, and ecological debates over Western waters as well as the resources and opportunities the waters have provided to humans and animals in the region.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/diseases/index.html
This digital project provides an overview of early American approaches to psychiatry. Using primary source documents and photographs, the site features pioneering practitioners, institutions, and activists concerned with mental health care. Based on the nineteenth century, the project also traces the emergence of state intervention in the treatment of the mentally ill.
http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/wandora/w?action=gen〈=en
The Finnish National Gallery has assembled tens of thousands of works of art in digital form ranging from the fifteenth century to the present. Works may be browsed or searched by theme, medium, date, or artist. Information about the art and the site is available in English and Finnish.
http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib/agsphoto/index.html
This digital project presents over 3000 photographs taken from the holdings of the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL). This growing collection is currently strongest in its coverage of Asia and the Middle East. Users may be especially intrigued by the vivid and beautiful photos of Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and North Korea.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB242/index.htm
This digital project is devoted to the life and work of the recently deceased and highly controversial Indonesian leader, Suharto. Using a variety of declassified documents from the United States National Security Archive, the collection traces the exploits of Suharto, the nature of U.S.-Indonesian relations under his leadership, and American perceptions of him during his early career.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/patriotic/patriotic-home.html
This digital project illuminates the history of two dozen of the most popular patriotic American songs. Using recordings, sheet music, manuscript scores, and editorial notes, the project explores the origins of popular tunes such as “America the Beautiful,” “God Bless America,” and the national anthem.
http://cdrh.unl.edu/higginson/
This digital collection presents a selection of writings—mostly letters and sermons—from the nineteenth-century American thinker, Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Though Higginson is likely best known for the correspondence he exchanged with poet Emily Dickinson, his career as a minister and writer engaged him in virtually all of the most important debates of his time, including slavery, women’s rights, temperance, and war. This collection can be browsed by topic and provides images of original writings along with typed transcripts.
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/
This digital project brings together half a million pages of primary sources (textual and visual) based on the history of disease and epidemics. The collection is organized around several notable episodes of epidemic diseases such as cholera, the plague, smallpox, influenza, syphilis, tuberculosis, and yellow fever. The project explores the biological and medical facets of each episode along with its economic, political, social, and cultural ramifications. Finally, the collection is framed by a timeline of episodes of significant diseases and epidemics.
http://caa.ucalgary.ca/viewsof20thcentury
“Views of 20th Century Canada” is a work-in-progress by the Canadian Architectural Photography Digitization Project that showcases over 10,000 photos of the birth of the city in modern Canada. Along with editorial guides, the images trace the development of the urban landscape in Canada and its impact on the history of the nation.
http://www.time.com/time/archive
Time Magazine now offers a digital archive from 1923 to the present. The site includes a number of interesting features. While users may search for specific articles by name, date, subject, or keyword, they may also search magazine covers in the same fashion. Additionally, the search engine allows users to explore coverage of various subject matters over time.
http://www.icc.cat/portal/index_c.jsp?lang=en_UK&profile=ciu
Spain’s Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya (ICC) hosts a digital collection of ancient and modern maps drawn from regions throughout the world. Though the collection is particularly strong in its coverage of local areas (i.e. Barcelona ), maps of the Americas, Africa, and Asia are also included. Users may view, search, and download most maps.
http://www.keene.edu/library/orangasli/digitalcoll.cfm
Keene State College hosts three digital photography collections based on anthropological studies of the Orang Asli peoples of Peninsular Malaysia. Collectively, the studies reflect over thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in the region. All three collections may be browsed or searched by keyword.
http://www.njdigitalhighway.org/
This digital collection showcases the holdings of several libraries, museums, and historical societies throughout the state of New Jersey. While the collection is particularly strong in its coverage of history and culture in New Jersey, it also contains materials on genealogy, immigration, agriculture, and war that may be of general interest to those studying United States history.
http://digitaldurham.duke.edu/
This digital project focuses on the history of Durham, North Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition to being the home of Duke University, which hosts the project, Durham serves as a case study for many important trends shaping the post-Civil War South, including industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and emmancipation. The web site contains primary sources for Durham between the 1870s and the 1920s. Topics can be browsed or searched by keyword and searched by Library of Congress Subject Heading.
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?title=Letters%20Home%20From%20Congress
This digital collection features letters from three prominent congressmen from the state of Vermont. Congressmen Austin, Collamer, and Crafts served in the nineteenth century and wrote home on a variety of local, state, and national matters. The letters shed light on political and social trends from the perspective of three political men from rural New England.
The digital collections hosted by Miami University showcase about 16,000 primary sources including photographs, newspapers, videos, and interviews. While much of the collection pertains to the history of the university and the region, certain materials, such as the collection of Victorian trade cards, reveal broader trends in the economy and culture of nineteenth-century America.
http://contentdm.warwick.ac.uk/index.php
The University of Warwick’s library has digitized several hundred plays derived from two larger collections: 1) Revolutionary Drama: Plays from the French Revolutionary period and 2) Empire Period Drama: Plays from the French Napoleonic period. Though the site offers very little introductory, descriptive, or editorial text, the growing collection can be browsed or searched using specific criteria such as title, author, and subject.
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/cng/
Newton Amos Chandler was a prospector during the mid-nineteenth-century Gold Rush on the west coast of the United States. In a series of letters written to his wife Jane between 1855 and 1872, Chandler conveys the experiences and challenges faced by those pursuing wealth and opportunity during the Gold Rush. Subjects covered include westward expansion, racial and ethnic tensions, mining, and the fortunes and misfortunes of gold miners.
http://expositions.bnf.fr/carolingiens/index.htm
The National Library of France has developed a digital collection of their treasured holdings from the Carolingian era. The texts and images featured here shed light on politics, society, and culture in early France. Please note that interested users should be proficient in French as both sources and editorial information are provided only in French.
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/library/digital/main.htm
The library of the United States Department of Labor has digitized a selection of its holdings pertaining to the history of American labor. Featured items include labor-related publications, trade union materials, biographies, and statistics. All primary sources may be browsed or searched by specific criteria.
http://www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/2257.cfm
This website provides links to the digital projects created by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). The collections cover a wide range of subjects including: AIDS, physics, architecture, music, local politics, photography, World War II, and Arabic manuscripts. Users must click on the names individual collections to gain access to related content.
http://www2.roosevelt.edu/library/oralhistory/oralhistory.htm
This digital project is comprised of interviews with 68 individuals involved in Chicago’s twentieth-century labor movement. As a hub of industry and immigration, Chicago was a center of labor-related activism, and the interviews shown here provide a variety of perspectives on that critical struggle.
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collectionsonline/cornjose/
This digital collection presents the recently-digitized papers of visual artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972). The collection includes correspondence, personal writings, photographs, and works of art.
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/kanto/
This digital project focuses on the devastating natural disaster that struck Japan in 1923, known as the Great Kanto Earthquake. Western travelers shot photographs, collected newspaper clippings, and wrote home about the destruction they witnessed. The project highlights the aftermath of the earthquake but also shows a great deal about the relations between the West and the East during the period.
The website for the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center provides access to certain documents related to the life and work of the nineteenth American president. In addition to a wealth of biographical materials about Hayes, the site includes digitized diaries, letters, and obituaries, as well as scholarly works on the president.
http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib/cities/index.html
This website provides links to the digital collections created by the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. The collections cover topics as wide ranging as Afghanistan, urbanization, tourism, theatre, Golda Meir, and transportation. Users must click on the names of individual collections to gain access to related content.
http://www.atla.com/digitalresources/
This digital project is a collaboration by multiple theological seminaries, resulting in a searchable collection of materials related to Christianity. Materials include woodcuts, photographs, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, sermons, art, and architecture.
http://www.marygrove.edu/library/archives/ohp/revelly.html
This digital collection provides access to typed transcripts and MP3 files of interviews with elderly African-Americans in greater Detroit, Michigan. The interviews were conducted by undergraduate students at Marygrove College and primarily concern the subjects of race and racism during the era of segregation in America.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/alaskawcanadaweb/index.html
This digital collection showcases historic photographs of Alaska, the Western United States, and the Canadian provinces of Yukon Territory and British Columbia. Subjects covered by the collection include mining, community life, native peoples, the environment, and life during wartime. The collection can be searched by subject.
http://content.library.arizona.edu/collections/asdo/
This digital project provides access to a variety of documents and images concerning the city of Sonora, Mexico, which borders Arizona. Subjects covered include ranching, mining, race, crime, and government.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/feature/lapham/
Noted nineteenth-century Wisconsin scientist, Increase Lapham, acquired portraits of fellow scientists through the extensive correspondence they shared. This digital collection showcases those portraits, searchable by name or subject.
http://fermi.lib.uchicago.edu/
This digital collection highlights the life and work of scientist, Enrico Fermi, who oversaw the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in 1942. The work of Fermi and his team of scientists led to the development of the atomic bomb that was employed to end World War II. The project includes documents and images concerning Fermi’s groundbreaking career.
http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/Show?page=Home
This digital project provides access to all population reports for Britain, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland from 1801-1937. The collection includes reports from the census and registrar, as well as maps, correspondence, essays, and legislative texts pertaining to population concerns. These extensive holdings provide rich data on demography, economy, society, medicine, geography, and law in the nineteenth-century UK.
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/collections/mapsofafrica/
This digital collection showcases over one hundred historic maps of regions throughout Africa from the sixteenth through the twentieth century, along with brief explanatory notes on the features of each map.
http://digital-library.usma.edu/collections/
The digital collections of the United States Military Academy at West Point highlight the history of the school and its alumni, as well as other topics pertaining to military history and culture. The collections contain books, manuscripts, photographs, and multimedia components on a wide variety of subjects.
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
The British Library has digitized some of its most notable holdings for use by scholars and book enthusiasts. Among those texts available for viewing are the world’s oldest printed book, the first atlas of Europe, Da Vinci’s sketches, and Mozart’s diary.
http://www.bucknell.edu/x16337.xml
This digital project focuses on the covered bridges of Pennsylvania, especially those located in or near the Susquehanna River Valley. The project provides access to several hundred images captured by a faculty member at Bucknell University during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/6
New York’s American Museum of Natural History has long published the Anthropological Papers, in which noted scholars in the field have included their ethnographic findings. This digital collection makes available a selection of anthropological works published between 1907 and 2007, including works by Margaret Mead.
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/digital_image_collections/
Cambridge University has digitized images from a number of its most valued collections on topics ranging from math and science to poetry and religion. Note to users: The digitized version of Gutenberg’s Bible is available only to members of the Cambridge University community.
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/scg/
This digital project provides access to the “gradual” book of the spoken and sung liturgy used in Catholic masses to celebrate feasts from Maundy Thursday to the Vigil of Pentecost. In addition to liturgical and musical texts, the gradual is adorned with original artwork from sixteenth-century France, where the book originates. The project is searchable by 19 different fields, including title, day of the church year, date, and language.
http://ted.hul.harvard.edu:8080/ted/deliver/home?_collection=iohp
This digital project contains more than one hundred personal accounts given by modern Iranians. Most individuals were instrumental in the political, social, and cultural changes that shaped Iran between 1920 and 1980.