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Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

A History of US Public Libraries

Quack Cures and Self-Remedies: Patent Medicine

Best Foot Forward: The Shoe Industry in Massachusetts

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Stonewall and Its Impact on the Gay Liberation Movement

The Equal Rights Amendment

Mormon Migration

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Environmental Preservation in the Progressive Era

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DPLAfest 2019 Wrap Up
April 30, 2019
Re-cap what we heard or review what you missed at DPLAfest 2019 with this one-stop guide to the news, notes, and other materials shared during the conference.
New collaborative effort to develop a national digital ebooks platform for libraries announced
April 17, 2019
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), The New York Public Library (NYPL), and LYRASIS are pleased to announce a new collaboration to help provide all public libraries with a…
DPLA Welcomes Connecticut Digital Archive
March 6, 2019
We are excited to announce that over 75,000 new items from Connecticut Digital Archive are now discoverable in DPLA. Connecticut Digital Archive, a program of the University of Connecticut Library,…

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