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Two Hundred Years on the Erie Canal

American Empire

Battle on the Ballot: Political Outsiders in US Presidential Elections

Race to the Moon

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Cotton Gin and the Expansion of Slavery

Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust

Victorian Era

Immigration through Angel Island

Dutch New Netherland

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Save the Date: DPLAfest 2019 to take place in Chicago on April 17-18
July 11, 2018
The next DPLAfest and DPLA Network Day will take place at Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center.
DPLA launches Open Bookshelf, a Collection of Free Ebooks
June 21, 2018
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is pleased to announce the launch of Open Bookshelf, a digital library collection of popular books free to download and handpicked by librarians…
Plains to Peaks Collective Brings Colorado and Wyoming Collections to DPLA
June 5, 2018
We are pleased to announce that over 46,000 materials from the Plains to Peaks Collective, which represents Colorado and Wyoming, are now discoverable in DPLA. Check out highlighted collections, which…

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