Highlights of American History Digital Collections

Federated Collections

• JStor, www.jstor.org
• DPLA, http://dp.la/
• HathiTrust, http://www.hathitrust.org/
• Smithsonian Collections Search Center, http://collections.si.edu/search/
• Internet Archive, https://archive.org/

Library, Archive, Museum Collections

• Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina Library, http://docsouth.unc.edu/
• Library of Congress, American Memory,http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html, Chronicling America, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
• Denver Public Library Western History Collection, http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/
• Harvard University’s Open Collections, http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/
• California Digital Library, http://www.cdlib.org/
• Archives of American Art, http://www.aaa.si.edu/
• Duke University, Emergence of American Advertising, 1850-1920: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa/
• Henry Ford Museum, http://collections.thehenryford.org/

Non-Profit Collections

• Densho: Japanese American Legacy Project, http://www.densho.org/
• History Harvests, University of Nebraska, http://historyharvest.unl.edu/
• History Pin (also user-generated and federated), We are What We Do, http://www.historypin.com/
• Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/
• FamilySearch, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saintshttps://familysearch.org/

Commercial Subscription Collections

• ProQuest Historical Newspapers, http://www.proquest.com/products-services/pq-hist-news.html
• Alexander Street Press Online Collections, http://alexanderstreet.com/products/history/american-history

User-Generated Collections

• September 11 Digital Archive, RRCHNM, http://911digitalarchive.org
• Our Marathon, Northeastern University, http://marathon.neu.edu/
• Community of Gardens, Smithsonian Gardens, https://communityofgardens.si.edu/

Community-sourced Metadata or Collections Transcriptions

• What’s on the Menu?, New York Public Library, https://transcription.si.edu/
• Papers of the War Department, RRCHNM, http://wardepartmentpapers.org/
• Smithsonian Transcription Center, https://transcription.si.edu/
• DIY History, University of Iowa Libraries, http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/

Auction Sites

• Christie’s, http://www.christies.com/?sc_lang=en
• eBay, http://ebay.com

Data Sets and APIs

• Museum APIs: http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933420/Museum%C2%A0APIs
• Railroads and the Making of Modern America, Will Thomas, et al, Data,
  http://railroads.unl.edu/resources/
• GitHub Repositories: data from Geography of the Post, Cameron Blevins and Stanford Spatial History Lab, https://github.com/stanford-history/geographypost
• Examples of what can be done with an API, Brooklyn Collection Application Gallery, http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/api/docs/application_gallery; Cooper-Hewitt’s Collection Color History, http://dataclimber.net/blog/2014/1/19/cooper-hewitts-collection-color-history, Serendipomatic, http://serendipomatic.org/