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This sweeping online resource is created from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s acclaimed Afro-Americana Collection—a collection started by Benjamin Franklin that steadily increased throughout its history, ultimately encompassing more than 12,000...

Created from the renowned holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Black Authors, 1556-1922 is the most complete and compelling collection of its kind. It offers more than 550 fully catalogued and searchable works by Black authors from the...

Created from the renowned holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920 is the largest and most significant digital collection of its kind. More than 1,200 fully cataloged and searchable books, pamphlets...

The subject of immigration has never been more visible in the news media than it is today. As defined in this collection, an immigrant is a person who voluntarily left his or her country-of-origin seeking refuge, freedom, or simply the hope of a...

The story of America’s Indigenous peoples is rich and varied — a complex tapestry of achievements, dislocations, occupations, resistance, forced migrations, upheavals, and triumphs that have shaped American society and the American identity...

More than half of America’s states began as territories. From the 1760s to the 1950s the United States of America expanded southward and westward, acquiring territories that spanned from Florida to California to Alaska. Before they evolved into...

The single most important archive of American government publications, the U.S. Congressional Serial Set is an incomparably rich source of primary and secondary material on the people, issues and events that shaped the United States. Spanning nearly...