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American Music
African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest
African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest offers more than 1,000 fully searchable printed works critical for insight into African-American culture and life from the beginning of Jim Crow to World War I and beyond.
African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle
African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle provides nearly 1,400 fully searchable printed works essential for understanding the African-American struggle for identity from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of Jim Crow.
Alexander Street Press: Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera
Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera presents the dramatic imagery of nineteenth-century Americana as experienced from the social, military, and political perspectives.
America’s Historical Imprints
America’s Historical Imprints contains 3 collections and 2 supplements of books, pamphlets, broadsides and other scarce printed material.
American song sheets, slip ballads, and poetical broadsides
The Edwin Wolf catalog contains American song sheets, slip ballads, and poetical broadsides from 1850-1870.
Black Authors 1556-1922
Black Authors, 1556-1922, encompasses over 550 works written by black authors from various regions, including the Americas, Europe, and Africa. The collection covers an extensive range of genres, including personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, novels, essays, poems, and musical compositions.
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
Global Commodities includes a wide range of manuscript, printed and visual primary-source materials exploring the history of key commodities that changed the world.
Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)
The HABS/HAER surveys document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories.
In Her Own Right
A collaborative digitization project, In Her Own Right includes collections on women’s advocacy in moral reform, abolition, education, work, relief for the poor, healthcare, and women’s own rights from the Philadelphia area between 1820-1920.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
Collected by Lester S. Levy and donated to Johns Hopkins University beginning in 1976, the Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection comprises American sheet music from the 18th through 20th centuries.
The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia centers Philadelphia as a city and community in historical and future contexts.