Pennsylvania

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American Wing at Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Painting by Mary Cassatt of a mother and child.

Project

Benjamin Franklin and the Pamphlet Wars

How early Americans waged their wars in print

Winter 2020

Civil War envelope showing a weeping woman being comforted by a soldier.

Project

The Photography of Teenie Harris

Magazine Article

Chester Tells Its Story to the Next Generation

Winter 2019

Portrait of Herman Melville on a book cover

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Melville's Marginalia Online

Browse the books American author Herman Melville read with this digitized collection of annotated books from his library.

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Leonard Bernstein: An American Life

Explore composer Leonard Bernstein’s life and career through his correspondence and interviews with those who knew and worked with him.

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American Icons: Appalachian Spring

In 1942, Aaron Copland was commissioned to write a score for the choreographer Martha Graham. Dance and music in America have never been the same.

Color illustration of Mount Vernon as seen from a bird's-eye view.

Magazine Article

Gardens of Presidents

Gardening was a pastime and passion for the Founding Fathers.

March/April 2015

Magazine Article

This End Up

The story of Henry Box Brown's escape from slavery.

May/June 2013

House with an attached porch and black roof, surrounded by pastures, fronting a river

Magazine Article

Picturing the Farms of Ohio and Pennsylvania

For a small price, Ferdinand Brader would draw a bird's-eye view of your homestead.

May/June 2015

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Leonard Bernstein: The Power of Music

Photograph of woman in between two doors that are ajar

Magazine Article

Executive Function with Laurie Zierer

Pennsylvania Humanities Council director Laurie Zierer works to close achievement gaps through reading, collaboration, and storytelling.

Winter 2017

Magazine Article

Tools of the Bookbinding Trade Can Be Found in Pennsylvania

Fall 2017

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Digital Publication of Records of Early English Drama

Magnifying glass over a dictionary page, focusing in on "science" and "technology"

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Long-Term Research Fellowships at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Long-Term Research Fellowships at the American Research Institute in Turkey

Photo of an Amish family walking down a road

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Amish Diversity and Identity: Transformations in 20th Century America

Individual with gloves on examining a large antique book

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PAFA Works on Paper and Archives Suite Construction Project

Photo of an open book of poetry, with a bunch of lilies laid on top of the book

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Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive

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The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

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Humanities Open Book Program - Temple University Press

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The Papers of the War Department 1784 to 1800

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The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Lifeguard teaching boy to swim, Highland Park swimming pool, 1951.

Project

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

Official portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower

Hank Greenberg and Joe DiMaggio at Yankee Stadium, September 1939.

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Chasing Dreams: Baseball & Becoming American

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The Valley of the Shadow Project

See the Civil War from the perspective of two American communities-- one Northern and one Southern-- through the letters, diaries, newspapers, census, and church records left by men and women in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.