Digital Public Library of America resources

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) shares more than 44 million digital items via their partner organizations. This aggregated collection brings together materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions from across the country and makes this content available in a single discovery experience. DPLA is also a National History Day partner.

DPLA's National History Day page

Go to the National History Day page for information on this year's theme, links to primary source sets.

Primary Source Sets

Primary Source Sets explore topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions are stories of national significance drawn from source materials in libraries, archives, and museums across the United States.

Topic Searches

Browse by Topic to explore highlights from libraries, archives and museums collections from across the United States, organized into easy-to-navigate topics.

My Lists

Create a My List to save your searches and build a list of resources to use in your History Day project. Note: this list is browser specific - to view your list, open the browser you used to create the list.


Explore more of the exhibit using the page links below.