Welcome to the Digital Public Library of America! They are bringing together information from America’s archives, libraries, and museums into one location where you can access it from around the world for free.
The site is home to 40,708,413 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.
When you arrive at the site, you’ll notice a great big search box front and center, if you’d like to get started searching.
If you’d rather poke around the site without doing a search, you could click on Browse by Topic. Click on New? Start Here for a helpful guide that explains how to use the site.
Or scroll down and click on Online Exhibitions. Clicking into this section will allow you to browse all the digital exhibitions that they have at the moment. The topics range from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic to Political Outsiders in Presidential Elections to a history of women pilots.
This is such a cool way to experience archival, library, and museum holdings, go check it out for yourself today by clicking the link below: