These come from Ilana Gershon and Noah Berlastsky at The Pacific Standard. Here is a taste of their piece “Studying Humanities Teaches You How to Get a Job.” “If you’re studying interpretive dance, God bless you, but there’s not a lot...
Digital Public Library of America
“Primary Source Sets” from the Digital Public Library of America
Yesterday was the first of what I imagine will be many days in which I urge my “Teaching History” class at Messiah College to start putting together collections and links of teaching resources. The Digital Public Library of America has...
Digital Public Library of America Lands Large Grant
Press release from the DPLA website: BOSTON — The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announced today $594,000 in new funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to research potential sustainability models and to pursue the most promising option (or...
Historic Maps at the Digital Public Library of America
This article at The Atlantic calls our attention to the 38,000 historical maps from the collection of David Rumsey that can be found at the Digital Public Library of America. Here is a taste: More than three decades ago, David...
McLemee: The Digital Public Library of America Has More Work to Do
Last week we did a few posts on the launching of the Digital Public Library of America. This is an incredible resource that provides books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. […]
More on the Digital Public Library of America
Over at The Atlantic, Rebecca Rosen interviews Dan Cohen, the new director of the Digital Public Library of America. (You may recall our recent post on the opening of the DPLA). Here is a taste of the interview: What is […]
The Digital Public Library of America
It launched about an hour ago. Jonathan Wilson tells us more. Here is a taste of his post at The Junto: At noon Eastern today, the Digital Public Library of America will launch a beta version of its “discovery portal,” allowing...
National Archives To Donate 1.2 Million Digital Objects to Digital Public Library of America
National Archives Last week we did a post on Dan Cohen‘s move from the Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), where he will serve as Executive Director. […]