Digital Collections
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Native American Indians, 1645-1819 | More than 1,600 publications about the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and European settlers, featuring text exploration tools, author biographies, and suggested search paths for easy browsing and discovery. |
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Digital Public Library of America | The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) makes millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience. AAS contributes to the DPLA via the Digital Commonwealth. |
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Digital Commonwealth | The Digital Commonwealth brings together digitized materials from hundreds of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives across the state of Massachusetts. |
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Hawaiian Langauge Newspapers and Periodicals | Primary Sources Digital Library |
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Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries | This collection will bring together 105,000 pages of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts, Semantically Indexed and online for the first time. The collection is drawn entirely from the extensive holdings of the American Antiquarian Society. It currently contains over 102,000 pages. |
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American Children's Books | Over than 6,400 works for children, 1654-1819, featuring text exploration tools, author biographies, and suggested search paths for easy browsing and discovery. |
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The Acquisitions Table | A thriving acquisitions program allows the American Antiquarian Society curators to actively add material through gift and purchase. New acquisitions are periodically highlighted in the "The Acquisitions Table" section of Past Is Present, the AAS Blog. |
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Letters from Freedom | Because materials written by non-famous people of color from this period are scarce, the letters by twenty-two formerly enslaved students preserved at the American Antiquarian Society are rare survivors. This resource includes these letters written between 1863 and 1870 to Lucy and Sarah Chase, sisters who traveled to the South to teach in freedmen’s schools. |
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Early Caribbean Digital Archive | The Early Caribbean Digital Archive is an open access collection of pre-twentieth-century Caribbean texts, maps, and images. Texts include travel narratives, novels, poetry, natural histories, and diaries that have not been brought together before as a single collection focused on the Caribbean. |
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A Boy's Education Among the Reformers | The Journals of Edmund Quincy Sewall Jr., 1837-1840 Thoreau scholars have long been aware of the journal kept in Concord, Massachusetts during a period of seven weeks in 1840 when twelve-year-old Edmund Quincy Junior was attending John and Henry David Thoreau’s Concord Academy and boarding in the Thoreau household. |