Digital Collections
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Digital Library of the Caribbean | The Digital Library of the Caribbean is a multi-institutional, international digital library. It contains over 4 million pages of newspapers, maps, photographs, and more. AAS has contributed to this digital library. |
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Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society | Digital collection of the Proceedings is available for new series volumes 1 (December 1880) through 118 (October 2008). This journal has been a source for AAS members' obituaries, articles, bibliographies, and tools for scholarship within the general area of American history and culture through 1876. The Proceedings ceased publication with volume 118, part 2, dated October 2008. |
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American Revolutionary Geographies Online | American Revolutionary Geographies Online is a new project led by the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library and the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. Leveraging new technology and the recent drive by many museums, libraries, and archives to digitize their collections, the portal collates digitized maps of North America made between 1750 and 1800 into a single user-friendly portal. |
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Evans Early American Imprint Collection | 5,000 fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 40,000 titles available in the online Evans Early American Imprints which is based on Charles Evans' comprehensive American Bibliography. |
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American Vernacular Music Manuscripts, ca. 1730-1910 | This is a collaborative project between the Center for Popular Music and the American Antiquarian Society to inventory, catalog, digitize, and provide web-based public access to their extensive music manuscripts collections. It concerns manuscripts inscribed before 1910 that are mainly American in provenance, with contents that are preponderantly vernacular in style. The digital collection includes 345 music manuscripts and is available on the Internet Archive. |
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New England's Hidden Histories: Colonial-Era Church Records | A digital project of the Congregational Library & Archives that digitizes and provides access to early New England Congregational church records from approximately 1620 to 1850 including letters, sermons, diaries, conversion narratives, church disciplinary cases, and account books. |
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HarpWeek | Issues of Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper, from 1857 to 1912. |
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Children's Literature and Culture | |
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American Ancestors | Online repository for more than 1.4 billion searchable names from America and beyond. |
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Abigail Adams Letters | Over 200 digitized letters written by Abigail Adams (1744-1818) , the wife of John Adams (1735-1826), the second president of the United States. |