Digital Public Library of America

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DPLA Ebooks

Ebook services are core to our commitment to a library-led digital future. We've redesigned our DPLA Ebooks site to showcase how we are helping libraries take control of acquisition and delivery and make more diverse materials easily available while advocating for the needs of libraries in the marketplace.

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Online Exhibitions

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Activism in the US

The Show Must Go On! American Theater in the Great Depression

Tragedy in the New South: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank

Torn in Two: Mapping the American Civil War

Primary Source Sets

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Shrinking the World: Pan American Airways in the Postwar Era

The Black Power Movement

Visual Art During the Harlem Renaissance

Fake News in the 1890s: Yellow Journalism

Beginnings of the American Red Cross

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Education

Educators and students explore our Primary Source Sets to discover history and culture through primary sources and ideas for classroom use.

Family Research

Genealogists use our search tools to find free materials for their family history research projects.

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Lifelong Learning

Lifelong learners enjoy browsing by topic and viewing Online Exhibitions to learn more about their interests.

Scholarly Research

Scholarly researchers use DPLA to find open access sources from archives across the country through a single portal.

If you’re new to DPLA, these research guides will give you a head start using our site. The guides reflect a few key activities that attract visitors to DPLA, but you can explore many other interests here too.

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DPLA News

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Addressing health misinformation with U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy
November 3, 2021
We are pleased to invite you to join Digital Public Library of America and Knight Foundation on November 9 at 2 pm ET for a virtual discussion on health misinformation…
Free Halloween Ebooks from DPLA
October 8, 2021
The DPLA Curation Corps invites you to get into the Halloween spirit with haunting reads from our collection of more than 10,000 free ebooks. All are available for instant download,…
DPLA expands board with four new directors
October 5, 2021
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) today welcomes four library and civic leaders to our board of directors: Joshua Frazier-Sparks, Director of Culture, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at Walmart;…