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- Arts & Humanities36
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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society by maximizing access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge. Discover over 50 million (and growing) images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.
Search or browse by topic, partner, exhibitions, and primary source sets.
- Education: Educators and students explore DPLA Primary Source Sets to discover history and culture through primary sources and ideas for classroom use.
- Family Research: Genealogists use DPLA search tools to find free materials for their family history research projects.
- 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.
- Primary Source Sets: Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.