Digital Collections at Dickinson

Archives and Special Collections

• Dickinson College Chronicles. The annals of Dickinson College. Contains the Encyclopedia Dickinsonia.
• James Buchanan Resource Center. Includes several books on the life of James Buchanan, contemporary reviews of those books, Buchanan's published writings, and a selection of unpublished letters held by Dickinson College. An extensive bibliography and a detailed timeline of Buchanan's life is also available.
• Their Own Words. A collection of books, pamphlets, letters, and diaries, containing more than 23,500 pages of text, dating from the latter eighteenth through the early twentieth century.
• 19th Century American Newspapers. Provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
• Accessible Archives. Full-text access to a number of American 19th-century journals and newspapers. Special African-American, Civil War and Pennsylvania coverage (open access).
• American Civil War: Letters and Diaries. The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries contains more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs, to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war. This electronic collection includes 100,000 pages of re-keyed and indexed text, including 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscript material.
• American Memory Project. Distinctive, primary materials from the Library of Congress's Americana collection. Includes photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures.
• American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900. Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.