Digital History Projects

Digital History Projects present history using new multi-media and technological tools.  Each project focuses on a theme.  Unlike documents in the Collections section, documents here are offered with historical context or interpretation.   Watch this area for new additions throughout 2012!

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Founded in 1775 at the Rising Sun Tavern in Philadelphia, Society for the “Relief for Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage,” the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) reorganized itself in the 1780s to include a third mission: “improving the...