The Truth of the Matter: Week 3

This week in class, the question of digital archives arose.  Digital archives are like online repositories of various information (not just from originally electronic sources) that have been converted to digital files, usually for public use.  Digital archives range from legal files to census data to schoolbooks.

These archives can be useful for jogging your memory and helping you bring more detail to your stories--but you may simply just enjoy them as well.

Here is a list of digital archives that I found fairly easily and which you might find useful:

• The Pennsylvania State Digital Archives
• PA National Guard Veteran’s Card File, 1867-1921
• Civil War Veterans’ Card File
• Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File
• World War I Service Medal Application Cards
• Spanish American War Veterans’ Card File of United States Volunteers
• Mexican Border Campaign Veterans’ Card File
• Militia Officers’ Index Cards, 1775-1800
• The National Archives
• Use the search feature to find related materials
• The Internet Archive:  Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music, and Wayback Machine
• Hagley Digital Archives
• Advertisements
• Chronicling America
• Newspapers
• Xooxle Answers: National, State, & Local Newspaper Archives
• University of Pittsburgh Digital Collection