American history reaches the digital era – in pictures

Dakota quillwork leather vest (1890-1899), Minnesota Historical Society. Part of the Minnesota Digital Library's exhibition, A History of Survivance: 19th century Upper Midwest Native American Resources in the DPLA
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Still from a home movie of a baseball game between African American employees of the Pebble Hill plantation and another neighbouring plantation, Thomas County, Georgia, 1919?. Pebble Hill Plantation Film Collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody awards collection, University of Georgia Libraries
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Benjamin Sewall Blake jumping, circa 1888. Francis Blake, photographer. From the Massachusetts Historical Society, part of the Digital Commonwealth. Used with permission
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Harvey Gantt being interviewed upon entering Clemson College as the first African American student in 1963. From the Clemson University photographs collection at Clemson University Libraries special collections
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Laura Clay and group marching for the Madison, Fayette, and Franklin Kentucky Equal Rights Association, at the Democratic National Convention in St Louis (undated). From the Laura Clay photographic collection (University of Kentucky special collections library)
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