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Welcome to worlds of change
Welcome to Worlds of Change, a collection of more than 700,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America. This material was digitized as part of a multi-year project, formerly known as Colonial North America at Harvard Library. Read about the project.
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Portals to the past: the exhibit at widener library
A selection of items from the collection were included in Portals to the Past, a physical exhibition that took place in Widener Library in 2019.
essays: scholarship on the collection
Essays provide additional context for the materials and suggest how the collection can be used to investigate a variety of topics. The authors provide different perspectives on how to dig deeper into the collection using a range of materials including lecture notes, ledgers, diaries and maps.
This scholarship was produced by Arcadia Fellows Alicia DeMaio, Matthew Gin, and Theresa McCulla.