Revolutionary City: Digitizing the Hidden Stories of Philadelphia, 1774-1783

FAIN: ZDH-283774-22

American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, PA 19106-3309)
Patrick K. Spero (Project Director: May 2021 to present)

“Revolutionary City: Digitizing the Hidden Stories of Philadelphia, 1774-1783” will allow the American Philosophical Society and The Library Company of Philadelphia to continue to employ contingent early career scholars and permanent staff to digitize manuscript, pamphlet, newspaper, and broadside collections related to Revolutionary Philadelphia from their collections. This project will populate the Revolutionary City portal with digitized images and enhanced metadata for approximately 36,000 pages of original material in their collections. As the United States approaches its semiquincentennial (250th) anniversary in 2026, Americans will be looking online for materials to help them understand the nation’s founding principles, history, and democratic processes. The shared digital repository will offer scholars, teachers, students and the interested public the opportunity to learn diverse stories of the American Revolution—currently separated, obscured, and inaccessible in the archi