The Minnesota Digital Library recently added a set of oral history interviews with descendants of abolitionists who lived in Minnesota prior to the Civil War. They were shared by a new contributing organization called Project Get Outdoors.
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Submit your writing for the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL)'s creative writing contest! Using any item in MDL as a prompt, participants can write a fictional short story, poem, or other creative piece, and winners will be published in an online exhibit.
Explore Anoka County Library's newest addition to the Minnesota Digital Library.
The Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) recently digitized and uploaded a scrapbook documenting the University of Minnesota College of Forestry’s summer camp at Lake Itasca in 1912.
The Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) has published a new online exhibit - "The Threshing Crew: Community Supported Farming."
From August 2024 - February 2025, Minitex partnered with 12 organizations and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to add their open access digital images from the Minnesota Digital Library to Wikimedia Commons. 352,068 files were contributed to Wikimedia Commons, and participants enriched 62 Wikipedia articles, adding 81 images. To date, the images that were added to Wikimedia Commons have over 4 million views.
The Minnesota Digital Library is accepting applications to participate in its new project year, with focus on two special anniversaries.
The National History Day annual theme for 2025-2026 is “Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History.” Explore project topics with a new guide from the Minnesota Digital Library.
The Minnesota Digital Library has created a Minnesota Studies LibGuide that follows along with the chronological and thematic parts of the sixth grade social studies curriculum. It includes direct links to primary sources and curated exhibits to supplement your teaching activities.
The Minnesota Digital Library has recently published an online timeline on the history of photography, with highlights from our digital collections.
Historical content from Minnesota's cultural heritage organizations, all in one place