Collections

On-Line Newspapers

The Lancaster County Historical Society is committed to providing our patrons with local primary resources through digital media.

The Lancaster County Historical Society is a participant in the Lancaster County Digitization Project, a consortium of institutions interested in digitizing the county's newspaper and manuscript collections.  Through this and other collaborative efforts we have been able to provide the several county newspapers in digital format.
 
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Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers

pacivilwarnewspapersPennsylvania Civil War Newspapers, a project at the Penn State University Libraries, allows users to search the full text of eleven newspapers from around the Commonwealth for the years 1850 to 1870.  The Lancaster County Historical Society is a part of this effort in making the contents of key newspapers available on the Internet. The historical society provided microfilm of The Columbia Spy so that it could be digitized

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Our Volunteers & Interns

Living History

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At the time of her internship Katelynn Stauffer will be a rising sophomore at Gettysburg College, where she will be majoring in History and Political Science with minors in Education and Civil War Era Studies. While interning at Wheatland she will be working on the creation of a new living history tour that will examine the war years at Wheatland.  She will be organizing volunteers and setting up a test run of the program for the public.

Building a Tour

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Faith McCarrick is a senior history major at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This semester she has been interning in both the archives and education departments at LancasterHistory.Org. In the archives department, she found herself creating box lists of manuscript groups that covered the history of the United Steel Workers Union in Lancaster and the writings of Jewish World War II veteran and journalist, Charles H. Kessler.  Read more...

Cultural Politics

becca

My name is Rebecca Macy and I am a rising sophomore at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. I am an American Studies major with a concentration in Cultural Politics. I have a great interest in civil rights, immigration, and the American Presidency. With a love of history, I am so excited to be working in my hometown this summer with LancasterHistory.org, Lancaster County's Historical Society & President James Buchanan's Wheatland!

Diplomacy

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Alex Trimble is a senior at Elizabethtown Area High School. His primary focus of study has been in history and social sciences. During his internship at the James Buchanan Wheatland mansion he will be conducting research on James Buchanan's diplomatic mission to Russia.

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