The following digital projects and exhibits highlight many of the Record Groups and Manuscript Collections housed in the Special Collections and University Archives at Ä¢¹½tv. The collections represent prominent Pennsylvanians, people associated with the university, and important figures in American history. Many of the digital projects and exhibits are the product of student research.
- African Americans in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Resources on early African American settlements in the small coal mining communities of Western Pennsylvania.
- Elinor Gordon Blair Collection: Growing up on a College Campus, 1913-1927: Elinor Gordon Blair and Indiana State Normal School.
- Civil War Letters: 1861 to 1863 correspondence from Robert Alexander Lowry (1838-1862) and William Gustin Lowry (1836-1863) donated by Logan R. Moorhead (). Explore the following links to learn more about this family in the American Civil War. See the Civil War diary of their mother Roda Stone Lowry.
- Charles Darwin Collection: The Paul R. Hicks Memorial. Explore images and publications about naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), and learn about this publication available through the .
- Fausold Family Collection: This collection was created in 1984 when Dr. Martin L. Fausold (1921-2008) donated the papers of his father, Samuel Fausold, to the Special Collections and University Archives at Ä¢¹½tv. Samuel Fausold (1888-1948) served as president of Indiana State Teachers College from 1936 to 1939. The Fausold Family Collection has grown to include many Western Pennsylvania documents from the colonial era to the present, including correspondence, diaries, ledgers, memorabilia, photographs, publications, and scrapbooks. The collection contains the papers of the Honorable John Fausold (1808-1884) who served the State of Pennsylvania in numerous public offices for 55 years. Search the .
- Patricia Hilliard-Robertson: A tribute to Ä¢¹½tv's astronaut. Dr. Hilliard-Robertson graduated from Ä¢¹½tv in 1985 (see ).
- Indiana County in the Civil War: see digitized Civil War materials from the Ä¢¹½tv Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives, and the Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County. See also ; ; and donated by Dr. Earl and Ann Hunt).
- Ä¢¹½tv History: 1875 to the present.
- Ä¢¹½tv Publications: commencement programs, , student handbooks, , and yearbooks.
- Labor History Lectures by Dr. Irwin Marcus: Dr. Marcus is professor emeritus of the History Department at Ä¢¹½tv.
- Logan Moorhead Collection: This collection includes the Civil War letters that were written by brothers Robert Alexander Lowry and William Gustin Lowry, both of whom died during the Civil War, and the Civil War diary of their mother Rhoda Stone Lowry. These collections were donated by Logan Moorhead (1921-2017) see .
- Mary Harris "Mother" Jones: Mother Jones visited Indiana County, Pennsylvania, during the 1921 coal strike for unionization.
- Mining Injuries and Fatalities in Berwind-White Coal Mining Company Mines
- Norvelt in Westmoreland County and Penn-Craft in Fayette County, Pennsylvania: Subsistence Homestead Communities of the 1930s.
- : This is one of the earliest maps of Indiana County, and it was designed by David Peelor (1811-1895).
- Pennsylvania Coal Culture: articles, essays, primary sources, and websites about coal mining life in western Pennsylvania.
- Photographs and Images: Historic images and photographs of Ä¢¹½tv, Indiana County, and western Pennsylvania.
- Remembering the 1906 Strike for Union in Windber, Pennsylvania. On April 2, 1906, as many as 5,000 Windber area miners publicly demonstrated their desire to join the United Mine Workers of America.
- Rhoda Stone Lowry Civil War Diary: donated by Logan R. Moorhead (1921-2017) see .
- John P. Saylor: Conservationist in Congress. Congressman Saylor (1908-1973) represented Western Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 until his death.
- Windber Miners' Strike for Union, 1922-1923.