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EXPLORE The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music

Take a whistle-stop tour through American music history with this collection of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music, spanning 1780 to 1980.

EXPLORE other NEH-funded projects

Hank Greenberg and Joe DiMaggio
Chasing Dreams: Baseball & Becoming American
Archibald J. Motley Jr., The Octoroon Girl, 1925.
Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
Billy Strayhorn
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze
The American Revolution
Andrew Jackson, by Thomas Sully, 1824
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
The 1968 Project
The 1968 Project
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Greek warrior
Perseus Digital Library