Kutztown University Research Commons
The Kutztown University Research Commons is the University's open-source institutional repository that showcases our student and faculty research to the world. It also houses many digital files from the Kutztown University Archives which detail the history of the University from its beginnings as the Keystone State Normal School is 1866 through the present.
Digital Collections Featuring Kutztown's History
Digital Collections: Our back pages
Our digital collections spotlight fragile and rare pieces of history. Thanks to our partnership with the Keystone Library Network (KLN) we are able to share these one-of-a-kind documents and pictures with the world instead of letting them disappear.
If you want to know more about these digital archives, please feel free to contact University Archivist Susan Czerny or Cataloging and Metadata Librarian Michael Weber.
Featured Collections
Revolutionary street art: Prints from Oaxaca, Mexico
Kutztown's history in glorious vintage postcards
Lantern slides: Vivid (analog!) color from around the globe
KU's student newspaper, The Keystone, fully searchable
Kutztown Journal, German-language news from 1870-1874
Digital books: History rescued for a new generation
Kutztown's hometown newspaper, The Patriot, back to 1889
The Pennsylvania German heritage of our region