An exciting collaboration between the American Philosophical Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Library Company of Philadelphia, is changing the way future historians will be able to access historical collections. Kyle Roberts, Sabrina Bocanegra, and Bayard Miller tell us about the "Revolutionary City Portal" a ground-breaking one-stop portal into Philadelphia’s role in the American Revolution. This remarkable collaboration, and mining of metadata, will bring to life the people who brought on the American Revolution.