History, Genealogy & Archives
A2A - Access to Archives A2A allows you to search and browse for information about archives in England, dating from the 900s to the present day.
_______________________ ABZU : Guide To Resources For The Study Of the Ancient Near East Searchable site providing access to the increasing amount of data on the web dealing with the ancient cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and other lands of the region.
_______________________ Accessible Archives Contains the full text of primary source material from 18th & 19th century American periodicals and newspapers.
_______________________ Africa Research Central : a Clearinghouse of African Primary Sources Gateway to the archives, libraries, and museums with important collections of African primary sources.
_______________________ African American Biographical Database Biographical information for more than 30,000 African Americans.
_______________________ Alaska & Polar Periodical Index The index cites articles in English about Alaska, northern Canada, northern Scandinavia, the Russian Far East, and Antarctica.
_______________________ Alternative Press Index & Archive Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
_______________________ America : History and Life Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
_______________________ America's Historical Newspapers - Series I, II, III Americas Historical Newspapers features full text cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers published in 50 states and the District of Columbia.
_______________________ American Civil War Research Database Contains information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs.
_______________________ American Civil War: Letters and Diaries The collection includes approximately 100,000 pages of published memoirs, letters and diaries from people living in the civil war era.
_______________________ American County Histories Database Part of Accessible Archives, American County Histories to 1900 contains thousands of pages of text, plates and maps from counties in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
_______________________ American Memory Library of Congress gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
_______________________ American Periodicals Series Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900.
_______________________ American State Papers, 1789-1838 Contains the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838.
_______________________ Ancestry Library Edition With more than one and a half billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists, primary-source document images (including the US Federal census) and a variety of genealogical research features.
_______________________ Annals of American History Contains primary source materials on the history of the United States, including texts, still images, audio and video files.
_______________________ Année Philologique L'Annee philologique contains citations and abstracts covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity.
_______________________ Archival Finding Aids (Library of Congress) Provides links to all the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids for various collections at the Library of Congress.
_______________________ Archival Research Catalog (ARC) ARC is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.
_______________________ Archive Finder Directory describing over 200,000 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
_______________________ ArchiveGrid An index to historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.
_______________________ Archives de France Publiques à des fins administratives, civiques et scientifiques et oriente leur mise en valeur culturelle.
_______________________ Australian Historic Records Register The AHRR is a guide to sources on Australian social, economic, business, labour and cultural history at the local level.
_______________________ Avalon Project Digital primary source documents selected by the Yale Law School relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
_______________________ Bartleby.com Project Bartleby is a full text database of quotations, verse, and reference works from over 100 sources.
_______________________ BEOnline Plus Free Internet resources selected and annotated by The Library
of Congress reference staff
- Business and Economics Web sites
- Humanities and other Social Sciences Web sites available from Alcove 9
- International Resources Web sites available from Portals to the World
- Science and Technology Web sites
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_______________________Biography and Genealogy Master Index An index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2,700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
_______________________ Black Americans in Congress Contains biographical profiles of current and former African-American Members of Congress.
_______________________ Black Thought and Culture Provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975.
_______________________ BOPCRIS : Unlocking Key British Government Publications Search and browse information in over 24,000 documents from the the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS).
_______________________ Brepolis Medieval Bibliographies Online The leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (400-1500) providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.
_______________________ Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841 - 1902 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, founded in 1841, was one of the most widely read afternoon newspapers in the United States during the Civil War.
_______________________ Canadian Encyclopedia The Canadian Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work on all subjects relating to Canada.
_______________________ Chinese Cultural Revolution Database Compilation of historical resources from an abundance of publications, both official and unofficial, which appeared during the Cultural Revolution undertaken by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
_______________________ Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Contains more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910.
_______________________ CIA Electronic Reading Room Search for previously released Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents covering a wide range of policy areas.
_______________________ Civil Rights Digital Library Includes voices and images from the civil-rights movement featuring hours of historical news footage showing such events as the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock and Martin Luther King Jr accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.
_______________________ Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Provided by the National Park Service, CWSS contains facts about soldiers who served on both sides during the Civil War.
_______________________ Comintern : Electronic Archives of the Communist International (Access from European Reading Room Only)
The Comintern Archive contains original documents from over 35 communist and left-socialist parties, together with other international organizations from 21 different countries.
_______________________ Compilation of Presidential Documents The collection consists of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents and the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents which are the official publications of materials released by the White House Press Secretary.
_______________________ Country House Database A listing of country houses in the British Isles from the late medieval period to ca 1850, together with an index to all the families so far traced as having occupied them.
_______________________ CQ Online Editions: Historic Documents Series Search or browse by year or topic the Congressional Quarterly Historic Document Series containing more than 2,500 primary sources covering events around the world.
_______________________ Credo Reference : History Includes the full text of over 2 dozen history sources covering all historical time periods.
_______________________ Declassified Documents Reference System Provides full-text access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents.
_______________________ Department of Transportation Digital Special Collections The DOT library has digitized numerous collections relating to airlines, trains, and other modes of transportation.
_______________________ Dictionary of Canadian Biography A collection of authoritative biographies portraying noteworthy Canadians.
_______________________ Digital National Security Archive DNSA contains primary documents central to United States foreign and military policy since 1945 obtained by the National Security Archive.
_______________________ Documenting the American South DocSouth is a collection of books, manuscripts, and other sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
_______________________ Dolley Madison Digital Edition Contains close to 2,500 letters to or from Dolley Madison from 1788 to June 1836.
_______________________ E-Journals in History & Archaeology Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in History & Archaeology.
_______________________ Early American Imprints, Series I Evans 1639-1800 Full-text of more than 36,000 printed works covering American history and literature thru the colonial period up to the eighteenth century.
_______________________ Early American Imprints, Series II Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819 Shaw-Shoemaker Early American Imprints provides the full-text to 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides covering all aspects of American life in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.
_______________________ Early British Periodicals Contains the full text of hundreds of periodicals detailing everyday British life from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
_______________________ Early English Books Online EEBO contains digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
_______________________ Echo Catalogues, annotates, and reviews sites on the history of science, technology, and industry.
_______________________ Eighteenth Century Collections Online ECCO contains digital images of 150,000 books, broadsides, pamphlets, sermons, sheet music, and ephemera published during the 18th Century.
_______________________ Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative An online catalog of research findings and other shared resources, the
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative was formed to encourage the sharing of data among researchers who emphasize the relationships between place, time and topic in the study of culture and history.
_______________________ Evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850-1920 The Evolution of the Conservation Movement documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage.
_______________________ Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
_______________________ Footnote Contains primary source documents from the holdings of the United States National Archives relating to all aspects of American history, from the Revolutionary War, to the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents.
_______________________ Foreign Relations of the United States This series presents the official documentary historical record of major United States foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
_______________________ FreeBMD FreeBMD aims to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales for the period 1837-1983.
_______________________ Freedom's Journal Full text of the newspaper Freedom's Journal, which provided international, national, and regional information on current events and contained editorials declaiming slavery, lynching, and other injustices.
_______________________ German Exile Press 1933-1945 Contains journals from the holdings of the German Exile Archive in Frankfurt/Main and from the collection of the Exile Literature, Leipzig during the NAZI era.
_______________________ Gerritsen's Women's History Covers 4 centuries (1543-1945) of monographs and periodicals reflecting the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights.
_______________________ Gnomon Online Online index to journals and series in classics and archaeology.
_______________________ Guide to History on the Web Searchable and indexed database of more than 5,000 United States and world history sites.
_______________________ Guide to Library of Congress Microform Collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division Browsable guide to over 7 million pieces in the Library's vast and various microform collections, representing global information ranging from human prehistory to unidentified flying objects.
_______________________ Gutenberg-e Scholarly e-book collection containing revisions of prize-winning dissertations.
_______________________ HarpWeek Contains full text issues of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912), the leading American illustrated magazine of its day, covering political, military, social, and cultural stories.
_______________________ HarpWeek Features Contains illustrations and the full text of specialized collections from Harpers Weekly and other sources chronicling American social, political, and economic history of the 19th century.
_______________________ Heritage Quest A growing collection of research material for tracing family history and American culture.
_______________________ Historic Government Publications from WWII Search or browse a collection of over 300 United States government documents produced during World War II.
_______________________ Historical Abstracts Contains annotated references to books, articles, and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
_______________________ Historical Annual Reports ProQuest Historical Annual Reports covers over 800 companies and contains digital reproductions for more than 43,000 reports.
_______________________ Historical Census Browser Data describing the population and economy of US states and counties from 1790 to 1960.
_______________________ Historical Directories A digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919.
_______________________ Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights Contains digital publications from the United States Commission on Civil Rights, an independent, bipartisan agency charged with monitoring federal civil rights enforcement.
_______________________ Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition A compendium of statistics from over 1,000 sources containing over 37,000 data series and covering the social, economic, and political life of the United States.
_______________________ Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 Contains annual, time-series data with national coverage on almost any aspect of United States economics, population or infrastructure since the government began recording statistics.
_______________________ History Cooperative Full text of recent issues (1999- ) of over a dozen history journals.
_______________________ History of Science, Technology, and Medicine The International bibliography of history of science, technology, and medicine describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields.
_______________________ History Reference Online ABC-CLIO History Reference contains the full text of over 600 books focusing on United States and world history, current issues, politics, and geography.
_______________________ House of Commons Parliamentary Papers HCPP contains the full text of all sessional papers issued by the House of Commons, including Bills, Reports of Royal Commissions, Reports of Select Committees, Accounts and Papers, and Command Papers.
_______________________ Humanities E-Book ACLS Humanities E-Book Project contains hundreds of full text works of major importance in history, area studies, and the humanities.
_______________________ In the First Person Index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.
_______________________ IndexCat The Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office (Index-Catalogue) is a bibliography for materials covering the history of medicine, history of science, and clinical research.
_______________________ Internet Sources on Local History and Genealogy Links to public internet sites for Catalogs of Genealogical Libraries and Collections and Genealogical, Archival, and Historical Resources.
_______________________ Iter Gateway to the Renaissance and Middle Ages Covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
_______________________ Jane's.Com Provides full text access to Jane's research in defense, terrorism, market intelligence, national security and transportation.
_______________________ Jewish Data Database The database contains more than 170,000 records about Jewish history and genealogy.
_______________________ JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II III, IV, Life Sciences, Biological Sciences, Complement and Health & General Science JSTOR is a collection of full-text, keyword-searchable academic journals dating back to the late 17th century.
_______________________ Land Patent Search The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), General Land Office (GLO) site provides access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States.
_______________________ LexisNexis Access to Primary Sources in US History A database of essential sources in African American Studies.
_______________________ Literaturdokumentation zur Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas Documentation of Literature on the History of East Central Europe provides citations to monographs, articles in journals and collective works on the history of East Central Europe.
_______________________ Making of America : Cornell Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
_______________________ Making of America : Michigan Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
_______________________ Making of Modern Law : Legal Treatises 1800 - 1926 Searchable full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises containing more than 21,000 works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more.
_______________________ Making of Modern Law : Trials 1600 - 1926 Contains precedent-setting transcripts of cases covering constitutional and historical issues.
_______________________ Making of the Modern World 1450 - 1850 Provides the full text of more than 61,000 books and scores of serials covering economic and business literature published from 1450 through 1850.
_______________________ Moving Here : 200 Years of Migration to England Search the database of digitised photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items from 30 local and national archives, museums and libraries which record migration experiences of the last 200 years.
_______________________ Mundus Gateway to Missionary Collections in the United Kingdom Contains descriptions of more than 400 collections accumulated in Britain by individuals and societies engaged in the overseas missionary movement between the 18th and 20th centuries.
_______________________ National Archives Access to Archival Databases (U.S.) The AAD System provides online searching to government records in more than 350 databases created by over 20 Federal agencies.
_______________________ National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom Contains the records of the central government and the courts of law.
_______________________ National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections NUCMC is a database of over 500,000 records describing archival and manuscript collections in research libraries, state and federal agencies, museums, and historical societies throughout the world.
_______________________ Nestor: Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas Nestor is an international bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields.
_______________________ New England Ancestors Resources and databases of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
_______________________ Nineteenth Century Searchable database of more than 25,000 separate titles of English-language works on microfiche first published between 1801-1900 and available at the Library of Congress.
_______________________ Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain.
_______________________ Nineteenth Century Masterfile 19th Century Masterfile contains more than 60 core subject indexes to periodicals, books, newspapers, patents, and US and UK government documents covering the early 1700's to 1906.
_______________________ Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Covers 19th Century literature and culture, empire, feminism, the history of the book, the creative and performing arts, sport and leisure, science and medicine, the professions, and all aspects of nineteenth-century life.
_______________________ Nineteenth Century US Newspapers Digital Archive Contains primary source newspaper content from nearly 250 American newspapers published during the 19th century.
_______________________ North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories contains more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories.
_______________________ North American Indian Thought and Culture Contains biographies, autobiographies, oral histories, reference works, manuscripts, and photographs presenting the life stories of American Indians and Canadian First Peoples.
_______________________ North American Women's Letters and Diaries Full-text of diaries, journals, and letters written by 632 women visiting or living in North America.
_______________________ Norway in America Thor M Andersen bibliography covering all areas related to emigration from Norway to North America (United States and Canada) and Norwegian immigrants in North America up to 1930.
_______________________ OAIster Search for full text collections of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources.
_______________________ Obituary Daily Times The Obituary Daily Times is an index of published obituaries across the world.
_______________________ Online Archive of California Contains about 1,000 texts, including transcripts of oral histories, personal narratives, letters, press releases, newspaper articles, and other types of documents.
_______________________ Oral History Online Oral History Online provides indexing to almost 2,000 collections of Oral History in English from around the world.
_______________________ ORB Encyclopedia for Medieval Studies Browsable full text encyclopedia of the middle ages focusing on the Early, High, and Late periods as well as sections on medieval Slavic/Russian, religion, languages and linguistics, and culture.
_______________________ Our Roots : Canadian Local Histories Database Contains hundreds of Canadian local histories and records.
_______________________ Oxford African American Studies Center AASC contains over 7,500 articles as well as primary source documents, images, maps, charts and tables, and timelines covering the African American experience.
_______________________ Oxford Reference Online : Humanities & Social Sciences Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.
_______________________ Oxford Scholarship Online Contains the full text of over 1,100 Oxford University Press books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.
_______________________ Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 The database contains 55,000 documents covering the Early Republic, from the handling of Indian affairs, pensions and procurement to the nature of the first American citizens’ relationship with their new Federal government.
_______________________ Periodicals Index Online PIO (formerly Periodicals Contents Index ) indexes millions of articles published in 4,698 periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, some as far back as 1770.
_______________________ Perseus Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece A multimedia interactive database designed to facilitate the study of archaic and classical Greece and to expand the ways in which ancient Greek literature, history, art, and archaeology can be examined.
_______________________ PERSI Index Periodicals Source Index (PERSI) is a comprehensive subject index covering more than 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800.
_______________________ Picturing America Provides high-quality reproductions and images of notable American art.
_______________________ Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834 Fully searchable texts detailing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
_______________________ ProQuest Historical Newspapers Offers full-text and full-image articles from the Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, Pittsburgh Courier, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, dating back to their first issue (this search also includes the American Periodical Series).
_______________________ Public Documents Masterfile Public Documents Masterfile is a comprehensive index of federal, state, local, and some international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication.
_______________________ Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Contains the compilations of Presidential messages, papers, writings, addresses, and remarks of a public nature beginning in 1992 with the George HW Bush Admiminstration.
_______________________ Readers' Guide Retrospective Provides access to nearly 100 years of citations from more than 500 leading popular periodicals and magazines.
_______________________ Retrospective Indexes from Wilson Search the Wilson Applied Science & Business, Art, Humanities, Legal, Readers' Guide, and Social Sciences Retrospective Indexes (1890 - 1982), as well as Bibliographic Index Plus, simultaneously.
_______________________ Roman Law Library Collection of Roman laws (Latin texts), with some accompanying commentary and background information.
_______________________ Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British & Irish History The Royal Historical Society Bibliography is a database containing 350,000 records on British and Irish history, including relations with the empire and Commonwealth during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.
_______________________ Sabin Americana 1500-1926 Sabin Americana contains books, pamphlets and other documents about society, politics, culture, religious beliefs, and contemporary opinions for North, Central and South America, the Arctic and Antarctica and the West Indies.
_______________________ ScotlandsPeople ScotlandsPeople is the official online source of parish register, civil registration, census and wills & testaments records for Scotland.
_______________________ Scottish Documents Provides access to a fully searchable index of over 520,000 Scottish wills and testaments dating from 1500 to 1901.
_______________________ SPRILIB : A Polar and Glaciological Bibliographic Database The Scott Polar Research Institute Library (SPRILIB) databases cover the literature relating to the Arctic and Antarctic published in a wide range of languages.
_______________________ Time Magazine Archive Index Contains citations and brief abstracts for articles that appeared in Time Magazine from 1923 onward.
_______________________ Times (London) Digital Archive Contains facsimile images of every issue of the "world’s newspaper of record" – The Times of London – from 1785 through 1985.
_______________________ United States Congressional Serial Set The United States Congressional Serial Set contains all the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the US Senate and House of Representatives from the 15th Congress to the 87th Congress, 2nd session, 1817 - 1962 (Serial Set Volumes 1 - 12427).
_______________________ United States Congressional Serial Set Maps Digital Collection The Serial Set Maps Digital Collection ranges from the great exploratory surveys and battlefield maps of the 19th Century, to water resources, weather, wilderness, public works, and Army Corps of Engineers maps extending through the 1960s.
_______________________ United States Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832 - 1978 A collection of over 350,000 full-text Supreme Court documents covering more than 150,000 distinct cases.
_______________________ Valley of the Shadow : Two Communities in the American Civil War The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War.
_______________________ WAO : World Affairs Online World Affairs Online is one of the largest social science databases in Europe, currently containing over 665,000 references, mainly journal articles, book chapters, hearings, and grey literature.
_______________________ Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 Author index to articles published in the 19th century, including biographical information, pseudonyms used, and bibliography of articles written.
_______________________ Windows on the Past Grouping of selected historical materials hosted by the Cornell University Library which have been digitally scanned and are available for online browsing and searching.
_______________________ Women and Social Movements in the U.S. WASM includes tens of thousands of primary documents and images focusing on women's historical developments in the United States.
_______________________ Word on the Street The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides printed between 1650 and 1910.
_______________________ World of Maps Guide to locating maps, spacial data and GIS on the Internet.
_______________________ World Vital Records An international genealogy database containing more than 1 billion records from more than 45 countries.
_______________________ Yizkor Book Database Database containing over 1,000 English translations of texts of Yizkor books (memorial books) of Jewish communities in Eastern and Central Europe destroyed in the Holocaust.
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