History Research Guide: Online & Primary Sources

Search historical newspapers. Not every year is included.

Contains over 600 articles, over 60 ebooks, and links to almost 6,000 web sites dealing with a wide range of topics within the discipline of history. Emphasis is on primary sources.

Digitized collections of libraries and research institutions around the world.

Fordham's Internet Modern History Sourcebook provides links to thousands of primary sources online for the Reformation and later. Collections are organized by place, time period, and topic.

Interview sessions aimed at preserving and sharing humanities stories through oral histories.

Features media, exhibitions, images, books, and government documents

Getty Open Content: Public domain art images from Getty collections.

Primarily historical images organized into 18 categories, including Women, Science, Cities, Natural World, Science, and more.

Yale's digital collections, including images from the Peabody Museum, Center for British Art, University Art Gallery, Library Map Collection, and Walpole Library Prints and Drawings. Item records clearly indicate when an object/image is public domain material and available for open access and use without license fees.

Asister project to The Public Domain Review, and was launched with more than 10,000 images to start and more to be added every week. It offers “hand-picked highlights from hundreds of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, (and) also functions as a database of images featured” in The Public Domain Review itself

Online primary sources from the fall of Rome to the Reformation

Online primary sources on the Mediterranean region until the fall of Rome

Thousands of digitized British manuscripts and books ranging from early English history to the modern era

Varied primary sources on Europe covering a wide variety of time periods and source types

Provides information on nearly 35,000 slaving voyages.

The UN Archives Geneva platform gives access to the fonds and collections managed by the United Nations Library and Archives in Geneva, including the archives of the United Nations in Geneva, the League of Nations (1919-1946), international peace movements (from 1870), and private papers.

Al-Bab aims to introduce non-Arabs to the Arabs and their culture by seeking out points of interaction with other cultures.

The Latin American Web Archiving Project (LAWAP) seeks to capture, preserve, and provide access to a variety of Web resources from throughout Latin America. The primary focus of the collections to date has been government documents and political expression.

Digital library focusing primarily on Ancient Greece and Rome.

Archives New Zealand holds around 21,000 reels of film and 1000 videotapes. The majority of these are from the New Zealand National Film Unit which made government funded films from 1942 until 1989.

Digital collection that "consists chiefly of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War.

Historic collections from Ohio including:
-Archaeological Atlas of Ohio
-Greek & Latin Inscriptions
-Historic Maps of Akron & Summit County, Ohio
-National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
-Sanborn Historic Maps

The Vault is the new FOIA Library, containing 6,700 documents and other media that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office

Large collection of archival images ranging from the Civil War to NASA photo collections

Features media, exhibitions, images, books, and government documents

Over 1,100 digitized American magazines, journals, and newspapers of historical significance.

Library of Congress's collection of 25 newspapers printed from 1900-1910.

Over 20,000 historical maps from around the world, with focus on North America and South America.

Maps and text description of the creation and changes in the size, shape, and location of every county in the fifty United States and the District of Columbia.

Political cartoons from Harper's Weekly and other publications.

Digitized issues of Harper's Weekly that are both indexed and full-text searchable. Dates range from the Civil War era to Reconstruction (1857-1871).

The World War II Military Situation Maps contains 416 maps and 115 reports showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945. Starting with the D-Day Invasion, the maps give daily details on the military campaigns in Western Europe, showing the progress of the Allied Forces as they push towards Germany.

Collection of digitized documents released by the government during World War II.

Includes exhibitions and educational resources related to the Holocaust

Preserves the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II.

Individually maintained website that provides links to internet sites on Native Americans.

The collection currently includes "Documents Relating to the Negotiation of Ratified and Unratified Treaties With Various Indian Tribes, 1801-1869" and the "Office of Indian Affairs, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs." Includes instructions to treaty commissioners, reports, letters, and in some cases copies of the treaties.

Includes images, texts, and sound/video clips.