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History Research

Learn about Primary and Secondary Sources 
Primary Resources
  • Newspapers.com
     The largest online archive of historical newspapers, providing access to billions of digitized pages from thousands of papers worldwide, primarily dating from the 1700s to the 2000s.
  • Library of Congress
    The nation’s oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items. 
  • American Memory Project
    An Internet-based archive for public domain image resources, audio, video, and archived Web content. Published by the Library of Congress
  • Chronicling America
    A digital collection of historic American newspapers from 1860-1922.
  • Smithsonian
    Digital collections that include over 27,000 digitized books and manuscripts
  • The Gilder Lehrman Collection
    Online American History resources that includes over 60,000 primary sources.
  • The Avalon Project
    Yale Law School's documentations in law, history and diplomacy, 4000 BCE to the present.
  • American Journeys
    More than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration.
  • Digital Public Library of America
    Features over 7 million resources from libraries, archives, and museums
  • National Archives
    "The nation's record-keeper” houses general American documents, military service records and naturalization of immigrants. 
  • DocsTeachDocs
    Documents from 1754 to the present.
  • World Digital Library, Library of Congress
    World history topics, timelines, maps, and more interactives. Also includes sources in other languages.
  • The African American Registry
    An online database of secondary accounts of African-American history relating to the arts, business, education, entertainment, literature, military, politics, religion, sports and more.
  • Black History Month ProQuest Primary Sources
    Over 3,000 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom.
Secondary Sources