Research Guides: History: Web Resources

Web Resources

Free Digital Libraries
News Resources

Free Digital Libraries

The largest open-access (free) digital libraries are Google Books, the Hathi Trust Digital Library, and Europeana. Other major projects include the Library of Congress American Memory Project, Making of America (19th-century U.S. History), and the New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Google Books
HathiTrust Digital Library HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Europeana
American Memory
Making of America
The New York Public Library Digital Collections

Hundreds of smaller, regional digital libraries exist. For lists of the most significant resources, see:

American Memory: State Digital Resources
David Rumsey Map Collection
A great free resource for historical maps
Louisiana Digital Library
The Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library of more than 400,000 digital items from Louisiana archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories, making unique historical treasures accessible to students, researchers, and the general public in Louisiana and across the globe. The items in the Louisiana Digital Library are as diverse and interesting as the people and places in Louisiana, with photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more documenting the state’s history and culture.

News Resources

Newspapers and news broadcasts are excellent ways of experiencing and understanding history as it happened.

For an overview of available resources, see this database list:

News Databases

History

Web Resources

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