Library of Congress guide to State Digital Resources.

World Digital Library.

Library and Archival Exhibits on the Web, by Smithsonian Libraries.

Books

Finding aids, Digital Book Index; NCLive ebooks, for NC library card holders.

• Internet Archive (specifically Genealogy) and Internet Archive Scholar to search research articles; Open Library.
• Google Books; Google Scholar, search articles and case law; Project Gutenberg; Hathi Trust.
• Digital Public Library of America.


• Genealogy Gophers, searches many collections of digital books.
• Books and microfilm from Allen County Public Library.
• Family History books at FamilySearch.
• Online Books Page, catalog at U. Penn.
• Ancestry ($); Heritage Quest, available through library.


• Documenting the American South.
• Digital Library of Appalachia, archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region.
• Online Library of the Revolutionary War, catalog of links.
• Core Historical Literature of Agriculture. Cornell. Books and journals.
• U. S. National Agricultural Library Digital Collections, NAL Special Collections.
• Forest History Society Research Portal.
• Home Economics Archive, "HEARTH". Cornell.
• Feeding America, 76 historic cookbooks at Michigan State U.
• Hagley Digital Archives, images, documents, and publications related to business and technology.
• National Academies Press.
• Perseus Digital Library, Tufts Univ. Emphasis on ancient classics, but has a Civil War collection
• US National Park Histories.
• Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law. Over 2,000 titles, includes every statute on slavery from every colony/state.
• British History Online. Includes Victoria county histories.
• Europeana.
• University of Michigan Digital Books, massive worlwide collection including Early English Books.
• Internet Sacred Text Archive. Religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric.


• Alabama Mosaic.
• Calisphere, California digital collections - mostly nonbook. Also Online Archive of California.
• Connecticut Digital Archive; Digital Collections from the state library, archives, and museum.
• Florida Heritage Collection. Includes FHQ. Univ. of Florida Digital Collections. Florida Memory.
• Digital Library of Georgia.
• See Bookmarks: Illinois.
• Iowa Digital Heritage Collections; Iowa Digital Library.
• Missouri Digital Heritage; State Historical Society.
• New Jersey Digital Highway.
• See Bookmarks: New York City & Brooklyn.
• See Bookmarks: North Carolina.
• SHAREOK, joint institutional repository for the University of Oklahoma Libraries (OU), Oklahoma State University Libraries (OSU), and the University of Central Oklahoma Max Chambers Library (UCO).
• South Carolina Digital Library; South Carolina University Libraries digital collections.
• Tennessee Virtual Archive.
• Portal to Texas History.
• Virginia Memory.


• ETHOS. UK electronic theses online. $.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations, a finding aid.

Periodicals

• Directory of Open Access Journals.
• JSTOR, limited free access for individuals.
• Google Scholar, scholarly articles.
• Transactions of the Royal Society.
• American Legion Digital Archive.

Newspapers

• Pay sites: Ancestry. Newspapers not included in Ancestry Library Edition; Genealogy Bank; Godfrey Library (19th Century US Newspapers and The London Times); NewspaperArchive.com; Newspapers.com; Accessible Archives; British Newspaper Archive, also available as part of a FindMyPast subscription; Irish Newspaper Archives.


• LoC list of online copies of Ayer's American Newspaper Directories.
• Ancestor Hunt, Newspaper Research Links, U. S., Canada, some others.
• A search engine for digital newspapers, Elephind.
• A list, Newspaper Archives, Indexes and Morgues from LoC.
• A directory, LDS Genealogy by state and the sub-topic Newspapers. Not related to FamilySearch.
• Newspaper digitization projects. Primarily retrospective; international.
• List of online newspaper archives, U. S. and international, at Wikipedia.

General:
• Chronicling America. 1777 to 1963.
• Google newspaper archive, titles alphabetically.
• Stars and Stripes, WW I. Also in Ancestry with WW II.
• Catholic News Archive. Includes the Catholic Transcript, Hartford, Connecticut.
• From several states and Sonora, Mexico, Historic Mexican & Mexican-American Press.
• Swedish-American newspapers.
• Foreign Language Press Survey, translations from foreign language newspapers in the Chicago area, 1855 - 1938.
• Newspaper Abstracts. Not full text, but something.
• Newspapers from Australia plus much more content.
• New Zealand newspapers.

By State:
• Alabama Civil War and Reconstruction Newspapers.
• Alaska Newspapers Index.
• California Digital Newspaper Collection.
• Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.
• Newspapers of Connecticut.
• Florida Digital Newspaper Library.
• Florida articles. 1500 articles from non-Florida newpapers and cover events in Florida between 1762 and 1885.
• Georgia. By regions.
• Illinois Digital Newspapers. Chicago newspapers.
• Indiana, Hoosier State Chronicles. Also other indexes at the Indiana State Library.
• A list of digitized Iowa newspapers. Digital Archives of Southeast Iowa.
• Historic Kentucky Newspapers and Kentucky Digital Newspapers.
• Maryland Digital Newspapers.
• No central collection, but here's a list of Massachusetts Online Historical Newspapers.
• Digital Michigan Newspaper Portal.
• Missouri Digital Heritage Newspapers and the State Historical Society Digital Newspapers.
• State Historical Society collection, Montana newspapers.
• Nebraska newspapers.
• Blog article: guide to available NY newspapers.
• New York Times. Browse by date.
• Fulton History, historical newspapers from NY State. Read search instructions; can be slow. Also an alternative search.
• New York State Historic Newspapers.
• Hudson River Valley Heritage Historical Newspapers.
• Brooklyn, New York, three papers.
• North Carolina Digital Collections: Newspapers.
• North Carolina Baptist Historical Collection: Obituaries from the Biblical Recorder, 1835-1877.
• Gaston County, North Carolina Newspapers and entries in Gaston Lincoln Biography & History Index.
• Ohio Memory, Ohio's Digitized Newspapers.
• Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive and PA Photos and Documents, many newspapers.
• A list of Rhode Island newspapers.
South Carolina: Historic Newspapers.
• Virginia Chronicle collection. Also Richmond Times [Virginia], 1860-1865.
P. S.:
• U. S. Newspaper Program, links for nationwide microfilming project.

Government and Legal Documents

• American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution, 1774-1776.
• Century of Lawmaking, U. S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875.
• Serial Set, portions. Also see Heritage Quest.
• American State Papers, 1789-1838.
• Papers of the War Dept..
• US GPO.
• Consource. Constitutional sources including state documents.
• Judyrecords, millions of court cases.
• GovernmentAttic.org, "interesting Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act."

This page last updated 31 July 2022.

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