Digital collections
Google Scholar
Search for academic publications: Follow citations (look up authors or the works they cited!)
Google Books Search
Previews or full text of books may be available here: Search for kewords within text
Google News Archive
Google Archived NewspapersBrowse titles
Search old newspapers (think about date, location, and event)
- Google Advanced News SearchSearch by location and date
- Google Cultural Instituteexhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world. Check out "Historic Moments" for online exhibits.
Museums and Archives
- Digital Public Library of AmericaPublication Date: April 18, 2013Search thousands of texts, images, audio files, video files, and other resources digitized by libraries and other organizations in the United States.
Where is your ideal location for primary source information (a city, state, or country? library, museum or archive? university?)
- World Digital LibraryPrimary materials from countries and cultures around the world (focus on UNESCO member countries). Free of charge and in multilingual format.
- Opening History:U.S. History Resources from Libraries, Museums, and Archives
- Voice of the Shuttle: U.S. HistoryCollection of history resource links, categorized and organized (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Vincent Voice LibraryMichigan State University - audio library dating back to 1888
- Archive of CaliforniaThe Online Archive of California (OAC) provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.
- Archive.orgsearch video, audio, music and text
- Hathi TrustHathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than 90 partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide.
- Eurpoeanacheck out exhibits!The European Library is the library aggregator for Europeana, and part of the Europeana family of services.The European Library offers access to the collections of national and research libraries in 46 countries. Researchers can cross-search over 200 million records, including over 24 million pages of full-text content and 10 million digital objects.