History RESOURCES

Research Guides

Recommended Databases

Digital Archives

Library of Congress Digital Collections features historical photos, maps, newspapers, films, and more

Yale University Archive and visualization of 170,000 photographs taken between 1935 and 1943 by the U.S. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information  during the Great Depression Era

ProQuest Database of primary sources related to the Black Freedom Struggle in the United States

Movies & Videos

The National Screening Room is a project of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. The goal of this collection is to present to the widest audience movies from the Library's extensive holdings.

Newspaper Archives

Google News Archive provides free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, some of the news archives date back to the 18th century