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Few physical libraries can match the vast collection of volumes on the Internet. It can be difficult, however, to dig deep into these online libraries. This session will help you find documents relating to your families and the places they lived. Sample sites accessible from your home Internet Archive From hundreds of libraries, scans of all of the books that are officially out of copyright Internet Archive Wayback Machine To recover files from old sites Open Library More than a million free titles HathiTrust Digital Library One of the largest mass digitization projects, with more than five million book titles. Google Books Mass digitization project features full access to material that is out of copyright. JSTOR A "scholarly journal archive" with selected scholarly journals back to the first date of publication up to recent years. Europeana A vast project digitizing and archiving online the contents of European museums and archives. European Library Tying in with Europeana, with quick access to 48 national libraries. Manuscripts Online Written culture 1000 to 1500 Trove -- National Library of Australia More than 300 million Australian and online resources, including books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, diaries and letters, and more. Fulton History You don't have to run a big library to have an impressive website -- you just need to be passionate. Site-specific Google Search Enter your search term, plus "site:" followed by the URL of the site you want to search. Sample sites accessible at institutions Early English Books Online (EEBO) Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Early European Books (EEB) Early American Imprints America's Historical Newspapers The American West American State Papers, 1789-1838 American Broadsides and Ephemera Discovering American Women's History Online North American Women's Letters and Diaries British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries Defining Gender, 1450-1910 Vogue Archive First World War Personal Experiences House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 19th and 20th Centuries London Low Life Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive State Papers Online: Government of Britian 1509-1714 Newspapers (Accessible through institutions or on an individual basis) New York Times 1851-1922 Washington Post Canadian Newsstand Illustrated London News Times (London) 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers 19th Century British Library Newspapers America's Historical Newspapers 19th Century U.S. Newspapers Chronicling America (Library of Congress) California Digital Newspaper Collection Historical Newspapers in Washington State African-American Newspapers Updates? Corrections? Better examples? Send an e-mail to Dave Updated March 17, 2018 |
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