Genealogy: Other Resources

Uncover the everyday lives of African Americans spanning two turbulent centuries. Focuses on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina. Presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity. Features a rich selection of visual material, including photographs, maps and ephemera. Key themes covered include desegregation, urban renewal and housing problems, civil rights activities and protests, and race relations and community integration.

Brings together more than 1000 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war, including what was happening at home. Includes writings of politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, farmers, seaman, wives, and even spies. Letters and diaries are by the famous and the unknown, giving not only both the Northern and Southern perspectives, but those of foreign observers also. Materials originate from all regions of the country and are from people who played a variety of roles.

Digitized collections from the Library of Congress.

Includes descriptions of historical documents in libraries, museums, and archives. Use ArchiveGrid to learn what institutions have archival materials on a particular topic, and how to arrange a visit to examine the materials.

An online archive illustrating California's history and culture, from the collections of the Bancroft Library. Selected from nearly two hundred individual collections, this unique resource uses the latest online archiving techniques to highlight the rich themes of California's history.

Gateway to digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — that reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. Content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations across California.

Includes hi-resolution scans of 85,000 maps, primarily of historic interest. Maps cover many topics, but are strong in early mapping of the Americas. Users can pan-and-browse map images, as well as download hi-resolution files.

Explores the study and analysis of gender through centuries of advice literature for men and women. The term “gender”, in this case, is used to refer to socially constructed characteristics associated with masculinity and femininity. Includes sources that perpetuate conservative and traditional models of gender, as well as sources which discuss the idea of gender in their own terms.

Collection of full-text sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Includes  books and manuscripts, in fourteen thematic collections, including "First Person Narratives of the American South", "Library of Southern Literature", "North American Slave Narratives", "The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865", "The Church in the Southern Black Community", "The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940", and "North Carolinians and the Great War."

Serves as a foundation set for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. An excellent resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable.

Provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. 

Contains letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters in North America. Centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico. Papers may be browsed by author, source, year, peoples, places, images, fauna, flora, environment, personal events and cultural events.

Contains digital images of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. Allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

Covers American social, cultural, and popular history. Includes fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. Especially rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature, offering vivid insights into the daily lives of women and men, as well as emphasizing contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.

In the late 1800's, Dutch physician and feminist Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. By the time their successors finished their work in 1945, the Gerritsen Collection was the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, spanning four centuries and 15 languages.

Indexing and full text of Godey's Lady's Book, a magazine intended to entertain, inform, and educate the women of America. Includes fashion descriptions and plates, biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health & hygiene, recipes & remedies, etc. Gradually the periodical became an important literary magazine and contained extensive book reviews and works by celebrated 19th century authors. 

Core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. The first phase of this project focused on books published between 1850 and 1925 and a small number of journals. Future phases will include materials published between 1926 and 1950. Full text of these materials, as well as bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating to Home Economics, are all freely accessible on this site.

Contains informational pamphlets, government reports, instructions, regulations, declarations, speeches, and propaganda materials distributed by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) during the Second World War. Documents, which reflect the thinking of the time, range widely in topics. View information on many categories, such as women's issues, children's issues, pocket guides to other countries, etc. Includes series, like the Victory Bulletin and 10 issues of the State Summary of War Casualties

Documents the forced evacuation and relocation of nearly 122,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry on the west coast of the United States during World War II. Contains personal and official photographs, letters and diaries, transcribed oral histories, art, etc. Also shows the faces of the men, women, and children who were incarcerated; the prewar neighborhoods and wartime camps; and daily life there.

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Includes the immediate experiences of women from diaries and letters; from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.

Provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 300 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.

Contains comprehensive primary source materials covering a vast range of topics including the formative economic factors and other forces that led to the abolitionist movement, the 600,000 battle casualties, and the emancipation of nearly 4 million slaves. Combines continuous runs of regional newspapers, as well as pamphlets covering a wide range of topics. Focuses on the entire era, enabling researchers to investigate not just the battles, but also the rising tensions that led the country to war.

Tracks two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. Presents a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. 

Serves as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2023.