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World
Archives Unbound
The Archives Unbound program has published more than 500 collections consisting of 300,000 documents totaling and more than 13 million pages. Strengths include: U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history. Broad topics include: African American studies; American Indian studies; Asian studies; British history; Holocaust studies; LGBT studies; Latin American and Caribbean studies; Middle East studies; political science; religious studies; women’s studies; and more. Explore the entire catalog of offering here.
Diversity Studies
Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies explores cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.
Fine Arts & Music
The Gale OneFile: Fine Arts & Music Collection 10.4 million articles covered in 250 journals, such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text.
Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
Foundation for Medieval Genealogy has defined medieval, for the purpose of its activities, as before 1500 AD. The organization is principally interested in links from this period to modern genealogy (16th to 21st centuries), including the identification of "gateway" ancestors. Geographically the scope is mainly European, but they are open to wider interests.
Informe Academico
Quality reference material on an easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish. It is not simply translations of English-language materials: Gale OneFile: Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish and Portuguese language scholarly journals and magazines, both from and about Latin America.
United States
HistoryGeo.com
HistoryGeo.com provides interactive maps and data on original landowners from Public Land States and Texas. Also includes a collection of historical maps.
The HistoryMakers
The HistoryMakers is a video oral history archive dedicated to preserving African American history as the missing link in American history. Focused on American history, oral history, and education in general and more specifically on African American history, education, music, law, the arts, science, technology, media, medicine, entertainment, fashion & beauty, business, the military, politics and sports, The History Makers is a combination archive, library, museum, stock footage collection, on-line educator and educational PBS/TV programming. Its topics include, but are not limited to, African American organizations and associations, slavery, reconstruction, the labor movement, the civil rights movement, and black authors.
U.S. Newspapers
NewspaperArchive
NewspaperArchive is an online database of billions of newspaper articles and obituaries from all over the world, spanning from 1607 to 2023. NewspaperArchive is a great tool for genealogists and historians, providing dates, names and stories, about individuals, communities, and the world.
19th Century U.S. Newspapers
The 19th Century U.S. Newspapers database provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary-source newspaper content from throughout the 1800s. It features full text and images from hundreds of papers from every region in the U.S., and it contains a wealth of genealogical content, including birth, death, and marriage notices. A few of the New England and New York papers: Boston Daily Advertiser, New Haven Palladium, Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, New Hampshire Statesman, Providence Patriot, Vermont Chronicle , and New York Herald.
Boston Globe
Millions of pages of searchable, full-text articles from The Boston Globe, covering 1980 to the present.
Early American Newspapers
Early American Newspapers, Series 1: From Colonies to Nation contains over one million pages of fully searchable early newspapers, such as the Boston Gazette, New-York Evening Post, and many more. Includes marriage, death, and court records.
The New York Times
Millions of pages of searchable, full-text articles from The New York Times, beginning in 1985. Additionally, an index is available from 1965 to the present.
United Kingdom and Ireland
Irish Newspaper Archives
Through the Irish Newspaper Archive you will find a large collection of Irish newspapers from 1738 to current day. The archive consists of over 6 million images of pages of newspaper content from titles North and South of the Irish border, and includes newspaper obituaries, and birth, death and marriage notices.
Canada
Parchemin Notarial Database
This database has a limited number of downloads available. Please download records only when necessary. Parchemin Notarial Database contains hundreds of thousands of records from notarial minutes recorded in early Quebec between 1626 and 1799.
Genealogy Quebec
Genealogy Quebec is home to over 50 million historical and genealogical documents and images. These varied documents focus mainly on Quebec, but also on Acadia, New Brunswick, as well as parts of Ontario and the Northeastern United States. The collection include the following types of documents: Parish registers, Notarized documents, Death cards, Censuses, Tombstones, Obituaries, City directories, Marriage indexes, Family genealogies, Postcards, and Baptism, marriage and burial records.