History  

Reference books on History.

Reference books on Military History.

Descriptions of archival collections from contributing institutions in Ohio.

Quantitative facts of American history.

Index and abstracts of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.

Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers.

Index and abstracts to articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada).

An online archive of multidiscipline journal articles in the most significant professional journals.

Bibliography of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Ohio, 1796–1850.

This index includes names of Ohio people, businesses and institutions appearing in various publications between 1796 to 1850.

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Ancestry Library Edition provides easy access to more than 4,000 genealogy databases with a single search. Coverage focuses primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, although other areas are covered. Databases include the complete U.S. Census & Index (1790-1930), vital, church, court, and immigration records.

Union catalog of European printing from the 15th century to the 1830s.

Now part of the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center.

Page images and indexes to Harper's Weekly, covering the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Pictures, archives, and oral histories about Ohio history, contributed by Ohio museums and libraries.

Historic photographs of the Erie Islands and Lake Erie’s western basin; from the Charles E. Frohman Collection in the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center.

Digital documents related to slavery, abolition, and emancipation; includes broadsheets, letters, speeches, and photos.

Large-scale street plans of Ohio communities, produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867-1970.

Digitized letters and photographs from the Scripps archive at Ohio University.

Photographs documenting the invention of the airplane and the lives of the Wright Family.

Oral histories related to the May 4, 1970 shootings of Vietnam War protestors at Kent State University.

This site provides access to PDF images of original typewritten transcripts of hundreds of invaluable first-person accounts of Native peoples representing all tribes in Oklahoma. Beginning in 1966, tobacco heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke funded seven American Indian oral history projects, including one based at the University of Oklahoma.

A key component of diplomatic history research is the writings of individual foreign service officers (FSOs), consulate officials, and diplomats.This recent, noteworthy collection of foreign affairs oral histories is hosted by the Library of Congress in its seminal American Memory Collection. It contains an electronic collection of transcribed interviews of foreign service officers who served in the diplomatic corps in the 1920s-40s, but the bulk of the collection features post-WW II FSOs.

ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) revolutionized gay politics, giving new and forceful meaning to the slogan "out of the closets and into the streets." In celebration of all that ACT-UP accomplished (and that still remains to be done), filmmaker Jim Hubbard and novelist and essayist Sarah Schulman have created a Web site of oral histories of individuals who participated in this significant political movement.

Since 1994, faculty and students at Rutgers Univ. have collected the stories of those who served in uniform or in some home front capacity during WW II. Today containing over 250 oral history interviews,

The 1998 collaboration between Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group and members of the sophomore class at South Kingstown High School (SKHS) that culminated in this Web site shows both the depth and the breadth of learning that is possible when experts align with educators to energize students and draw out community members.

These interviews touch on the Great Depression, slavery, political views, the role of the federal government, local folklore, and a myriad of other topics. First-time visitors to this Library of Congress website should read over the "Voices from the Thirties: An Introduction to the WPA Life Histories Collection" section. Visitors can search the interviews by keyword or state, and visitors may wish to start by reading the interview of Louis Larsen, a farmer, social activist and singer in Nebraska