LibGuides: History: Websites

Web Resources

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search American newspapers before 1922 through this Library of Congress website.

HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.

Internet Archive eBooks and Texts
Search scans of out-of-copyright books
JSTOR Early Journal Content
Journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States, and prior to 1870 elsewhere in the world, is freely available. Searches at JSTOR.org for “only content I can access” will search the Early Journal Content as well as other content that may be free for promotional or other reasons. A “FREE” badge will show next to the Early Journal Content, as well as other content that may be free, in the list of search results.
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Social Welfare History Project
The Social Welfare History Image Portal brings together photographs, pamphlets, artifacts and documents chronicling the history of the nation's response to human need. This history includes the work of volunteer organizations, reform movements, social workers, and government legislation and systems.