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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
History - American and British:
Archival and MSS. Guides
General Archival Collections
- - American Heritage Virtual Archive Project
- - a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Duke University, and the University of Virginia, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities
- - American Memory Project: Library of Congress
- - Includes MSS, documents, motion pictures, broadcasting, photographs, & sound recordings ***Lots of images***
- - ARCHON
- - Strong gateway to British archival links
- - Archival Sites for Women's Studies
- - A collection of sites created by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries
- - Archives and Manuscript Collections Outside Columbia [University]
- - Excellent guide and gateway to archive sites
- - Archive Resources via TULANE University
- - EAn archival "meta index," or index of archival indexes
- - Australian Archives
- - Papers of Governors-General, Prime Ministers and Ministers; Cabinet documents,
Royal Commission files and departmental records on defense, immigration, security and intelligence, naturalization, and many other issues involving the
federal government.
- - Emma Goldman Papers Description
- - Microform, Available at Douglass Library, Rutgers University
- - Five Colleges Archives Digital Access Project (Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and University of Massachusetts)
- - Access to digitized archival and manuscript sources related mostly to Women's History, emphazising education at the five colleges producing this site
- - Guide to the Archive and Manuscript Collections (Woolgar, and Robson.)
- - Provides a summary description of all these holdings and it is based on the
published, printed guide, C.M.Woolgar and K.Robson A Guide to the Archive and Manuscript Collections of the Hartley Library
- - Guide to the Papers of Louis Dembitz Brandeis
- - At the University of Louisville, Microfilm Edition
- - Johns Hopkins University Archival Service Gopher
- - Library of Congress Finding Aids
- - Lambeth Palace Library
- - Library of Congress: American Special Collections
- - Library of Congress Manuscripts: An Illustrated Guide
- - Maryland Government and Maryland History
- - Mass-Observation Homepage
- - National Archives of Canada
- - National Archives of Ireland Homepage
- - Includes information about Transportation Records, Women's History, and the Great Famine
- - National Archives (United States) via the WEB
- - National Archive and Record Administration's (NARA) Archival InformatioLocator (NAIL)
- - Includes access to documents from President Kennedy's National Security Files, and documents and photos from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and descriptions numerous descriptions of many holdings in all media.
- - National Register of Archives (United Kingdom)
- - New York State Archives
- - National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) Home Page
- - INCLUDES FREE ACCESS to the AMC portion of RLIN; Choose AMC from the main NUC page
- - Old Barracks Museum Home Page
- - Trenton, New Jersey
- - PRO: Public Record Office (UK): Home Page
- - PRO (UK Public Records Office): Selected Leaflets Describing Various Collections
- - Public Records of 1968 -- PRO
- -Includes some full-text documents and a listing for many other formerly "sealed" documents now available onsite at PRO in Kensington
- - Rutgers University: Special Collections and Archives
- - SHARP Web
- - Devoted to Archival Resources, Scholarly Projects & Societies, Syllabi, Bibliographies, Conference Notices etc Dealing With the History of British Reading and Publishing
- - Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- - Offering access to the Harvard/Radcliffe Archive Repositories Gopher
- - Smithsonian Institution Home Page
- - Thomas Edison Papers
- - Extensive Guide and Much More is Planned, Including Document Images Retrieved with Search
- - UCL (University College, London): Master List of UK Websites and more...
- - Archival Repositories and Professional Associations on the Internet in the United Kingdom and Elsewhere
- - Union Manuscript Computer Catalogue Website
- - U.S. and Canada pre-1600 manuscript holdings
- - University of New Hampshire: Special Collections
- - US EPA History Office
- - Numerous finding aids to this very rich collection on the history of EPA and related dcouments.
- - Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- - World Archives Guide
- - Powerful gateway to archive sites throughout the world
Thematic Archival Collections (under construction)
- - Thomas A. Edison Papers
- - At present it contains editorial material from the microfilm and book editions, including some images and maps, a
chronology of Edison's life, the text of our motion picture catalog edition, lists of Edison's patents, and an annotated list of
the companies he founded or with which he was associated. It also contains a searchable version of our database of 80,000
documents and 14,000 names, covering Edison's life up to 1898 (with a scattering of later documents).
This database will grow as the Edison collection is edited, and when the microfilm is digitized those images will be retrievable
via the search.
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