An avalanche of materials continue to be digitized and made available at no charge, including ebooks, art, historic documents, journal articles, current writings, photographs, and more. The repositories below help unearth items pertinent to most topics.
These collections are a gold mine of online primary source materials collected by the world's largest library, The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. United States History is especially well-represented, though the collection breadth is extensive. Contents include as Civil War photographs and music, U.S. slave narratives, women suffrage materials, historic advertising, early maps, music recordings and scores, English dialect recordings, gold rush narratives, cartoons, daguerreotypes, papers of distinguished individuals, Look Magazine photos, labor materials, posters, and much more.
Full-text books and journals on American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction, focusing on education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Housed at two sites; Cornell and the University of Michigan. Cornell's site is here: https://collections.library.cornell.edu/moa_new/index.html
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Auraria Libary owns and links to an impressive number of ebooks and there are even more online for free. These large ebook collections and digital repositories may be particularly useful for historical research, though plenty of up-to-date titles can be found as well. Going straight to one of these collections can be more useful than a general Web search once you identify collections of particular importance to your research.
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