A Guide to American History

St. Louis City's public library system. The closest location is the Charing Cross branch at 356 N. Skinker Blvd, but you can get access to their digital collections (databases, eBooks, audiobooks) without ever having to step foot in a physical location.

the county's library system. SLPL & SLCL have a combined catalog, but they are two different systems. The closest SLCL branch to WashU's Danforth campus is Mid-County at 7821 Maryland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63105-3875

The MLC consists of nine, independent but networked municipal libraries in St. Louis County, Missouri. Access to one library provides access to all. To apply for a library card, you must visit a library.

bound anthologies of NYC primary source collections

mostly photographs (student life), college archives (presidents' archives), and student newspapers

digital collection of the Barnard Women’s Center / Barnard Center for Research on Women, 1971-1993

includes Antiwar Notices 1934-36, The Free Academy, Harlem Development Archive, the Hatch/Billops Oral Histories of Black Culture, Langston Hughes Festival, Observation Post, The Paper, Ravi Shankar Course Lectures and Papers, Russel Sage, Struggle for Free Speech at CCNY, 1931-42, Student Political Activism, and Townsend Harris: The Japan Connection

includes "1968, Columbia in crisis," Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive, Frances Perkins collection, Hubert Henry Harrison collection, Herbert Henry Lehman correspondence, and the papers of John Jay and Amiri Baraka

Cornell Hip Hop Collection (Joe Conzo, Jr., "The man who took Hip-Hop's baby pictures," photographic archive of the South Bronx between 1978 and 1983; party and event flyers ca. 1977-1984); Cornell Daily Sun (1880-1986), publications from the Cornell University Archives 1868-1945, Ezra Cornell papers, etc.

includes Bronx African American Oral History Project, Bronx Italian American History Project, Hudson River collection, Cuban baseball, Harlem Hellfighters photos, 16-18th century map collections of New York and New England, The Ram campus newspaper (1918-2006), oral histories of the first class of women in the history at Fordham, and the events and issues of 1964-68.

some of their special collections can be viewed online, but they don't have a separate page for digital collections, so it's difficult to determine what of it can be accessed via the Web

civil rights and Hofstra, POTUS debates 2008-16, Lt. Col. Charles Dryden Tuskegee airman and Hofstra alum, '60s student movements, From City to Suburbs on Long Island, Long Island’s Gold Coast era (1890s-1930s), Slavery on Long Island, Superstorm Sandy, etc.

includes "Offense + Dissent," which addresses three incidents in the history of The New School: the 1951 and ’53 curtaining of the Orozco murals during the Red Scare ears; the 1970 anti-war exhibition put up by Parsons students; and the 1989 Matsunaga affair; and the American Race Crisis Lecture Series Audio Recordings (1964)

includes the Sylvester Manor Archive (home of the original European settlers on Shelter Island in eastern Long Island, New York, and continually occupied by the Sylvesters from 1652 to the late-20th century); several LGBTQ+ and AIDS activists' papers (Harry Kondoleon, Richard Berkowitz, Gay USA,); "The Soul of Reason" radio program (SoR) hosted by Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs (IAAA) at NYU at the time (1971-1986)

includes The Torch (student newspaper); political, cultural, and religious student publications, a diary kept by the priests at St. John's from 1865-1892, etc.

includes student newspaper archives, Student War Board Scrapbook, 1942-1946

Edwin Markham archive (Charles Edwin Anson Markham was born in Oregon, spent the early part of his career in California, but moved to Staten Island in 1901. Markham was a Christian Socialist and prolific letter writer and had correspondence with many important figures of his time, including Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Carl Sandburg, Herbert Hoover, Amy Lowell, and Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Markham is best known for his spirited protest against the exploitation of poor laborers; Wagnerian student newspaper, and Nimbus student literary magazine

Bialystoker Maggid, Cantorial Manuscripts, Henry Morais Papers, New York Synagogue Bulletins, Rabbi Doctor Norman Lamm collections Soviet Jewry Movement Oral History Project, Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry Poster Collection, Yeshiva WashU Libraries Manuscripts, Yeshiva University Yearbooks

an online catalog with a searchable database of selected objects from the Museum’s permanent collection. The database is continually being expanded to include more of the Museum’s rich holdings. The permanent collection has more than 11,000 artifacts, including ephemera, textiles, artwork, oral histories, books and manuscripts. The collection also includes over 300 moving images, and more than 40,000 print and digital photographs.

a website entirely devoted to a group of New York City writers, critics, actors, and wits (regulars included Beatrice Kaufman, Franklin Pierce Adams, Heywood Broun, Harold Ross and Alexander Woollcott) whose daily luncheons at the Algonquin Hotel in midtown Manhattan (59 West 44th St) during the 1920s influenced their nationally syndicated newspaper columns. The site contains an extensive reading list.

MCNY is an art and history museum located in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Onsite collections access requires an appointment, and scheduling is based on staff availability. MCNY strongly encourage researchers to contact the Museum at least one month prior to when you would like to visit. Onsite Collections Access Request must be completed before the visit.

one of a handful of libraries in the U.S. and the only one of its kind in New York to provide open, public access. The library holds over 550,000 volumes, including a rare book collection of approximately 32,000 volumes; 275,000 portraits and illustrations; approximately 400,000 pamphlets; and over 1,600 linear feet of manuscripts and archives.

is a collaborative project of eight Empire State Library Network and a portal to hundreds of free digital collections about New York State's people, places, and institutions contributed by libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions.

includes Revolutionary Era broadsides, Civil War collections, manuscripts related to slavery, ephemera, New York African Free School collection, etc.

provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history. It is searchable by county then paper.

includes Crime in New York 1850–1950, Five Points Site, Harlem history, LaGuardia and Wagner archives, New York City collection of digitized historical books, etc.

was established by law in 1818, to collect, preserve, and make available materials that support NY State government work. The Library’s collections include over 20 million items, and are utilized by researchers on-site, online, and via interlibrary loan. In addition to New York state publications, born digital since 1995, their Digital Collections include some historical materials from the 18th through the early 20th century in many subject areas, including the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, Native American materials, New York State laws and natural history. While books make up the core collection, Digital Collections also include primary source materials such as letters, diaries and rare manuscripts as well as maps, music scores, and other visual materials.

hip hop collection, WPA artwork, newspapers and periodicals, maps, books, photographic collections, Easthampton inhabitants and its Indian tribes papers, business and family papers from famous Queens residents, ships and whaling voyages log books, Women’s Industrial Service League, Inc. records, etc.

a cultural institution dedicated to telling the story of the rise of New York as a port city and its critical role in the development of the United States. They don't have any online collections, but you can get a sense of what they have in their collections (architectural elements and building components, paintings, drawings, lithographs and prints of New York City scenes, trade cards, menus, programs, postcards, tickets, broadsides, music sheets, and advertisements, navigational instruments, shipwright tools, and ship components, ship models and plans, scrimshaw, and other objects from the neighborhood) and how to access them.

this museum "explores the uniquely American story of immigration through a dilapidated tenement building at 97 Orchard Street that served as apartments from 1860s through the 1930s. The Museum maintains an institutional archive containing research projects and exhibitions, and interpretive content including biographical material about former residents and other people associated with 97/103 Orchard Street or the Lower East Side and their descendants...Our historical document collection focuses on copies of primary sources obtained from archives and libraries, including ship manifests, census records, city directories and newspapers, as well as personal documents like report cards. The Museum’s archives are available for research by appointment in advance only. Generally, appointments are available Monday – Friday between 10am and 5pm, and must be confirmed two weeks in advance of the requested date. Further instructions for accessing the archives are listed.

a multidisciplinary museum dedicated to preserving the history of the 19th century African American community of Weeksville, Brooklyn - one of America’s many free black communities.