History 488: Kelley Honors Seminar: Archival Resources & Materials at Other Libraries

This guide offers numerous suggestions regarding how to find archives that might have materials appropriate for your research.

Detailed archival collection descriptions concerning historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and other archival materials.

A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources. Univ. of Idaho, last updated 2015.

Over 1.5 million records describing manuscripts and archival materials in over 1,500 U.S. libraries and archives.

• 1959-1985: Print [Reference Stacks 016.09 N27]
• 1986/1987 to present: ;OCLC WorldCat: Manuscript Materials [free site from the Library of Congress]

Searches the catalogs and finding aids of archives in England and Wales. From the [U.K.] National Archives.

37th ed. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2009.

25th ed. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2010.

39th ed. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2010.

More than simply digitized US collections; 60+ digital collections of world history

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

The History of Medicine website includes
research tools, historical collections and more.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization with resources and histories from around the world

Links to Web sites and catalogs of 126 research libraries in the U.S. and Canada.

Wikipedia list of national archives in many countries

From Wikipedia.

Includes links to library Web sites and catalogs; offers the option to search by country, city, library type, and more.

The British Library has a number of catalogs; see information about all online catalogues.

Searches across more than 70 U.K. and Irish academic and research library catalogs; includes the British Library Integrated Catalogue.

Searches across the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and many leading European Research Libraries.

Links to library Web sites and catalogs; includes the option to browse by country.

For information about resources related to North Carolina, see the Government & Heritage Library Online Catalog; over 40,000 photographs, state government documents, manuscripts, and other resources are also available in North Carolina Digital Collections.

The AAM highlights current exhibits, provides lists of museums and other resources.

NCPH inspires public engagement with the past and serves the needs of practitioners in putting history to work in the world.

One example of many similar societies on specific topics of US history with blogs and other resources.

This society has an archives, a museum and its own publications.