Primary History Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

BorrowDirect+
Also Known as: Borrow Direct EZBorrow
Search BorrowDirect, a combined catalog of the holdings of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Penn, Princeton, the University of Chicago, Yale, and the Center for Resear...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

RLIN (RLG Union Catalog)
Union catalog of the Research Libraries Group Members....   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    direct URL
    RLG Member List

Worldcat - OCLC Firstsearch Union Catalog
Books and other materials held by OCLC Member Libraries. **8 SIMULTANEOUS USER LIMIT*...   [more]

Primary History Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: CRL CAMP LAMP MEMP SAMP
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves tradition...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    CRL Catalog
    CRL Quick Search Page / General Overview
    CRL Area Studies Programs - CAMP, LAMP, MEMP, SAMP
    CRL Catalog: Newspapers search
    South Asia Microform Project - SAMP

VCat - Video Catalog
The Penn Library Video Collection Catalog...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Important History Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

Academy of Natural Sciences, Stewart Library
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog

Access to Archives
"Contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day."...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

American Friends Service Committee Archives
[more]
Unrestricted Access

American Heritage Project
'The American Heritage Virtual Archive Project a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Duke University, and the University of Virginia is funded in part ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

American Philosophical Society
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog

American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
American Women is a gateway--a first stop for Library of Congress researchers working in the field of American women's history. The site contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable ve...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Archive Indexes
[more]
Unrestricted Access

ArchiveGrid
Also Known as: RLG Archival Resources,Archival Resources (via RLIN)
Provide centralized access for searching and retrieval of archival finding aids that have been encoded using SGML and the emerging standard for Encoded Archival Description (EAD). The finding aids are...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Archives Hub
A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges. ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Archives in Italy
Links to Italian archives (annotations in German)....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Athenaeum of Philadelphia
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog

Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Collection at HSP
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog

Bryn Mawr College Library
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog, Tripod

Bucks County Historical Society
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Spruance Library

Chatham House Online Archive
Chatham House Online Archive Module 1 1920-1979...   [more]

Council for European Studies
[more]
Unrestricted Access

David Library of the American Revolution
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters Handschriftenarchiv
Inventory of about 2,000 (of almost 19,000) medieval mss. in German from libraries and archives in Europe and the U.S....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Early Jewish American Women
National Women's History Museum mounted this exhibition on early Jewish American women. ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Economic History in the Philadelphia Region
bank, banks, banking, merchant, merchants, economics, economy, insurance...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Endangered Archives Programme - British Library
Digitized primary source materials collected and preserved worldwide....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Endangered Archives Programme - Africa projects

English Short Title Catalogue
Also Known as: ESTC
The English Short Title Catalogue provides extensive descriptions and holdings information for letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language, as well as for...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Europeana 1914-1918: Untold Stories & Official Histories of WW1
Also Known as: Europeana World War I
Explore stories, films and historical material about the First World War. Europeana 1914-1918 mixes resources from libraries and archives across the globe with memories and memorabilia from families t...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Fairman Rogers Collection
An ongoing digitization project. The collection comprises 1,054 rare volumes on horses and horsemanship including medical guides, stud books, books on shoeing, harnessing, training, riding, driving, r...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Forward to Freedom: The history of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement 1959-1994
Selected documents, images, interview videos from the British Anti-Apartheid Movement Archive at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Free Library of Philadelphia
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog
    Research Collections
    Central Library Departments

Freedom Summer Digital Collection
More than 25,000 pages from the Freedom Summer manuscripts -- enough to fill several file cabinets -- are available online. In them you will find official records of organizations such as the Student ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

German History in Documents and Images
a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are acco...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

German Society of Philadelphia
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog

Germantown Historical Society
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Hagley Museum and Library
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog and Inventories

Haverford College Library
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog
    Special Collections

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog

Library Company of Philadelphia
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog

Lutheran Theological Seminary, Krauth Memorial Library
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog (Eastern Cluster)

Manuscripta mediaevalia
A database of medieval manuscripts in Germany, with a selection of manuscript catalogs from important non-German libraries....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Mundus Gateway to Missionary Collections in the UK
Describes collections holding overseas missionary materials, including archives of British missionary societies, collections of personal papers, printed matter, photographs, other visual materials and...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

National Register of Archives
"The NRA contains information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records that relate to British history." Search by person, place or corporation to identify relevant British arc...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSL)
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalogs

Philadelphia City Archives
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Presbyterian Historical Society
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Princeton University Library
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog

Prisoner of the First World War: The ICRC Archives
The Prisoner of War archives of the International Red Cross are being opened up. Individual data on prisoners of war will be posted gradually over the year 2014. Altogether, 5 million cards on prisone...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Repositories for Primary Sources
A comprehensive, world-wide compilation by the library of the University of Idaho....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Repositories of Primary Sources
"A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar."...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Rosenbach Museum & Library
[more]
Unrestricted Access

ScarletFinders: British Nursing in the First World War
Also Known as: Scarlet Finders
"This new website gives information on all administrative and organisational aspects of the British military nursing services in France and Flanders during the Great War. It covers areas that have pre...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Stalin Digital Archive
Also Known as: SDA
[more]

Swarthmore College Library
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog
    Peace Collection
    Friends Historical Library

Temple University Libraries
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog
    Blockson Afro-American Collection
    Special Collections
    Urban Archives

The Gathering Storm: Jewish Life in Germany and Eastern Europe in the 1930s
Online exhibition created at the University of Florida....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Trove: National Library of Australia
Find and get over 395,675,052 Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Finding aids, catalogs, research guides, and digitized documents for curricular use from NARA....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    ARC - Archival Research Catalog
    Microfilm Publications Catalog
    Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States
    Digital Classroom

Waterloo directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals 1800-1900
[more]

Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890-1918)
Overview: Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914 | I. Economic Development | II. Society and Culture | III. "Modern Life": Diagnoses, Prescriptions, Alternatives | IV. State and Society | ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Winterthur Library
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog

Women Working
"This is the prototype of the Open Collections Program Women Working project. This site will provide access to digitized books (over 2000), manuscripts (10,000 pages) and images (1,000) from the colle...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Related History Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

Archives de France
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Cambridge University Library. Department of Manuscripts and University Archives. Oriental Manuscripts
Near Eastern manuscripts: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac, Turkish; Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah, Judaeo-Arabic; Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic. Southeast Asian manuscripts: Sanskrit, Prakrit, Sin...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Fowler Museum of Cultural History --UCLA
The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History explores art and material culture primarily from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, past and present. The Fowler seeks to enhance understanding and app...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Labordoc: Catalog of the ILO Library
Contains over 350,000 records of books, articles, documents, and reports providing international coverage of labor related topics, including employment, labor relations, labor law, working conditions,...   [more]
Holdings: Late 19th century-present
Unrestricted Access

LibDex The Library Index
Worldwide directory of library homepages....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

LIBWEB Library Servers via WWW
Also Known as: lib-web
Worldwide directory of library homepages....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    U.S. Academic Libraries

MALVINE
"Manuscripts And Letters Via Integrated Networks In Europe. ... An online search service for post-medieval manuscripts hosted by the Berlin State Library and maintained by a European consortium of lib...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Repertorium Alborum Amicorum
A searchable listing of "autograph albums" held by over 400 libraries and archives in 21 countries. The interface is in German....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, Ryan Memorial Lib.
[more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Online Catalog

The European Library
The European Library webservice is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It off...   [more]
Unrestricted Access