History, Geography & Genealogy

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American Indian Experience

The American Indian Experience is a digital resource that illuminates the histories and contemporary cultures of the Native peoples of North America. This resource includes references, scholarly works, primary documents and papers, photographs, audio clips, and maps.

A to Z Maps Online

A cartographic site offering a collection of 145,000 public domain maps that you can download and print without searching for size or scale.  Map types include world, country, state, political, physical, outline, environmental, scientific, and historic maps. Also included are visual glossaries, geography games, extensive flag images, and teaching tools. 

Tessa

Tessa is the home of Los Angeles Public Library's digitized rare and historical collections. The site provides instant access to over 150,000 digitized items, including photographs, maps, prints, and more.

Jewish Data

An extensive, user-friendly archive including hundreds of photographs and transcriptions of headstones from Jewish cemeteries around the world, immigration documents, and digitized books.

Biography Reference Bank

Offers the in-depth profiles from H.W. Wilson’s Current Biography and World Authors, as well as periodical coverage of Biography Index and the specialist content of Junior Authors & Illustrators. Search this resource to access full-text biographies, articles and images from today’s leading magazines and journals.

HistoryGeo

HistoryGeo.com caters to history, genealogy, and land-researchers, and at its heart, displays a map with over 12.3 million original U.S. landowners from the indexes of the BLM/GLO in a single, searchable presentation along with populated places, cemeteries, waterways and more. The First Landowners project encompasses 29 public-land states and Texas, while the "Antique Maps" collection has of over 4000 maps displaying land-owners drawn from a variety of sources and time periods.

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