Collection of genealogical research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Includes the U.S. Federal Census Records, 1790-1930 and over 25,000 family and local histories.
The content in Hispanic Life in America is sourced from more than 17,000 American and global news sources, including over 700 Spanish-language or bilingual publications and reflects the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media.
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 BLM/GLO indexes 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 over 4,000 maps depicting landowners, drawn from a variety of sources and time periods.
The HistoryMakers is the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive. More than 3,000 African Americans have been interviewed for this video oral history archive. The collection consists of African Americans by descent, who have made a significant contribution in some area of American life or culture, or who has been associated with a particular movement or organization that is important to the African American community.
ProQuest History Vault provides a wealth of key archival materials with a single search. The Immigration Records module covers Asian immigration, especially Japanese and Chinese immigration, to California, Hawaii, and other states; Mexican immigration to the U.S. from 1906-1930; and European immigration.
Salem Press History ebook. Biographies of engineers, entrepreneurs, mathematicians, programmers, software developers, media moguls, and others who contributed to the development and expansion of the Internet.
An extensive, user-friendly archive including hundreds of photographs and transcriptions of headstones from Jewish cemeteries around the world, immigration documents, and digitized books.
Digitized reproduction of the LA Weekly, 1978-1999. Searchable by keyword and date range, or browse complete issues by date. Print and download articles and images in PDF format.
