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.
An index to biographical dictionaries and directories. Each record provides name, birth and death dates, and the titles of the books in which a biographical sketch of the individual can be found.
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.
The content in this database is sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications and reflects the experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media.
This selection of Los Angeles-Area City and Street-Address Directories spans from 1875-1987 and can be searched by name or address. Part of the Library's "Visual Collections," the directories have been digitized and can be viewed online.
A listing of paper and microform U.S. city, county state, and regional directories located in the History & Genealogy Department. The collection also includes some Canadian Directories.
Brief country reports with concise information on the history, people, customs, lifestyle, society, travel information and more for over 175 countries.
Browse daily life in the ancient world, medieval world, 15th and 16 centuries, 17th and 18th centuries, 19th century, and modern world and find out what it was like.
The majority of these photographs reflect the early history of the Department of Water and Power, such as the establishment of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the work of William Mulholland.
Produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), site searches genealogical records worldwide including Ancestral Files, International Genealogical Index, census, and other vital statistics sources.
The Farewell to Manzanar portal accesses the Final Accountability Rosters of Japanese-American Relocation Centers, 1944-1946, Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers, Perspectives on Day-to Day Life: Personal Justice Denied, and Public Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment, 1981.
Historical Information Gatherers own the world's largest online digital collection of color fire insurance maps, real estate atlases and similar land use maps for North America.
A collection of over 200 vibrantly-colored labels, designed for citrus growers throughout Southern California, mainly during the first half of the twentieth century.
Covers the world's most influential people, merging reference content with periodicals and multimedia, allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, gender, keyword and full text.
Contains information on core subjects from Science to Literature to History of student-focused subject material. Includes the content of the Discovering Collection database.
Covers all areas of U.S. history focusing on the most significant people, events and topics from pre-colonial times to the present day seen through primary documents, original reference sources, newspaper/journal articles, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites.
Contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in world history from full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites
A genealogy file that contains local history information, selected history resources, and an index of family names in published genealogies located in the History & Genealogy Department.
