History: Yocum Library Useful Links
American History Resources | |
| Links | Description |
| American Archive of Public Broadcasting | A project of the Library of Congress and WGBH to preserve the most significant public television and radio programs of the past 60 years. |
| AFRO American Newspapers | Over 100 years of scanned issues |
| American Civil War Letters and Diaries | Virginia Military Institute’s collection |
| American Indians of the Pacific Northwest | Photographs, documents, and articles |
| American Presidency Project | Presidential documents on the internet hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara including 140,000+ documents and even Donald Trump’s Twitter feeds. |
| Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars | Soldiers’ and families’ letters and audio correspondence from over 200 years of U.S. wars |
| Black Freedom Struggle in the United States | 2,000 primary source documents related to Black history, from the movement to abolish slavery to the contemporary era |
| Berks History Center | Located In Reading and offers a research library and museum highlighting Berks County history. Yocum Library has free passes to the museum to check out. |
| Chronicling America | America's historic newspapers from 1789-1943 |
| Densho | Japanese American Internment Camps |
| Digital Public Library of America | Materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country. |
| Discovering American Women's History | Primary sources -photos, letters, diaries, artifacts |
| First Nations Collection | Documents, books, and articles |
| Freedom on the Move | A database of “runaway ads” to try to locate fugitives from slavery or descriptions of people jailed as potential escaped slaves. |
| Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 | Harvard University |
| HarpWeek: Explore History | Harper's Weekly political cartoons |
| Historical Society of Pennsylvania | One of the nation’s largest archives of historical documents with over 21 million manuscripts, books, and graphic images encompassing centuries of US history and is a leading center for the documentation and study of ethnic communities and immigrant experiences in the 20th century |
| Labor Studies & Work | Free online books from the Temple University Press in collaboration with Temple University Libraries. |
| Library of Congress Digital Collections | Written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music |
| Library of Congress: Immigration | Links to resources for teachers and students |
| National Museum of the American Indian | The Smithsonian Institution |
| New York Public Library Digital Collections | 700,000+ prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more |
| PA Photos and Documents | Thousands of digitized documents and photographs from unique collections in libraries across Pennsylvania. |
| Pennsylvania State Archives | Located in Harrisburg the Archives collects, preserves and makes available for study the permanently-valuable public records of the Commonwealth, with particular attention given to the records of state government. |
| Sequoyah Research Center | Family Stories from the Trail of Tears |
| The American Folklife Center | Millions of songs, stories, and other creative expressions from the 19th century to the present |
| United States National Archives | The official website |
| Women Working, 1800-1930 | 700,000+ digitized pages and images |
European and World History Resources | |
| Links | Description |
| Euro Docs | Primary historical documents, video or sound files, maps, photographs or other imagery |
| Internet History Sourcebook Project | Collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts |
| Liberty, Equality, Fraternity | Exploring the French Revolution in images, documents, songs, maps, and timelines. |
| The Avalon Project | Documents in law, history, and diplomacy from 4000BCE to the 21st century |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos | The USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 provides authoritative documentation of camps, ghettos, and other persecutory sites operated by the Nazi regime and its allies in a vast network that extended across the European continent and reached as far as the Soviet Union and North Africa. It is the most comprehensive resource on the Nazi camp universe, detailing the complexities of the camps and their impact on millions of inmates. |
| Nuremberg Trials Project | Digitized images or full-text versions of the Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg documents. |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | The official website |
| Women in World History | Websites, primary sources, and case studies. |
| World Digital Library | An incredible source of primary source materials from around the world. |
Websites recommended by Ms. Jodi Greene, RACC Faculty, and RACC Librarians.