Research+Links

This page contains links to History on the web as well as library resources

[|Penn State Libraries Link for American Social History sources] Penn State library collection of links for history. You may need a password to access some of these materials

Library Databases Use the passwords given to you at the library to use these important academic databases

[|Research Catalog for the National Archives] A **must-use** resource for any topic involving the American federal government.

[|Link to thousands of documents in American History]

This is a link posted by the National Archives with some documents on topics related to Revolution, reaction and reform [|Documents posted for History Day by the National Archives]

[|Finding primary sources]

To find a pile of interactive documents made available via the National Archives, go [|here.]

A database for newspapers from 1836 to 1922 is [|here] This comes courtesy of the Library of Congress.

The Chronicling America web site (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov) provides free access to over 5 million pages of select digitized historic newspapers published between 1836 and 1922. It is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a long-term partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress to digitize representative historic newspapers from all 50 states and U.S. territories. Chronicling America currently has digitized newspapers from 28 states and the District of Columbia, with new content added regularly, including newspapers published in foreign languages starting with Spanish and French.