Digitized Collections

Discover the entire Bayeux Tapestry scene by scene and follow online the 70 meter-long embroidered canvas which tells the story of the conquest of England in 1066.

The Library of Trinity College Dublin would like to announce that the Book of Kells in its entirety is now viewable in the Library’s new Digital Collections online repository, provided by the Library’s Digital Resources and Imaging Services.

The Carl Van Vechten Papers include correspondence, writings, photographs, scrapbooks and albums, ephemera, and artwork documenting Carl Van Vechten's activities as a writer, photographer and patron of the arts. The papers date from 1866 to 1986, and include early documents and printed items collected by Van Vechten, and material about Van Vechten and Marinoff published posthumously.

Digital Scriptorium is a growing consortium of American libraries and museums committed to free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts. The DS consortium comprises a variety of institutions, from large research universities to small public libraries and private museums with collections of assorted size and significance, from a few single leaves to hundreds of bound volumes.

DigiVatLib is a digital library service. It provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials (special projects).

Featuring over 1,700 artworks by more than 625 artists, the Collection Online presents a searchable database of selected artworks from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection of more than 7,000 artworks. The selection reflects the breadth, diversity, and tenor of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s extensive holdings from the late 19th century through the present day.

In Mainz, Germany, in the mid-1450s, Johann Gutenberg and his partner Johann Fust published more than 150 large-format copies of the Bible in Latin. This is the book known today as the Gutenberg Bible. Gutenberg may have begun developing a new printing technology as early as the 1430s, and completion of the Bible demonstrated the viability of a press that used individual pieces of metal type to mass-produce books. Although books would continue to be written by hand in the years— and centuries—that followed, the printing process pioneered by his team became increasingly prevalent, helping change how information traveled in Europe and, later, the world.

The Ransom Center is an internationally renowned humanities research center at The University of Texas at Austin. Their extensive collections provide unique insight into the creative process of some of our finest writers and artists, deepening the understanding and appreciation of literature, photography, film, art, and the performing arts.

The Huntington Library is an independent research libraries, with more than eleven million items spanning the 11th to 21st centuries. They have digitized a selection of items including photographs from Jack London, World War I posters, an original copy of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, and the Edwin Hubble Papers.

This collection consists of approximately eleven thousand photographs created by Jon Lewis that document the activities of César Chávez, the National Farm Workers Association, and United Farm Workers Organizing Committee in California, 1966-1971, as well as related publications and audiovisual materials, 1967-2009. Most images document activities related to the California Grape Strike in 1966.

The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.

This site has a selection of highlights from the LOC's collection of WPA posters. The posters were selected with an eye toward their design, representation of a variety of states and artists, and as a way of featuring those that have not been widely published. These examples demonstrate the breadth and depth of the collection and the styles and content used by the WPA to advertise varied programs and campaigns.

The Collections database consists of entries for more than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix. Updated on a daily basis, it is the result of the continuous research and documentation efforts carried out by teams of experts from both museums.

The New York Public Library Digital Collections contains 872,272 items and counting. While that is a small fraction of the Library's overall holdings, it is representative of the diversity of their vast collections—from books to videos, maps to manuscripts, illustrations to photos, and more.

This site provides an alternative way of browsing the NYPL's incredible Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s collection. The images all come from the New York Public Library's Milstein Collection. While many photographers contributed to the collection, the majority of its images are the work of Percy Loomis Sperr, who documented changes to New York City from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.

Operation Night Watch is the largest and most wide-ranging research and conservation project in the history of Rembrandt’s masterpiece. The goal of Operation Night Watch is the long-term preservation of the painting.

The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries, the Portal leverages the power of hundreds of content partners across the state to provide a vibrant, growing collection of resources.

The roughly 150 digital images gathered here draw heavily upon the work of 19th century ethnographer James Gilchrist Swan and his Haida interpreter Johnny Kit Elswa. Swan, who moved to the Olympic peninsula of Washington Territory in 1852, was fascinated by the Native Americans he encountered. He spent the remainder of his life studying their art, material culture, and history. He lived among the Makah Indians of Neah Bay, where he taught school, and was one of the first Americans to visit the Haida villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands.

The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) is a non-profit organization working to discover, preserve, provide access to, and educate the community about Texas’ film heritage. The ever-growing archive includes home movies, amateur films, advertisements, local television, and industrial and corporate productions, as well as Hollywood and internationally produced moving images of Texas.

The mission of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is to make the life and work of Vincent van Gogh and the art of his time accessible and to reach as many people as possible in order to enrich and inspire them. They have digitized many of Van Gogh's works, and are available to view in high resolution.

The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world. The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures and significant historical documents on one site, in a variety of ways. Content on the WDL includes books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films.

The New York Public Library Digital Collections contains 872,272 items and counting. While that is a small fraction of the Library's overall holdings, it is representative of the diversity of their vast collections—from books to videos, maps to manuscripts, illustrations to photos, and more. Here is a selection of the library's items that pertain to biology and ecology.

New Zealand Birds Online is a searchable encyclopedia of New Zealand birds. You can find detailed information about all 467 species of New Zealand birds, including all living, extinct, fossil, vagrant and introduced bird species. The database is searchable by name, conservation status, and geographical distribution. Explore the site to read expert-written texts, listen to sound files of bird calls, and browse more than 8,700 photographs.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling on issues, attitudes, and beliefs, including their views on the sciences and scientists.

The Rachel Carson Papers consist of manuscripts, notebooks, letters, newspaper clippings, photos, and printed material relating to the life and career of Rachel Carson. The collection spans the years 1921 to 1981, with the bulk of the material covering the period from 1950 to 1964.

Data USA puts public US Government data in one accessible location. Data USA provides an open, easy-to-use platform that turns data into knowledge. It allows millions of people to conduct their own analyses and create their own stories about America – its people, places, industries, skill sets and educational institutions. Of particular interest to those looking for career information is that Data USA can help you find locations with the greatest opportunities for the job you want and the major you have.

This site contains information for Rocky Mountain weather data recorded by Billy Barr. Scientists have been able to use the data to study the effects of climate change.

This service allows you to rapidly create a visual dashboard that summarizes broadcast television news coverage of your search using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive.

This application enables you to search and explore historic newspaper photographs. You can search by keyword over the photos' captions (extracted from the OCR of each newspaper page), as well as search by visual similarity. The visual similarity search capability retrieves relevant photos by empowering you to train a machine learning algorithm by selecting photos that you are interested in. The application contains 1.56 million photos from the Newspaper Navigator dataset, consisting of all extracted photos in the dataset published between 1900 and 1963.

The OLL is a curated collection of scholarly works that engage with vital questions of liberty. Spanning the centuries from Hammurabi to Hume, and collecting material on topics from art and economics to law and political theory, the OLL provides you with a rich variety of texts to explore and consider.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling on issues, attitudes, and beliefs. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling on issues, attitudes, and beliefs. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling on issues, attitudes, and beliefs. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling on issues, attitudes, and beliefs. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.

The definitive place to explore US public data.

The Harvey Memories Project is a community-driven digital memory bank. The goal of the project is to help create a public archive of the memories of Hurricane Harvey’s effects on the Greater Houston Metropolitan Area and Texas at large. We collect, publish, and preserve images, videos, audio, and text-based stories that document people’s experience of Hurricane Harvey.

How many mass killings are there in the US? High profile public shootings are only a portion of the nation's mass killings since 2006, analysis shows.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling on issues, attitudes, and beliefs. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling on issues, attitudes, and beliefs. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has created an interactive map where you can view where in the United States hate groups exist, as well as the number of hate groups per capita.

The New York Public Library Digital Collections contains 872,272 items and counting. While that is a small fraction of the Library's overall holdings, it is representative of the diversity of their vast collections—from books to videos, maps to manuscripts, illustrations to photos, and more. Here is a selection of the library's items from the Jerome Robbins archive of moving image and audio. Jerome Robbins was an American choreographer, director, dancer, and theater producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television. Among his numerous stage productions were The King and I, The Pajama Game, West Side Story, Gypsy, and Fiddler on the Roof.

The Ransom Center is an internationally renowned humanities research center at The University of Texas at Austin. Their extensive collections provide unique insight into the creative process of some of our finest writers and artists, deepening the understanding and appreciation of literature, photography, film, art, and the performing arts.

The National Screening Room showcases the riches of the Library’s vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, freely accessible to the viewers worldwide. This collection features numerous silent films from the early days of film making.

The New York Public Library Digital Collections contains 872,272 items and counting. While that is a small fraction of the Library's overall holdings, it is representative of the diversity of their vast collections—from books to videos, maps to manuscripts, illustrations to photos, and more. Here is a selection of the library's collection of photographs pertaining to the theatre.

The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries, the Portal leverages the power of hundreds of content partners across the state to provide a vibrant, growing collection of resources.

The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) is a non-profit organization working to discover, preserve, provide access to, and educate the community about Texas’ film heritage. The ever-growing archive includes home movies, amateur films, advertisements, local television, and industrial and corporate productions, as well as Hollywood and internationally produced moving images of Texas.

The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 115,000 volumes published in the United States and Great Britain from the mid-1600s to present day. Here is a selection of those items that have been digitized.

This site has open access to books pertaining to witchcraft, and the occult.

Digital Scriptorium is a growing consortium of American libraries and museums committed to free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts. The DS consortium comprises a variety of institutions, from large research universities to small public libraries and private museums with collections of assorted size and significance, from a few single leaves to hundreds of bound volumes.

The Ransom Center is an internationally renowned humanities research center at The University of Texas at Austin. Their extensive collections provide unique insight into the creative process of some of our finest writers and artists, deepening the understanding and appreciation of literature, photography, film, art, and the performing arts.

Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.

The National Emergency Library is a collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed.

Noam Chomsky is a linguist and political activist. The Noam Chomsky personal archives consists of Chomsky's lecture, speaking, and travel notes, writings, correspondence, research materials, collected serial publications, and other materials documenting his life and work.

The New York Public Library Digital Collections contains 872,272 items and counting. While that is a small fraction of the Library's overall holdings, it is representative of the diversity of their vast collections—from books to videos, maps to manuscripts, illustrations to photos, and more. Here is a selection of the library's collection of book art.

Download 800 free eBooks to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smart phone or ereader. Collection includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including works by Asimov, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Neil Gaiman, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf & James Joyce. Also please see our collection 1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free, where you can download more great books to your computer or mp3 player.

Shakespeare Documented is a free and publicly accessible online exhibition featuring all primary sources that document the life and career of William Shakespeare.

The Langston Hughes Papers contain letters, manuscripts, personal items, photographs, clippings, artworks, and objects that document the life of the well-known African-American poet.

The Beinecke’s version of the Divina Commedia was transcribed in the late 14th century by Dominican friar Fransiscus, with original arms likely belonging to the Bini family of Florence.

360cities.net is the largest collection of high-resolution, interactive panoramic photos and 360º videos created by a network of thousands of panorama photographers and videographers from around the world.

D-PLACE, or the Database of Places, Language, Culture, and Environment, is an attempt to bring together the dispersed corpus of information describing human cultural diversity. It aims to make it easy for individuals to contrast their own cultural practices with those of other societies, and to consider the factors that may underlie cultural similarities and differences.

Data USA puts public US Government data in one accessible location. Data USA provides an open, easy-to-use platform that turns data into knowledge. It allows millions of people to conduct their own analyses and create their own stories about America – its people, places, industries, skill sets and educational institutions.

The Huntington Library is an independent research libraries, with more than eleven million items spanning the 11th to 21st centuries. They have digitized a selection of items including photographs from Jack London, World War I posters, an original copy of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, and the Edwin Hubble Papers.

The New York Public Library Digital Collections contains 872,272 items and counting. While that is a small fraction of the Library's overall holdings, it is representative of the diversity of their vast collections—from books to videos, maps to manuscripts, illustrations to photos, and more. Here are some of the library's collections of historic maps & atlases.

The Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection is an extensive map collection owned by the Perry–Castañeda Library at The University of Texas at Austin. The collection contains historical maps, as well as current event maps, such as maps on Black Lives Matter and COVID-19.

The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist provides a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company housed in the collections of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress.

Data USA puts public US Government data in one accessible location. Data USA provides an open, easy-to-use platform that turns data into knowledge. It allows millions of people to conduct their own analyses and create their own stories about America – its people, places, industries, skill sets and educational institutions.

The Beinecke Library marks the 246th anniversary of the nation’s founding with a display of vital documents of United States history from Yale Library special collections.

The website for the official Presidential Library of Lyndon Baines Johnson provides digital access to selected exhibits about the Vietnam War, the 1960s, social justice and sports, among other topics.

Learn more about exploring political cartoons.

Noam Chomsky is a linguist and political activist. The Noam Chomsky personal archives consists of Chomsky's lecture, speaking, and travel notes, writings, correspondence, research materials, collected serial publications, and other materials documenting his life and work. The collection is divided into six series: Biographical Materials, Correspondence, Writings and Films, Background and Clippings, Speaking Engagements and Travel, and Periodicals and Pamphlets.

The New York Public Library Digital Collections contains 872,272 items and counting. While that is a small fraction of the Library's overall holdings, it is representative of the diversity of their vast collections—from books to videos, maps to manuscripts, illustrations to photos, and more. Here are some of the library's collections of historic documents, including writings from Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, among others.

Here is the website of the Obama Presidential Library. Included here are photos, videos, and archived documents relating to the life and work of President Obama.

The OLL is a curated collection of scholarly works that engage with vital questions of liberty. Spanning the centuries from Hammurabi to Hume, and collecting material on topics from art and economics to law and political theory, the OLL provides you with a rich variety of texts to explore and consider.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling on issues, attitudes, and beliefs. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling on issues, attitudes, and beliefs. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.

The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries, the Portal leverages the power of hundreds of content partners across the state to provide a vibrant, growing collection of resources.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has created an interactive map where you can view where in the United States hate groups exist, as well as the number of hate groups per capita.

The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) is a non-profit organization working to discover, preserve, provide access to, and educate the community about Texas’ film heritage. The ever-growing archive includes home movies, amateur films, advertisements, local television, and industrial and corporate productions, as well as Hollywood and internationally produced moving images of Texas.

This archive collects the visual culture and narratives of contemporary antislavery, as well as heritage and public history projects that grapple with past and present slavery and antislavery. Its collections are a resource for understanding cultures of antislavery activism and protest memory.

The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 115,000 volumes published in the United States and Great Britain from the mid-1600s to present day. Here is a selection of those items that have been digitized.

Discover the entire Bayeux Tapestry scene by scene and follow online the 70 meter-long embroidered canvas which tells the story of the conquest of England in 1066.

Digital Scriptorium is a growing consortium of American libraries and museums committed to free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts. The DS consortium comprises a variety of institutions, from large research universities to small public libraries and private museums with collections of assorted size and significance, from a few single leaves to hundreds of bound volumes.

DigiVatLib is a digital library service. It provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials.

DocsTeach is a product of the National Archives education division. Their mission is to engage, educate, and inspire all learners to discover and explore the records of the American people preserved by the National Archives. The National Archives and Records Administration is the nation's record keeper. They save documents and other materials created in the course of business conducted by the U.S. Federal government that are judged to have continuing value. They hold in trust for the public the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights — but also the records of ordinary citizens — at our locations around the country.

The Huntington Library is an independent research libraries, with more than eleven million items spanning the 11th to 21st centuries. They have digitized a selection of items including photographs from Jack London, World War I posters, an original copy of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, and the Edwin Hubble Papers.

(Lone Star College) We commemorate this hard-won fight in song while students take a deep dive into the historic fight for equality and voice what the right to vote means to them. Listen as we take you on this historic journey that brings World War II working women’s icon “Rosie the Riveter” to life, highlights a protest song sung over 100 years ago by suffragist on the White House steps, and gives voice to historical figures on both sides of the fight.

Last Seen: Finding Family after Slavery offers genealogists and researchers a new tool for telling family stories of separation and survival during slavery, emancipation, and the Civil War. The site offers easy access to thousands of “Information Wanted” advertisements taken out by former slaves searching for long lost family members

Discover the contributions and experiences of Latinos in the United States.

The website for the official Presidential Library of Lyndon Baines Johnson provides digital access to selected exhibits about the Vietnam War, the 1960s, social justice and sports, among other topics.

The Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather, preserve and provide access to records of Lesbian lives and activities. Doing this also serves to uncover and document our herstory previously denied to us by patriarchal historians in the interests of the culture that they served. The existence of the Archives will thus enable current and future generations to analyze and reevaluate the Lesbian experience.

The National Screening Room showcases the riches of the Library’s vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, freely accessible to the viewers worldwide. The majority of movies in the National Screening Room are freely available as both 5 mb MP4 and ProRes 422 MOV downloads

The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.

Here is a selection of highlights from the LOC's collection of WPA posters. The posters were selected with an eye toward their design, representation of a variety of states and artists, and as a way of featuring those that have not been widely published. These examples demonstrate the breadth and depth of the collection and the styles and content used by the WPA to advertise varied programs and campaigns.

This application enables you to search and explore historic newspaper photographs. You can search by keyword over the photos' captions (extracted from the OCR of each newspaper page), as well as search by visual similarity. The visual similarity search capability retrieves relevant photos by empowering you to train a machine learning algorithm by selecting photos that you are interested in. The application contains 1.56 million photos from the Newspaper Navigator dataset, consisting of all extracted photos in the dataset published between 1900 and 1963.

The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials.

The New York Public Library Digital Collections contains 872,272 items and counting. While that is a small fraction of the Library's overall holdings, it is representative of the diversity of their vast collections—from books to videos, maps to manuscripts, illustrations to photos, and more.

The Obama Presidential Library includes photos, videos, and archived documents relating to the life and work of President Obama.

This site provides an alternative way of browsing the NYPL's incredible Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s collection. The images all come from the New York Public Library's Milstein Collection. While many photographers contributed to the collection, the majority of its images are the work of Percy Loomis Sperr, who documented changes to New York City from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.

The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries, the Portal leverages the power of hundreds of content partners across the state to provide a vibrant, growing collection of resources.

The papers of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) span the years 1866-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 2000. The collection, which contains approximately 7,500 items in the Manuscript Division, as well as 2,500 photographs in the Prints and Photographs Division, documents many aspects of Parks's private life and public activism on behalf of civil rights for African Americans.

Tamina, Texas, is one of the few remaining emancipation communities in the United States, considered the oldest freedmen’s town in Texas.

The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) is a non-profit organization working to discover, preserve, provide access to, and educate the community about Texas’ film heritage. The ever-growing archive includes home movies, amateur films, advertisements, local television, and industrial and corporate productions, as well as Hollywood and internationally produced moving images of Texas.

UTSA’s Mexican Cookbook Collection is comprised of more than 2,000 cookbooks, from 1789 to the present, with most books dating from 1940-2000. In addition to broad general coverage, the collection includes concentrations in the areas of regional cooking, healthy and vegetarian recipes, corporate advertising cookbooks, and manuscript recipe books.

The UTSA Libraries are proud to preserve the legacies of San Antonio and South Texas through our growing collection of rare books, personal papers, photographs, and other one-of-a-kind primary resources.

Voces Oral History Center is the leading Latino oral history archive in the United States. It began in 1999, with a mission of capturing untold stories of Latinos and Latinas who served, in the military or on the home front, during World War II. The archive has expanded to include the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and Political and Civic Engagement, focusing on the continuing fight for Latino civil rights.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling on issues, attitudes, and beliefs. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.

DigiVatLib is a digital library service. It provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials.

The Ransom Center is an internationally renowned humanities research center at The University of Texas at Austin. Their extensive collections provide unique insight into the creative process of some of our finest writers and artists, deepening the understanding and appreciation of literature, photography, film, art, and the performing arts. The digital collections represent just a sample of the Ransom Center's diverse holdings in literature, photography, film, art, and the performing arts. New materials are added regularly.

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. The Library preserves and provides access to a rich, diverse and enduring source of knowledge to inform, inspire and engage you in your intellectual and creative endeavors.

The Morgan Library & Museum have digitized valuable primary resources in their original format including: drawings & prints, literary & historical manuscripts, medieval & renaissance manuscripts, modern & contemporary drawings, and printed books & bindings.

The National Emergency Library is a collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed.

The New York Public Library Digital Collections contains 872,272 items and counting. While that is a small fraction of the Library's overall holdings, it is representative of the diversity of their vast collections—from books to videos, maps to manuscripts, illustrations to photos, and more.

The OLL is a curated collection of scholarly works that engage with vital questions of liberty. Spanning the centuries from Hammurabi to Hume, and collecting material on topics from art and economics to law and political theory, the OLL provides you with a rich variety of texts to explore and consider.

This site has a selection of over 800 multi-disciplinary books that are free to download to a computer or smart device.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.They do not take policy positions.

The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries, the Portal leverages the power of hundreds of content partners across the state to provide a vibrant, growing collection of resources.

The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) is a non-profit organization working to discover, preserve, provide access to, and educate the community about Texas’ film heritage. The ever-growing archive includes home movies, amateur films, advertisements, local television, and industrial and corporate productions, as well as Hollywood and internationally produced moving images of Texas.

The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world. The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures and significant historical documents on one site, in a variety of ways. Content on the WDL includes books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films.

The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records.

The music collection of novelist Jane Austen and her family is being made freely available to access online as part of a University of Southampton digital library project.

PubMed Central (PMC) is a full-text, online archive of journal literature operated by the National Library of Medicine. NASA is using PMC to permanently preserve and provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research.

DigiVatLib is a digital library service. It provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials.

Rongo (Analects) is famed as the collection of the words and deeds of Confucius and has greatly influenced the culture of China and neighboring nations as the most cherished scripture of Confucianism.

Radical Philosophy is a bimonthly academic journal of critical theory and philosophy. It was established in 1972 with the purpose of providing a forum for the theoretical work which was emerging in the wake of the radical movements of the 1960s, in philosophy and other fields. The journal is edited by an "editorial collective". Here you can find online issues of the journal dating back to 1972.

D-PLACE, or the Database of Places, Language, Culture, and Environment, is an attempt to bring together the dispersed corpus of information describing human cultural diversity. It aims to make it easy for individuals to contrast their own cultural practices with those of other societies, and to consider the factors that may underlie cultural similarities and differences.

The definitive place to explore US public data.

The GDELT Project monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world. This service allows you to rapidly create a visual dashboard that summarizes broadcast television news coverage of your search using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive.

The website for the official Presidential Library of Lyndon Baines Johnson provides digital access to selected exhibits about the Vietnam War, the 1960s, social justice and sports, among other topics.

The Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather, preserve and provide access to records of Lesbian lives and activities. Doing this also serves to uncover and document our herstory previously denied to us by patriarchal historians in the interests of the culture that they served. The existence of the Archives will thus enable current and future generations to analyze and reevaluate the Lesbian experience.

How many mass killings are there in the US? High profile public shootings are only a portion of the nation's mass killings since 2006, analysis shows.

Learn more about Indigenous territories, langauges, lands, and ways of life. We strive to map Indigenous lands in a way that changes, challenges, and improves the way people see history and the present day. We hope to strengthen the spiritual bonds that people have with the land, its people, and its meaning.

The Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection is an extensive map collection owned by the Perry–Castañeda Library at The University of Texas at Austin. The collection contains historical maps, as well as current event maps, such as maps on Black Lives Matter and COVID-19.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling on issues, attitudes, and beliefs. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling on issues, attitudes, and beliefs. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.

Voces Oral History Center is the leading Latino oral history archive in the United States. It began in 1999, with a mission of capturing untold stories of Latinos and Latinas who served, in the military or on the home front, during World War II. The archive has expanded to include the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and Political and Civic Engagement, focusing on the continuing fight for Latino civil rights.

The Digital Public Library of America empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society by maximizing access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge.

Netflix has made a selection of their documentary features and series available on YouTube for Free. Note: These documentaries are only available during the COVID-19 pandemic.