a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Primary sources are available here primarily for use in high-school and university/college courses. From the outset the site took a very broad view of the sources that should be available to students and as well as documents long associated with a western civilization approach to history also provides much information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. You will also find many documents especially relevant to women's history and LGBT studies.
Lacus Curtius is a large site on Roman antiquity, including a photo sampler of Roman and Etruscan cities and monuments (with a very large site on the city of Rome of course); a site for teaching yourself to read Latin inscriptions; the complete Latin texts of many of the most well-known Roman authors. On the site you will also find primary sources for French and Dutch history as well as a Gazetteer of Italian churches with over 1600 entries.
An extensive collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.
Gale eBooks offers broad cross-curricular collection of non-fiction titles, supporting science, geography, history, language arts, business and other subjects. Optimized for search and discovery, the Gale eBooks platform enables you to search through multiple nonfiction eBooks within a single search. Gale databases are accessible through their link and the Gale password found on our homepage or through TexShare directly.
The Internet Archive is a center for digital memory. Billions of webpages have been archived along with 28 million books, 14 million audio recordings, 6 million videos, 3.5 million images, and almost 600,000 software programs. They add another 1000 new digital books every day. Using their Wayback machine tool, you can archive any site you want to keep, regardless of how the owner changes it.
USA.GOV is the first page to visit for anything you want from the US Government. It is the home of all the other sites. You can link to any agency, program, or tool through it. Some more commonly used sites have their own links in this list.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) works exclusively for the United States Congress, providing policy and legal analysis to committees and Members of both the House and Senate, regardless of party affiliation. As a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress, CRS has been a valued and respected resource on Capitol Hill for more than a century. CRS is well-known for analysis that is authoritative, confidential, objective and nonpartisan. Search here for over 17,000 reports dating back to 1914.
The Census is a commonly used site for college students. It covers far more than how many people there are. Data from national to community level lets you explore housing, demographics, employment and earnings, migration; COVID and social factors.
The home of the US Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. From inland navigation charts to student loan data to housing price indexes, if you have a question, you can probably get a statistic here. Click the button that says “search over 335,221 datasets” for a list of agencies.
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
See how FOIA inquiries work with this curated selection of visually interesting datasets collected by local, state, and federal government agencies. Find out where all the moon rocks are or see all the footage from the Mars Rover. Government information is available just by asking for it. Look what you can do with it.
Contains articles from over 2,500 United States newspapers. Research diverse perspectives, topics and trends that align with areas of study such as Business, Health, Criminal Justice, Science, Humanities, Political Science and more. Features reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national and local news sources. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.
Search thousands of newspapers from across the world and the United States. Elephind grows its catalog by maintaining alliances with dozens of libraries around the world. Elephind consolidates the collections of their partners and makes them available at their website under one single search mechanism, eliminating the need to search each partner’s website individually.
Gale OneFile: News is a full-text newspaper resource providing access to major U.S. regional, local, and national newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. Gale databases are accessible through their link and the Gale password found on our homepage or through TexShare directly.
The digital repository of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. Find Texas history topics including maps, oral histories, newspapers, photographs, books, serials, periodicals, oil history, and music.
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Access it through the link, but it is a publicly available resource and you will need to register your own account. You may view 100 free articles per month.
A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to over 3.5 million articles from over 12,500 peer-reviewed journals and over 9,500 journals searchable at article level.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. The database provides quality reference material—not not simply translations of English-language materials—on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish. Gale databases are accessible through their link and the Gale password found on our homepage or through TexShare directly.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico satisface las necesidades de investigación de los usuarios de habla hispana con una amplia gama de revistas y revistas académicas de texto completo en español y portugués, tanto de América Latina como sobre ella. La base de datos proporciona material de referencia de calidad, no solo traducciones de materiales en inglés, en una interfaz poderosa y fácil de usar configurada para usuarios de habla hispana, lo que permite a los investigadores analizar temas y realizar investigaciones en español.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. The database provides quality reference material—not not simply translations of English-language materials—on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish. Gale databases are accessible through their link and the Gale password found on our homepage or through TexShare directly.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico satisface las necesidades de investigación de los usuarios de habla hispana con una amplia gama de revistas y revistas académicas de texto completo en español y portugués, tanto de América Latina como sobre ella. La base de datos proporciona material de referencia de calidad, no solo traducciones de materiales en inglés, en una interfaz poderosa y fácil de usar configurada para usuarios de habla hispana, lo que permite a los investigadores analizar temas y realizar investigaciones en español.
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News film clips from the 20th century, British Pathé created the news reels so often seen in older movies as they covered the news of the world. Excellent primary source material for your classes.
Looking for a primary source for the study of Colonization? This website holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. You can search or browse for films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 of the most important films in the catalogue are presented with extensive critical notes written by our academic research team.
The Internet Archive is a center for digital memory. Billions of webpages have been archived along with 28 million books, 14 million audio recordings, 6 million videos, 3.5 million images, and almost 600,000 software programs. They add another 1000 new digital books every day. Using their Wayback machine tool, you can archive any site you want to keep, regardless of how the owner changes it.
A comprehensive cover-to-cover collection of Life Magazine issues, spanning its very first issue in November 1936 through December 2000, including images from the famed photojournalism magazine.
View live cams from around the world as they observe nature in action. Eagles, bats, whales, condors, bison, hummingbirds, and more are just the beginning. Set in nature preserves and deep in the ocean, the variety is endless.
Download, share, and reuse millions of Smithsonian images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo
Founded in 2002, the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization working to discover, preserve, provide access to, and educate the community about Texas’ film heritage. TAMI partners with the Office of the Governor’s Texas Film Commission to administer the Texas Film Round-Up program, which provides free digitization for Texas-related films and videotapes, online access to a selection of the contributed materials, and statewide public programming, as well as creates educator resources using these newly digitized Texas media in the classroom.