HIST 370 - Public History: Web Resources

GettDigital is an online portal to the digital collections created by Special Collections and College Archives, Gettysburg College. Access maps, letters, fire insurance maps, a Civil War Era Collection, and others.

In addition to the Library of Congress collections, the National Archives specifically focus on American historical documents, including maps, textual records, photographs, sound recordings, and more.

Visit the art, history, culture, and other collections at the Smithsonian. Don't miss the National Museum of American History and Archives Center of the Smithsonian.

Discover 44,463,845 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

Use this database to access primary sources that document the history of women in the United States. Search over 700 digital collections, use an interactive map, and more!

The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, music, websites, and other digital artifacts. You can also use the Wayback Machine to explore websites as they used to look at different time periods.

The American Folklife Center provides online access to selected portions of our collections. Online content may include audio samples of music and stories, digital images of rare letters and photographs, and video clips.

The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition focuses on the indisciplinary study of the world's oral traditions. Their journal, Oral Traditions, is published bi-annually-- check out the scholarship being done about oral histories.

Find oral history resources, a collection of over 4000 interviews available online, grant opportunities, and workshops on oral histories.

Voces Oral History Center is dedicated to recording, preserving and disseminating the stories of US Latinas and Latinos and weaving the many perspectives into our historical narrative at the national, state and local levels. Browse through almost 900 recordings.