HISTORY
New Jersey History
New Jersey Digital Highway
A collaboration between Rutgers University Libraries, The New Jersey State Library, The New Jersey Division of Archives and Records Management, The New Jersey Historical Society, and the American Labor Museum, NJDH serves as a portal for digital historical and cultural resources.
New Jersey Historical Society
The New Jersey Historical Society collects, preserves, teaches and interprets New Jersey history through their archives, research library and educational programs.
New Jersey State Archives
Access to historic documents including images, genealogical collections, and digital exhibits.
New Jersey State Historic Sites
Maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, this website gives information on State Owned Historic Sites that everyone can visit.
Visit NJ: History
Maintained by the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Travel and Tourism, this website includes information about NJ historic sites, memorials, and museums. Searchable by ADA compliance, family/pet friendliness, free admission, and other factors useful to travelers.
US and World History
American Rhetoric
A database of speeches organized by alphabetically by speaker’s first name.
Digital History
Textbook, primary source, and multimedia American history resources.
Digital Vaults
The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults is an interactive exploration of history that examines thousands of documents, photographs, and pieces of history that have been integrated in a digital format.
History Channel
General information on World and American history including articles and video content.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Primary and secondary source materials, recordings, images, prints, maps, sheet music documenting the history of the United States.
National Register of Historic Places
Maintained by the National Park Service, this website includes sample travel itineraries, monthly online exhibits, and teaching resources.
United States National Archives and Records Administration
Historic documents, veterans’ service records, genealogical materials, online exhibits, and more.
World History
BBC News Country Profiles
Features full profiles that provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.
History Channel
General information on World and American history including articles and video content.
Library of Congress Country Studies
Electronic versions of 80 books previously published in hard copy as part of the Country Studies Series by the Federal Research Division. Includes books on countries that no longer exist, such as East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union.
Rulers
Lists of heads of states and heads of government, current and historical.
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL), 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, makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.
New Jersey History
New Jersey Digital Highway
A collaboration between Rutgers University Libraries, The New Jersey State Library, The New Jersey Division of Archives and Records Management, The New Jersey Historical Society, and the American Labor Museum, NJDH serves as a portal for digital historical and cultural resources.
New Jersey Historical Society
The New Jersey Historical Society collects, preserves, teaches and interprets New Jersey history through their archives, research library and educational programs.
New Jersey State Archives
Access to historic documents including images, genealogical collections, and digital exhibits.
New Jersey State Historic Sites
Maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, this website gives information on State Owned Historic Sites that everyone can visit.
Visit NJ: History
Maintained by the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Travel and Tourism, this website includes information about NJ historic sites, memorials, and museums. Searchable by ADA compliance, family/pet friendliness, free admission, and other factors useful to travelers.
US and World History
American Rhetoric
A database of speeches organized by alphabetically by speaker’s first name.
Digital History
Textbook, primary source, and multimedia American history resources.
Digital Vaults
The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults is an interactive exploration of history that examines thousands of documents, photographs, and pieces of history that have been integrated in a digital format.
History Channel
General information on World and American history including articles and video content.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Primary and secondary source materials, recordings, images, prints, maps, sheet music documenting the history of the United States.
National Register of Historic Places
Maintained by the National Park Service, this website includes sample travel itineraries, monthly online exhibits, and teaching resources.
United States National Archives and Records Administration
Historic documents, veterans’ service records, genealogical materials, online exhibits, and more.
World History
BBC News Country Profiles
Features full profiles that provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.
History Channel
General information on World and American history including articles and video content.
Library of Congress Country Studies
Electronic versions of 80 books previously published in hard copy as part of the Country Studies Series by the Federal Research Division. Includes books on countries that no longer exist, such as East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union.
Rulers
Lists of heads of states and heads of government, current and historical.
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL), 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, makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.
