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History: Faculty Recommended Open Databases

This is a guide to help you search for scholarly sources for your History courses at Purdue University Northwest

OADB

Google Newspapers: https://news.google.com/newspapers

Home Economics Archive: http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/

Feeding America: The Historic Cookbook Project: https://digital.lib.msu.edu/projectscookbooks/index.html

Valley of the Shadow Project: http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/

Margaret Sanger Papers Project: https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/

Tenement House Museum: http://www.tenement.org/

Jane Addams Hull House Museum: http://www.hullhousemuseum.org/

Indiana Historical Society: http://www.indianahistory.org/

Making of America, Cornell: http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/m/moa/

Making of America, Michigan: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

American Catholic History Classroom: http://cuomeka.wrlc.org/

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/

Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollectionswlmpc/

College Women: Documenting the history of women in Higher Education: https://www.collegewomen.org/

Five College Compass Digital Collections: https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/

Library of Congress, American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/

DoHistory: http://dohistory.org/

Digital Collections, University of Wisconsin, Madison: https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/

Digital Library Federation: https://www.diglib.org/

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