Fun History Websites

• Photographs from the Chicago Daily News:1902-1933, Chicago Historical Society
  55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933. From the Library of Congress American Memory project. 


• Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs 
  Approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands 1939 - 1944. Available on Flickr through the Library of Congress. More about the FSAC collection. About the Library of Congress Flickr project.


• Past Imperfect
  Smithsonian blog about "history with all the interesting bits left in." See also their "blogroll" of other interesting history blogs.


• Newseum front page for Monday, July 21, 1969
  Front pages from around the U.S. the day Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon.


• John Quincy Adams on Twitter
  Line-a-day diary entries of John Quincy Adams, beginning with his journey to Russia on 5 August 1809. A project of the Massachusetts Historical Society. See also Civilian Wartime (tweets from the N.C. home front during the U.S. Civil War).


• American Experience
  Over 1,500 features from more than 110 American Experience websites -- including timelines, primary sources, teacher's guides, maps, galleries, interactives, video, and more. From PBS. Watch American Experience videos through NC Live for free. Topics include America 1900; The Crash of 1929; "Monkey Trials" (the 1925 Scopes trial); Rachel Carson's Silent Spring; and more.

Primary Sources: Articles, Images, and TV from Way Back When

• Historical Newspapers (U.S.) @ UNC Library: search for your or your parents' birthday, or any date in history
  Full-text and images of several historic newspapers: 
  • The Atlanta Constitution (1868 to 1929) 
  • Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
  • The Los Angeles Times (1881-1986)
  • The New York Times (1851 to 2 or 3 years ago)
  • The Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
  • The Wall Street Journal (1889-1992)
  • The Washington Post (1877 to 1990) 
  •  and more
     

• Misc. North Carolina Newspapers
  Digitized by our colleagues at the North Carolina Heritage Center. Includes The Mebane Leader (1911-1914), the North Carolina Central University student newspaper, and more.


• AP Images
  Search their historical images for any date or topic. Check out President Kennedy at UNC's University Day in 1961. 


• Making of America:  Cornell ... Michigan
  They say it's a "digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology." 


• NBC News Archives
  Over 10,000 NBC News video clips in all areas & time periods. Includes newsreels from the 1940s, coverage of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, coverage of the first day of school in Little Rock in 1957, an interview with Eleanor Roosevelt from 1959.
  Tech Note: Create login from a computer within Carroll Hall. After that, use your NBC login & password from anywhere, including other buildings on UNC campus and home.


• Readers' Guide Retrospective
  Citations to articles written from 1890-1982, in popular magazines such as Ebony, Harper's Weekly, House & Garden, Life, Newsweek, The Saturday Evening Post, and more. This is an online version of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. Request full-text of articles via Interlibrary Loan.


• The New Yorker
  1925-present. Includes full images of all issues, including articles, cartoons, and advertisements. 

Cool History Books @ Park Library

• Life : our century in pictures. 
• The Civil War : a visual history. 
• Timelines of history
• A pocket guide to writing in history 

Scholarly Articles 

• America: History & Life 
  Citations to scholarly articles about the history of the United States and Canada. 1964-current.
• Articles+
  Articles of all types, for all subjects. "Federated search" of all electronic resources available at UNC.  Includes scholarly articles, newspaper articles, electronic books, and more. Limit results by date on the left to see older articles available online.