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General History Research Resources

General resources—including archival databases, citational/writing software, and secondary sources. For specific research guides, check out the Research Guides page. For free and open digitized archives (mostly in U.S. history), go to Digital Archives.

Archival Databases

Open Source Software


ArchiveGrid 
General search engine for locating archival collections

Archives West
Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington

Arizona Archives Online

Digital Library of Georgia

Iowa Heritage Digital Collections

Louisiana Digital Library

Minnesota Digital Library

​Mountain West Digital Library 
Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Montana, and Hawaii

Online Archive of California 

Rocky Mountain Online Archive
Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming

Smithsonian Institution Archives
A search engine for the archives at the Smithsonian
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Society of American Archivists' Guide to Finding and Evaluating Archives 

Texas Archival Resources Online

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Religious Archives Network 

The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases 
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UHN Library Compendium of Digital Collections
No longer updated, but includes links to digital collections


Evernote
Take notes and sync them across devices

Scrible Toolbar
A Google Chrome browser extension that lets you annotate PDFs and website content

Tropy
Organize, categorize, and store your research materials

Zotero
Store the citations and PDFs of your sources

Open Access Secondary Sources


Common Place
A journal of early American history

Google Books
Filter for "full-text" to find open, digitized books in the collection

Google Scholar
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A scholarly database of journal articles, some open access

HathiTrust Digital Library
Digitized books

Internet Archive
​A vast archive of freely accessible primary and secondary sources

Open Access Dissertations and Theses

Smithsonian Magazine

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