EDUC 607: Higher Education in the US: Finding Primary Sources: Online Archives

HOLLIS Images is the Harvard Library's dedicated image catalog. It includes content from archives, museums, libraries, and other collections throughout Harvard University.

Harvard University's special collections and archives contain primary sources including letters, photographs, film and video, print items, digital materials, and objects.

Search for records produced by university members and affiliated groups. Includes university publications, faculty and staff committees, and old bursar records.

The material available in this collection includes born-digital and items digitized from analog originals. All are part of the collection housed in the Special Collections Research Center in the Earl Gregg Swem Library.

A collection of primary resources from member libraries of the Historically Black College and University Library Alliance. The collection includes photographs, university correspondence, manuscripts, images of campus buildings, alumni letters, memorabilia, and programs from campus events. These images present HBCUs as cultural, social, and political institutions from the early 1800s until today.

The Disability History Museum's mission is to foster a deeper understanding about how changing cultural values, notions of identity, laws and policies have shaped and influenced the experience of people with disabilities, their families and their communities over time.

These exhibits represent the different areas of research in the history of women's education so far conducted by The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education at Bryn Mawr College.

This guide provides access to frequently-consulted sources on the history of Radcliffe College, a women's liberal arts college, including important historical documentation of college administration, student life, and alumnae activity.

Digitized newspapers from the United States, 1789-1963. Maintained by Library of Congress.

Access The Los Angeles Times from 1881-1994.

Access The New York Times from 1851-2014.

Access to digitized collections throughout the state of California, including photos, letters, art, diaries, oral histories, and musical recordings.

Search this vast collection of images, films, manuscripts, maps, audio recordings, & more, which document American history and experience. Search by date to retrieve primary sources for a particular century.

Over 750,000 items digitized from New York Public Library’s collections. Prints, photographs, maps, video, etc.