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National Libraries & Archives & Directories

  • Archival and Manuscript Repositories in the United States --list from the Library of Congress

  • European Archival Network --links to many European archives

  • Family History Centers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  --includes a searchable directory and tips for using their resources for local and genealogical history

  • Guide to History on the Web --a searchable index to more than 5,000 US and world history websites from the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

  • History, Genealogy, and Archives: Databases and E-Resources --a list of documentary websites from the Library of Congress

  • The International Federation of Film Archives --has members from more than 60 countries that are collecting and preserving old film footage relating to their heritage and culture.

  • Internet Public Library: History --links to history-related sites vetted by librarians, a mix of various types of sites

  • Librarians' Internet Index: History --links to history-related sites vetted by librarians, a mix of various types of sites

  • Librarians' Internet Index: Photograph Collections

  • Library & Information Science: Web Accessible National and Major Libraries of the World

  • Library of Congress  --home page includes access to the library's catalogs

  • Libweb - Library WWW Servers --directory of more than 2400 library home pages in more than 70 countries, from the University of California at Berkeley

  • The Moving Image Collection --includes hundreds of US member archives as well as more than 30 foreign archives and has a union catalog allowing users to search across all collections at once.

  • NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL)--directory for locating sources at the National Archives

  • National Agricultural Library

  • National Archives Microform

  • National Library of Medicine (NLM)

  • National Library Service for the Blind & Physically Handicapped

  • National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections --from the Library of Congress, provides summaries of tens of thousands of collections at repositories around the US

  • Overseas Archival Repositories on the Internet

  • Presidential Libraries   --guide to libraries, web sites, museums, etc. related to the presidents

  • Repositories of Primary Sources --huge list from the University of Idaho

  • Smithsonian Institution Research Information System

  • United States Historical Societies Directory - Society Hill

  • WWW-VL History Index --World Wide Web Virtual Library

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