HILLSIDE PUBLIC LIBRARY
155 Lakeville Road
New Hyde Park , NY 11040
Mrs. Charlene Noll, Library Director
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS & PRIMARY SOURCES & MAPS
NewYorkHeritage.org is a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and others who are interested in the Empire State's history.
BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE 1841~1902
Long Island Memories Visual & oral records of Long Island archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, & organizations.
IMAGE COLLECTION Includes Photos of People & Places, Maps, Flags, Natural Science & Historical Photos. Click on Kids Search , then on Images.
Harvard Open Collections
Women Working, 1870 -1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression.
American Memory Project from the Library of Congress
Written & spoken words, sound recordings, still & moving images, prints, maps, & sheet music that document the American experience.
National Museum of African Art
New York Historical Society Featuring the American Memory Project
New York Public Library Digital Library
100 Milestone Documents
List of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.
Pictoral Americana
From the Library of Congress
New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
Since its creation in 1915, the Picture Collection has met the needs of New York's large community of artists, illustrators, designers, teachers, students, and general researchers. Covering over 12,000 subjects, the Picture Collection is an extensive circulating collection and reference archive, the largest of its kind in any public library system.
DIGITAL HISTORY
Includes a lot of helpful text, including primary documents & background resources for U.S. history.
Historical Maps & Primary Documents: Maps of Middle American Region to 1850 Mid-Atlantic region of North America – stretching from New York south to Virginia – was a pivotal area in the early development of the American colonies and the United States.
Brooklyn in the Civil War: Women, Soldiers, Slavery, Daily Life
In the First Person Index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals we've indexed first person narratives from hundreds of published volumes—those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world. Our intent is to make it possible to find and explore the voices of more than 300,000 individuals.
Primary Sources of the Women's Movement, 1960 - Present The "Second Wave" and Beyond scholarly community, launced in April 2006, is an innovative form of electronic communication and research that brings together feminist thinkers, both scholars and activists, to create a stimulating and supportive environment in which to pose and analyze compelling questions about feminist activism and theories, define new directions for historical research on this period, and provide a new venue for publishing traditional articles but also for writing and recording this history in ways made possible by the medium of online publication.
Awesome Stories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals findoriginal sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, and government web sites.
"As our holiday gift to students...students (and their parents, if they wish) can receive free individual access to the site by simply requesting it with this form. https://www.awesomestories.com/signup.php?ua=individual_signup We recognize that many students, & their families, cannot afford 'extras' like on-line subscription fees. In an effort to encourage children, and others, to read - and to assist them as they use the Internet to research topics & locate primary sources - we are saying 'Happy Holidays!'"
Throughout the Ages is a visual educational resource from the New York State Archives, the Archives Partnership Trust, and the JPMorgan Chase Foundation that focuses on using historical records as learning tools in pre-K–grade 6 education. New York State teachers developed the content to correlate with the State Education Department's publication Social Studies Instructional Strategies and Resources: Pre-Kindergarten Through Grade 6. More than 200 digital images of historical photographs, letters, broadsides, maps, and paintings. The “Build Your Own Worksheet” option is an innovative feature that can be customized for individual needs.
Chronicling America: Historic Newspapers From the Library of Congress.
Civil War Diaries from the collections at the Western Michigan University Archives.
Immigrant History Research Center
LIFE PHOTO ARCHIVE By LIFE magazine, search events from 1860
MAPS
Long Island Maps & Their Makers
New York State Historical Maps
Maps of Countries from the CIA Factbook
Census Maps: On-Line Mapping Resources from the U.S. Census Bureau
American Shores
Collection of early maps from New York Public Library includes many maps of Long Island , to 1850.
Library of Congress Historical Maps
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