Historical Research Resources
- 1911 Triangle Factory FireIncludes original sources on the fire held at the Cornell's Kheel Center, an archive of historical material on labor and industrial relations.
- Documenting the American SouthA digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture
- Historical VoicesDevoted to creating a "significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century - the first large-scale repository of its kind. Historical Voices will both provide storage for these digital holdings and display public galleries that cover a variety of interests and topics."
- In the First PersonFree in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives from around the world
- New York State Digitial CollectionsGateway to a variety of rich primary source materials held by the State Archives, State Library, and State Museum. Access photographs, textual materials, artifacts, government documents, manuscripts, and other materials.
- Repositories of Primary SourcesA listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
- Smithsonian Collection Search CenterSearch over 8.2 million catalog records of museum objects, online images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other online resources.
- Studs TurkelAccess radio programs and interviews by Studs Turkel. A pioneer of oral history, his work covers topics of Race, the Great Depression, Work, World War II and more.
- Visionary Projectrecording, preserving, and distributing through various media, the wisdom of extraordinary African American elders - Visionaries - who have shaped American history. Activities include, oral history recording projects, community outreach, educational and intergenerational events.
