Collection of genealogical research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Includes the U.S. Federal Census Records, 1790-1930 and over 25,000 family and local histories.
The content in Hispanic Life in America is sourced from more than 17,000 American and global news sources, including over 700 Spanish-language or bilingual publications and reflects the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media.
HistoryGeo.com caters to history, genealogy, and land researchers and, at its heart, displays a map with over 12.3 million original U.S. landowners from the BLM/GLO indexes in a single, searchable presentation, along with populated places, cemeteries, waterways, and more. The First Landowners project encompasses 29 public-land states and Texas, while the "Antique Maps" collection has over 4,000 maps depicting landowners, drawn from a variety of sources and time periods.
The HistoryMakers is the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive. More than 3,000 African Americans have been interviewed for this video oral history archive. The collection consists of African Americans by descent, who have made a significant contribution in some area of American life or culture, or who has been associated with a particular movement or organization that is important to the African American community.
ProQuest History Vault provides a wealth of key archival materials with a single search. The Immigration Records module covers Asian immigration, especially Japanese and Chinese immigration, to California, Hawaii, and other states; Mexican immigration to the U.S. from 1906-1930; and European immigration.
Salem Press History ebook. Biographies of engineers, entrepreneurs, mathematicians, programmers, software developers, media moguls, and others who contributed to the development and expansion of the Internet.
An extensive, user-friendly archive including hundreds of photographs and transcriptions of headstones from Jewish cemeteries around the world, immigration documents, and digitized books.
Digitized reproduction of the LA Weekly, 1978-1999. Searchable by keyword and date range, or browse complete issues by date. Print and download articles and images in PDF format.
Digitized reproduction of the Los Angeles Times from its beginnings. Currently contains 1881-2017. Searchable by (keywords, author's names, articles, dates, etc.) or browseable by full page or issue. Includes photos, graphics, and advertisements.
The map collection is over one hundred years old, contains more than 100,000 items and represents a wide scope, including local, national and international cartography. The online archive focuses on maps depicting Los Angeles and the West. The online archive is part of the Library's "Visual Collections", with the maps available for online viewing.
Up-to-the-minute biographies of leaders and achievers from around the world in the areas of business, law, science, medicine, the arts, government, entertainment and more. Access to all biographies that have appeared in 24 Marquis Who's Who print titles since 1985, and Who Was Who in America volumes from1607-1985.
From the special collections of the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Branch Library, this collection spans from the earliest years of the motion picture industry to the World War II era. Part of the Library's "Visual Collections", these selected posters have been digitized and may be viewed online.
My China Roots is a genealogy resource for researching Chinese ancestry. Users can research ancestral villages, surname origins, and digitized zupus (documents compiled by families to record the names and details of ancestors.)
MyHeritage Library Edition is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind in the world. It includes billions of historical documents from over 48 countries, millions of historical photos, public records, indexes and additional resources.
An index to books, periodical articles and vertical file holdings of the Central Library's History & Genealogy Dept. on the tribes of North, Central, and South America.
The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-2022) provides search capabilities using subject terms and topics for focused, targeted results, in combination with searchable full text, full pages, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.
U.S. news from local, regional, and national sources. Diverse sources included are printed and online newspapers, blogs, journals, broadcast transcripts, and videos. Topics are wide and varied, such as politics, business, health, sports, and cultural activities.
OUTWORDS captures, preserves, and shares the stories of LGBTQIA2S+ elders, to build community and catalyze social change. The site contains a free, searchable collection of original video interviews.
