History
Local History
Bergen County Historical Society
Historic site and event listings for Bergen County.
Durand-Hedden House and Garden
Local History Museum of Maplewood, NJ / Essex County.
Hudson County Genealogical and Historical Society
Historic site and event listings for Hudson County.
Passaic County Historical Society
Historic site and event listings for Passaic County.
New Jersey History
A collaboration between Rutgers University Libraries, The New Jersey State Library, The New Jersey Division of Archives and Records Management, The New Jersey Historical Society, and the American Labor Museum, NJDH serves as a portal for digital historical and cultural resources.
The New Jersey Historical Society collects, preserves, teaches and interprets New Jersey history through their archives, research library and educational programs.
Access to historic documents including images, genealogical collections, and digital exhibits.
New Jersey State Historic Sites
Maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, this website gives information on State Owned Historic Sites that everyone can visit.
Maintained by the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Travel and Tourism, this website includes information about NJ historic sites, memorials, and museums. Searchable by ADA compliance, family/pet friendliness, free admission, and other factors useful to travelers.
US and World History
A database of speeches organized by alphabetically by speaker’s first name.
Textbook, primary source, and multimedia American history resources.
The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults is an interactive exploration of history that examines thousands of documents, photographs, and pieces of history that have been integrated in a digital format.
General information on World and American history including articles and video content.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Primary and secondary source materials, recordings, images, prints, maps, sheet music documenting the history of the United States.
National Register of Historic Places
Maintained by the National Park Service, this website includes sample travel itineraries, monthly online exhibits, and teaching resources.
United States National Archives and Records Administration
Historic documents, veterans’ service records, genealogical materials, online exhibits, and more.
World History
Features full profiles that provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.
General information on World and American history including articles and video content.
Library of Congress Country Studies
Electronic versions of 80 books previously published in hard copy as part of the Country Studies Series by the Federal Research Division. Includes books on countries that no longer exist, such as East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union.
Lists of heads of states and heads of government, current and historical.
The World Digital Library (WDL), a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world, makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.
Last updated March 2, 2020
