Finding Archive Collections

• American Historical Association’s Tips for Visiting Archives
• Archive Finder (archives in the U.K. and U.S.)
• Online Computer Library Center Archive Grid
• Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media - Impressive array of tools and articles related to digital scholarship.

General Historical Archives

• 19th Century Masterfile - Guide to full-text materials available online and elsewhere.
• American Antiquarian Society (online catalog)
• American Colonists Library - Offers a “comprehensive collection of the literature and documents that most directly impacted the thought and lives of America’s colonists in the 17th and 18th centuries.”
• Best History Sites - Curated list of useful American history websites
• Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group’s Legal Information Archive
• Cycles in U.S. History - Collection of sites for historical research
• Digital Public Library of America
• EduConnect - Menu-driven guide to topics and online resources for historical research
• Gale product listing by medium
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research - Database of more than 650,000 national public opinion questions going back to 1935
• State Historical Societies - List of societies’ web pages, some of which provide access to online archives.
  
• State archives, military archives, info about research
• University of Idaho resource on online repositories - Organized by geographical categories.

Advertising

• Ad*Access - Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II ads from 1911-1955
• Adflip - Archive of print ads dating to the 1940s
• Emergence of Advertising in America - Advertisements from 1850-1920
• Living Room Candidate - Presidential campaign commercials since 1952
  

Electronic Media

• Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project - Searchable archive and free downloads of cylinder recordings maintained by University of California at Santa Barbara
• Internet Archive “Wayback Machine” - Allows you to search for previous versions of Web sites
• Moving Image Archive - More than a million digital movies, many available for free
• Old Time Radio Shows - Information and recordings of old radio programs, both news and entertainment
• Paley Center for Media - Extensive collection of television and radio programs, with searchable online synopses
• Prelinger Archives - Thousands of archived films, with some clips viewable online
• UCLA Film & Television Archive - Select content viewable online
• Vanderbilt Archive of Television News - Browse this archive of network television news for free; obtain copies for a fee

Oral History Resources

• History Matters - Oral History Online - Guide to methods and resources
• Texas Newspaper Oral History - Transcripts of interviews with 17 Texas newspaper figures
• Washington Press Club Foundation - Oral history interviews with women journalists of the 20th century
  

Paper Collections

• Papers of the War Department
• Roy Howard Archive - Searchable index of correspondence collection housed at Indiana University

Print Media

• Accessible Archives - Fee-based archival access to nineteenth century African American newspapers, among other sources; individual subscriptions available
• British Newspaper Archive - More than 65 million articles searchable online; fee-based downloads
• Chronicling America (Library of Congress) - Selected but growing archive of digitized and searchable American newspapers; free
• Digital History - Collected “historically significant newspaper articles” about major events
• Digital Military Newspaper Library - Pilot project offering access to Navy and Air Force publications from around Florida
• Free newspaper archive list - Curated listing of free news archives
• Google News Archive - Extensive international newspaper archive
  
• Gutenberg Project - Archive of free downloadable e-books
• Historical Newspapers and Indexes on the Internet - A genealogy guide
• International Coalition On Newspapers - Collection of links to newspaper digitization projects
• Internet Library of Early Journals - Small collection of digitized British journals
• Library of Congress resource page for online newspaper archives - Newspaper archives, indexes and morgues
• Many Books - Free downloadable e-books
• National Endowment for the Humanities - The Endowment’s U.S. Newspaper Program has programs to preserve historic newspapers in all 50 states
• Newspapercat - Catalog of digital historic newspapers.
• Newspaper Archive - Subscription service with a wide collection of searchable newspapers. Collection can be idiosyncratic, with few full runs, but still quite widely varied
• Online Books Page - Lengthy list of free online archives of magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers - Subscription database of digitized newspapers
• Pulitzer Prizes - Full text available of Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting
  
• Readex collections index - List of digital newspaper collections from the U.S. and abroad
• Research Society for American Periodicals - Extensive collection of links to digitized newspapers and magazines
• Sequoyah National Research Center - Online searchable catalog of native American written expression
• Small Town Papers - Access to free archives of hundreds of smaller newspapers, mainly from recent years
• Time magazine - Free access to magazine’s covers and articles dating back to 1923
• Timothy Hughes Rare and Early Newspapers - Old newspapers for sale
• Undercover Reporting - Database of undercover reporting in American media offers free downloads of articles.
• University of Illinois - Guide to historical newspapers online
• Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (covers 1824-1900)
• Wikipedia’s list of newspaper archives

Science/Medicine

• Centers for Disease Control archives (since 1995)
  

Sports

• Sports Archives - Sports information including statistics for teams, players
• Sports Illustrated - Covers and issues back to 1954