History & Anthopology

Articles, Primary Sources, Biographies, Videos, & More

    U.S. History in Context  

Find comprehensive coverage of the most-studied topics, from the arrival of Vikings in North America 1,000 years ago to Vietnam, Watergate and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
     
    World History in Context  

Reaches back to the ancient world and forward to today’s headlines. Provides an overview of world history that covers the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, and people.

    History Reference Center  

Includes full text for 150 leading history periodicals and features more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias, and non-fiction books.
      
    American Indian Experience  

Illuminates the histories and contemporary cultures of the Native peoples of North America.
   

Primary Sources

    Denver Public Library Digital Collections  

Contains a selection of photographs, maps, broadsides, architectural drawings and other documents from the collections of the Western History/Genealogy Department chronicling the people, places, and events that shaped the settlement and growth of the Western United States. The work of many outstanding photographers is represented and the collection includes images of Native Americans, pioneers, railroads, mining, Denver and Colorado towns, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, the 10th Mountain Division ski troops and many more.
      
    Digital Public Library of America  

DPLA provides open access to photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more. The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nation’s largest cultural institutions.
 
    Library of Congress Digital Collections 

Provides open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music.
 

Newspaper Archives

    Colorado’s Historic Newspaper Collection  

Includes more than 600,000 digitized pages, representing 160+ individual newspaper titles published in Colorado from 1859 to 1923. Due to copyright restrictions, CHNC does not generally include newspapers published after 1923.
       
    Hispanic Life in America  

Hispanic Life in America focuses on the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, covering the early 18th century to the present day, sourced from more than 17,000 publications, including 700 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals.
     
    Black Life in America  

It highlights the experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today. Black Life in America offers coverage of the African American experience from the early 18th century to the present day, sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications.
      

Biographies

    Biography Reference Center  

Provides thousands of biographies. In addition to keyword search, users can locate biographies by subject occupation, activity, nationality, gender, birthplace and more.
       
    Biography In Context 

Includes more than 600,000 biographies on more than 500,000 people and integrates video, audio, podcasts, primary sources, and images.
       

Ancestry Research

    MyHeritage  

MyHeritage is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases. It provides access to billions of historical documents, millions of historical photos and other resources in thousands of databases that span the past five centuries.