Resources By Department: History: Twentieth Century

TWENTIETH CENTURY - REFERENCE BOOKS

AMERICAN LIFE HISTORIES Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940. 2,900 previously unpublished WPA interviews. (Library of Congress)
DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used.
DOCUMENTS FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN HISTORY A collection of links to primary documents in American history from the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the current presidency. (George Laughead Jr., manager, WWW Virtual Library, United States History)
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DIGITAL COLLECTIONS Gateway to digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and books.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Find online documents and information about materials preserved at the archives. Also hosts Presidential Libraries.
PHOTOGRAMMAR Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).

CHRONICLING AMERICA: HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS Chronicling America covers local newspapers from across the United States from 1789-1925 (exact coverage varies by title).

HISTORICAL NEW YORK TIMES This link opens in a new window
The Historical New York Times provides searchable full text, full page, and article-level images. Indexing is provided. Goes back to the first issue, but does not provide the most current 3 years worth of articles.
PROQUEST U.S. NEWSSTREAM This link opens in a new window
This database provides assess to U.S. national and regional newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format, including exclusive and preferred access to The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune. Coverage varies by title, but may extend back as far as the 1980's.
HISTORIC NORTH CAROLINA DIGITAL NEWSPAPER COLLECTION This link opens in a new window
Historical North Carolina Newspapers covers local papers from across the state from the 1880’s through the 1950’s (exact coverage varies by title).

NORTH CAROLINA NEWSPAPERS This collection includes a selection of student and community newspapers from schools and towns around North Carolina.