LibGuides: Genealogy: FAU Resources for Genealogy

FAU Resources for Genealogy

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Access World News (Newsbank)
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This resource enables users to search more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Created in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, African American Newspapers chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience.
America: History and Life
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1900 Early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states. Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876) and Series II (1758-1900).
American Civil War Collection, 1860-1922: From the American Antiquarian Society From the comprehensive holdings of the American Antiquarian Society, this collection offers printed items addressing all facets of the Civil War and its aftermath. These diverse materials, all filmed in full-resolution color, include broadsides, lithographs, maps, books, pamphlets, photographs, political cartoons, stereographs, and more.
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
American History in Video
American Jewish Committee Archives
American Periodicals (Proquest)
American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922 This digital edition of the American Antiquarian Society???s holdings of slavery and abolition materials includes works published over the course of more than 100 years. These diverse materials, all filmed in full-resolution color, include books, pamphlets, graphic materials, and ephemera; among them are a large number of invaluable Southern imprints.
ArchiveGrid
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 (Parts 1 & 2) Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 (Parts 1 & 2) presents aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. It illuminates the experiences not just of the LGBTQ community as a whole, but of individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations, and geographical locations. Historical records of political and social organizations founded by LGBTQ individuals are included, as well as publications by and for lesbians and gays, and coverage of governmental responses to the AIDS crisis. The archive also includes gay and lesbian newspapers from more than 35 countries, reports, policy statements, and other documents related to gay rights and health, including the worldwide impact of AIDS, materials tracing LGBTQ activism in Britain from 1950 through 1980, and more.
Asian American Drama
Biography (Gale In Context)
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Black Freedom Struggle A ProQuest website featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Focuses on historic and contemporary experiences and perspectives of African Americans, including the Black Lives Matter movement.
Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora is a comprehensive collection of stories from Africa and the African Diaspora, offering short stories and folktales, ranging thematically from oral traditions that date back many hundreds of years to contemporary tales of modern life. In addition to these works, the database includes complete runs of selected literary magazines, such as Kyk-Over-Al and The Beacon. It features over 11,707 short stories and more than 82,061 pages.
Black Studies Center
Black Studies in Video
Black Thought and Culture This resource provides access to the published works of numerous historically important black leaders and features unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. Subjects include segregation, poverty, education, religion, civil rights, and more.
Black Women Writers
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
Caribbean Literature
Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876
Chicago Tribune Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
Chicano Database
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Digital Collections @ FAU Libraries
Digital Collections from the Library of Congress
Digital Library of the Caribbean
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Open Access DPLA connects people to the riches held within Americas libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLAphotographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much moreare free and immediately available in digital format. The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nations largest cultural institutions.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Early Encounters in North America
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
To search Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Nineteenth Century Collections Online simultaneously, see the Artemis Primary Sources database.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Florida Digital Newspaper Library
Florida Heritage Collection (FHC)
Florida Memory Project
Florida Newspaper Database
Florida on Florida
Florida Open Academic Library Open Access A statewide searchable database of digital archives and collections. It includes all collections contained in the Inventory of Digital Libraries and Collections held by Florida Public Universities and State Colleges 2019 Update, all collections within FALSC hosted platforms (i.e. FL-Islandora, Florida OJ), and identified OER collections (i.e. Open Textbook Library, Open Stax) held by Florida institutions.
Gale Primary Sources Gale Primary Sources combines Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online (modules 1-4), The Times Digital Archive, and Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, allowing users to search all databases simultaneously. These primary source collections include digitized monographs, personal diaries, manuscripts, photographs, and maps.
Gilded Age
HarpWeek
Historical Atlanta Daily World
Historical Chicago Defender
Historical Los Angeles Sentinel
Historical Los Angeles Times
Historical New York Amsterdam News
Historical New York Times
Historical Pittsburgh Courier
Historical Statistics of the United States
Historical Wall Street Journal
Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
Images of America: A History of American Life in Images and Texts
Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America Student Tech Fee Funded Spanning four centuries, this digital resource provides access to material from collections like the Newberry Library's Edward E. Ayer Collection. Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the 17th century right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a range of original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.
Internet Movie Database
Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954 This collection of original source materials explores the history of Jewish communities in America. The material is based on a variety of original manuscript collections from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York, digitized and organized into six major collections and twenty-four collections of personal papers.

Latin American Newspapers
Latin American Women Writers
Latino Literature Latino Literature brings together more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and over 450 plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States. Some items included have never been published before. Researchers will also find numerous Chicano folk tales and audio files of selected poems and plays.
LGBT Studies in Video LGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. This collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
LitFinder (Gale Literature) LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. For students or patrons seeking a deeper view into literature, LitFinder also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more!
Los Angeles Times Also see Historical Los Angeles Times. Major daily newspaper from Los Angeles. With the nation's largest editorial department, it offers extensive coverage of national, international, and local news.
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries
Music Online: African American Music Reference
Music Online: Classical Music Reference Library
NAACP Papers (History Vault)
Nation Archive
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
North American Indian Thought and Culture
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
NYPL Digital Gallery
PALMM Collection
Periodicals Archive Online

Primary Sources Resource Guide

ProQuest One Literature This database replaces Literature Online (LION). ProQuest One Literature contains a large amount of primary works, including rare texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theater performances, and author readings. In addition, there are citations from thousands of journals, monographs, and dissertations. Other sources, such as book reviews and criticism, are found in interdisciplinary publications ranging from the humanities to history, thus providing diverse, global perspectives in sources from all over the world, the majority being full-text.

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