National Historical Publications & Records Commission

Digital Resources

State Archives and Collaboratives

Online resources to records collections held by repositories in the states.

The Digital Public Library of America (https://dp.la/ ) features some 52 million records from collections across the country, including NHPRC-supported projects. Many are drawn from state archives and historical societies.

Alabama Department of Archives and History Digital Collections: http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/ and Alabama Mosaic: http://www.alabamamosaic.org/about.php

Alaska’s Digital Archives: https://vilda.alaska.edu/ and the Alaska State Archives: https://archives.alaska.gov/

Arkansas Digital Archives: https://ar-digital.contentdm.oclc.org/

Arizona Memory Project: https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/

CALISPHERE: https://calisphere.org/ is part of the Online Archive of California. See also the California State Archives at https://www.sos.ca.gov/archives/

Colorado State Archives: https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/archives/PublicRecords and the Plains to Peaks Collective: https://ppc.cvlsites.org/ . See also History Colorado: https://www.historycolorado.org/archives

Connecticut Digital Archive: https://www.ctdigitalarchive.org/ and the Connecticut State Library and Archives: https://ctstatelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/

Delaware Public Archives: https://archives.delaware.gov/digital-archives/

Historical Society of Washington, DC: https://dchistory.catalogaccess.com/

Florida Memory: floridamemory.com and La Florida: the Interactive Archive of the Americas: http://laflorida.org/

Digital Library of Georgia: https://dlg.usg.edu/ and Georgia Archives Virtual Vault: https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/

Digital Archives of Hawaii: https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/

Idaho State Archives: https://idahohistory.contentdm.oclc.org/

Iowa Heritage Digital Collections: https://www.iowaheritage.org/

Illinois Digital Archives: http://www.idaillinois.org/

Indiana Memory: https://digital.library.in.gov/

Kansas Memory: https://www.kansasmemory.org/

Kentucky Digital Library: https://kdl.kyvl.org/

Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/

Maine Memory Network: https://www.mainememory.net/

Digital Maryland: https://collections.digitalmaryland.org/digital/

Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts Collections Online: https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/ and Massachusetts Historical Society: https://www.masshist.org/collections/online

Michiganology: https://michiganology.org/

Minnesota Digital Library: https://mndigital.org/

Missouri Digital Heritage: https://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/

Mississippi Digital Archives: http://www.mdah.ms.gov/arrec/digital_archives/

Montana Memory: https://www.mtmemory.org/ and the Big Sky Digital Network: http://bscdn.org/

History Nebraska: https://historynebraska.catalogaccess.com/

Nevada State Archives: https://nsla.nv.gov/archives

New Hampshire State Archives: https://www.sos.nh.gov/archives-and-records-management/

New Jersey State Archives: https://www.nj.gov/state/archives/search.html

New Mexico History: http://newmexicohistory.org/ and New Mexico Digital Collections: https://econtent.unm.edu/digital/

New York State Archives: http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/, New York State Library: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/scandocs/ and New York Public Library Digital Collections: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections

North Carolina Digital Collections: https://digital.ncdcr.gov/ and Digital North Carolina: https://www.digitalnc.org/

North Dakota Digital Horizons: http://digitalhorizonsonline.org/ (also some material from South Dakota)

Ohio Memory: https://www.ohiomemory.org/

Oklahoma Digital Prairie: https://digitalprairieok.net/

Oregon State Archives: https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/Pages/default.aspx

Pennsylvania State Archives Research Online: https://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/default.aspx, Historical Society of Pennsylvania Digital Library: https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/ , and Power Library: http://powerlibrary.org/collections/#.Xnz9FZNKhgc

Rhode Island State Digital Archives: https://sosri.access.preservica.com/home/

South Carolina Digital Library: https://scmemory.org/ and University of South Carolina Digital Library: https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/digital_collections/index.php

South Dakota Digital Archives: https://sddigitalarchives.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/ and Digital Horizons: http://digitalhorizonsonline.org/

Tennessee Virtual Archives: https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/global/pages/index.html and the Digital Library of Tennessee: https://tntel.info/resource/digital-library-tennessee

Texas Digital Archives: https://tsl.access.preservica.com/ and Portal to Texas History: https://texashistory.unt.edu/

Digital Utah: https://archives.utah.gov/research/digital and the Digital Library at University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/

Vermont History: https://vermonthistory.org/digital-resources/ and Green Mountain Digital Archive: https://libraries.vermont.gov/green-mountain-digital-archive

Virginia Memory: http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/

Washington State Digital Archives: https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/

West Virginia Archives: http://www.wvculture.org/history/archivesindex.aspx

The State of Wisconsin Digital Collections: https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/WI/ , Wisconsin Historical Society: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/ , and Recollection Wisconsin: https://recollectionwisconsin.org/

Wyoming Archives Digital Collections: https://wyoarchives.wyo.gov/index.php/find-it-in-the-archives/digital-collections and Plains to Peaks Collective: https://ppc.cvlsites.org/

Territorial Collections

Puerto Rico Archives: https://www.archivespuertorico.com/ , Archivo Digital de Puerto Rico: http://adnpr.net/ , and the Digital Archives of the Caribbean: https://dloc.com/iupr

Northern Marianas Humanities Council: http://www.nmhcouncil.org/digital-archive/

University of Guam Digital Repository: http://hasso.uog.edu:8080/jspui/handle/20.500.11751/2

Virtual Collections

Historical records collections drawn from multiple repositories

Founders Online: founders.archives.gov – the papers to and from George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin. 185,000 searchable documents

Bexar Archives: https://www.cah.utexas.edu/projects/bexar/index.php are the official Spanish documents that preserve the political, military, economic, and social life of the Spanish province of Texas and the Mexican state of Coahulia y Texas.

Black Abolitionist Papers: http://bap.chadwyck.com/marketing/ access to 15,000 items by subscription

Densho Archives: https://densho.org/archives / contain primary sources that document the Japanese American experience from immigration in the early 1900s through redress in the 1980s, with a strong focus on the World War II mass incarceration.

Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks Petitions Project: http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/petitions/index.aspx?s=1 a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color.