Research Guides: History: Websites and Streaming Videos

Videos and Multimedia

HippoCampus - History
Core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge.
PBS Video Collection
This collection assembles hundreds of the greatest documentary films and series from the history of the Public Broadcasting Service into one convenient online interface.
Kanopy
Access to digital films in a variety of subjects. You will need to create an account to use Kanopy.

Library Tools

Tri-C Classic Catalog
To locate materials by title or subject, use the classic catalog.
My Library Account
Renew books, review holds, and check for book deliveries.

Electronic Book Center OhioLINK This link opens in a new window
Contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books from several publishers, covering many subject areas.
OhioLINK Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
A combined catalog of millions of books and other library materials from many of Ohio's universities, colleges, community colleges, and the State Library of Ohio.
EBSCO Electronic Journal Finder (OhioLINK) This link opens in a new window
Use the EBSCO Electronic Journal Finder to determine whether a particular journal (and article) is available online through OhioLINK.
Electronic Journal Center (EJC) This link opens in a new window
Contains full text articles from more than 10,000 academic journals from top scholarly publishers, academic societies, and university presses. The EJC covers a wide range of disciplines and contains just published scientific research as well as historical journal articles.

Local Resources

Cleveland Public Library - Obituary File
An online version of a microfilmed file that contains local cemetery records and newspaper death notices gathered by the staff of the Cleveland Public Library
Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery
Direct access to selected resources from the collections of the Cleveland Public Library. The collection is diverse and contains significant material regarding the history of City of Cleveland.
Historic Pittsburgh
Very similar to the Cleveland Memory Project.
The Cleveland Memory Project: Cleveland History in Photos, Videos, and More
Cleveland State University Library's "Cleveland Memory Project".

U.S. History

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
America in the 1930s
A collection of resources provided by the University of Virginia's American Studies program.
A Chronology of US Historical Documents
Full text documents made available by the University of Oklahoma Digital Commons.
Archival Research Catalog (ARC) of the National Archives
An official U.S. Government web resource.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
A variety of collections ranging from Advertising to Women's History
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Chronicling America is a searchable collection of U.S. newspapers that have been fully digitized. The collection includes newspapers published between 1789 and 1963.
HathiTrust
Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items.
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HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.
Digital Public Library of America
Primary Sources for United States History
Use the navigation buttons on the left to select between:
Colonial
Revolution to Antebellum
Civil War
Reconstruction to WWI
WWI to WWII
World War II
Post World War I

International

European History Research Guide
Yale University's collection of web resources. This guide is divided by regions of Western Europe (Austrian, UK, French, etc).

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