Genealogy & Local History

As a new American nation emerged in the 1800s, the first draft of history was written by those who experienced it and recorded it in newspaper pages from coast to coast. Nineteenth Century U.S.

A listing of African-American historical newspapers and magazines across the United States that can be read online

Find birth, death, and census records. Ancestry is available at home to our patrons until September 2021. Learn more with the Ancestry LibGuide.

ArchiveGrid includes over 7 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more.

AtoZdatabases is the Premier Job Search, Reference & Mailing List Database including 30 million business & executive profiles & 240 million residents.

Biography Reference Center provides thousands of reliable full-text biographies, including the complete full text of Biography Today and Biography, plus narrative biographies not available in other da

DPLA offers a one-stop discovery experience for more than 40 million digital cultural heritage objects—images, text, videos, and audio clips—aggregated from 40-plus libraries, archives, and museums across the United States.

Extensive digital collection of Southeast Oklahoma newspapers dating from the 1800s to the present. Due to copyright restrictions only accessible inside the library or connected to our Wi-Fi.

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) includes sixteen thematic collections of primary sources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture.