Massachusetts Historical Society

The Massachusetts Historical Society is proud to be the sponsor of Massachusetts History Day. 

History Source - Drawn from MHS collections, our primary source sets promote learning in U.S. history and civics and are supported by teaching activities and guiding questions

ABIGAIL - Online library catalog of the MHS 

Digital Collections

Collection Guides

• Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Related to African American History
• Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Related to Disability History
• Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Related to Native American History
• Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Related to the History of Sexuality

Adams Presidential Library 

Thomas Jefferson Papers

Indigenous Educational Resources

Primary Source Cooperative 

Massachusetts Libraries and Archives 

The Boston Public Library

• Norman B. Leventhal Map Center

Harvard Library

•  Hollis Image Collection 

Harvard Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

• Digitized Collections

Harvard Countway Library's Center for the History of Medicine

• CURIOSity Digital Collections
• OnView 
• Medical Heritage Library 

The Mary Baker Eddy Library

The American Antiquarian Society

• Digital Resources

The John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum 

• Digitized Collections

The Center for Lowell History:

• Digital Collections

The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center 

• Digital Archives

Northeastern University

• Digital Repository Service

Local, National, and Global Digital Archives 

Africa Online Digital Archive - Open access digital library of African cultural heritage materials created by Michigan State University in collaboration with museums, archives, scholars, and communities around the world

American Archive of Public Broadcasting - More than 50,000 hours of digitized public broadcasting programs and original materials

Avalon Project - Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government from ancient history to the 21st century

Digital Library of the Caribbean - Open access to Caribbean cultural, historical, scientific and research materials held in archives, libraries, museums, private collections, and other institutions of memory and preservation

Digital Public Library of America -  Millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience 

Digital Transgender Archives - Online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world on transgender history 

EuroDocs - European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated, in addition to video or sound files, maps, photographs or other imagery, databases, and other documentation

International Encyclopedia of the First World War - Largest digital English-language reference work on the First World War

Internet History Sourcebooks Project - Collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts that cover a wide variety of topics including Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history, as well as women's history and LGBT studies 

Library of Congress - Largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections

• Chronicling America - Millions of newspaper pages from nearly every state and territory in the United States published through 1963

Medieval Digital Resources - Curated database of peer-reviewed digital materials for the study of the Middle Ages

National Archives - Archives of the United States 

Slave Voyages - Records about the origins and forced transportation of more than twelve million African peoples across the Atlantic and within the Americas

South Asia Open Archives (SOAA) - Contains over 30,000 digitized print items from the late-eighteenth into the twenty-first century

Umbra - Digitization of African American materials across University of Minnesota collections

Massachusetts Historical Societies, Museums, and Historic Sites

• The Basketball Hall of Fame
• Cambridge Historical Commission
• The Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
• The Concord Museum
• The Clara Barton Birthplace Museum
• The Falmouth Historical Society
• The Hancock Shaker Village
• The Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Arts
• Historic Deerfield
• Historic Northampton Museum and Education Center
• Mashpee Wampanoag Museum
• Marblehead Museum
• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum
• The Museum of African American History
• The Museum of Fine Arts Boston
• National Park Foundation
• The National Park Service Massachusetts
• The New Bedford Whaling Museum
• Old Sturbridge Village
• The Peabody Essex Museum
• The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard
• Plimoth Patuxet Museum
• Tsongas Industrial History Center
• Springfield Museums
• The USS Constitution Museum
• Worcester Historical Museum
• American Ancestors by New England Genealogical Society