Social Sciences & History Librarian
Related Guides
Animal History Research Guides and Online Collections
- Animal Studies Biography: Michigan State UniversityComprehensive bibliography of works on animal studies across disciplines. Updated continually. Does not provide links to cited resources, just citations.
- Picturing Animals in National GeographicA tool for researchers interested in animal conservation and exploring the relationship humans have with other animals as photographed and narrated over the 20th century by National Geographic magazine
Historical Magazines and Newspapers
Along with the below, strongly consider also using the library catalog to find physical items in the collection related to your topic (primary and secondary).
- Wildlife in North Carolina MagazineOfficial educational publication of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.
- Life Magazine ArchivePresents an extensive collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning from its very first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000 in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format. Published by Time Inc., the magazine has featured story-telling through documentary photographs and informative captions. Each issue visually and powerfully depicted national and international events and topical stories, providing intimate views of real people and their real life situations.
- Times (London) Digital ArchiveThe Times Digital Archive, 1785–2006 makes 221 years of this highly regarded resource available for students and researchers of 19th-, 20th-, and early 21st-century history, literature, culture, business, art, art history, architecture, and more. Every complete page of every issue is full-text searchable — every headline, article, editorial, announcement, image and advertisement.
- Nation ArchiveThe Nation is an important clearinghouse of primary source material in America and around the world. The archive includes perspectives on news, politics, and culture from writers, artists, novelists, and playwrights. The Nation Archive is a fully searchable electronic version of the magazine's complete backfile, dating back to the magazine's first issue from July 6, 1865.
- National Review ArchiveNational Review has been an important American journal of opinion and has provides readers with well-reasoned editorial commentary on critical issues. National Review Archive offers complete indexing, abstracting and full text for the magazine from the first issue in 1955 to the present.
General Online Collections
- ARTstor Digital LibraryAs of August 1, 2024 the Artstor platform has been retired and its content migrated to JSTOR, where Artstor content and key functionality can be accessed. All Artstor users can use their existing Artstor accounts to access Artstor on JSTOR.
- Digital Public Library of AmericaProvides access to millions of images, photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, and more from libraries, archives, and museums across the U.S.
- Library of Congress Digital CollectionsDigitized, freely available primary sources from the Library of Congress. (Collection formerly known as the American Memory Project)
- New York Public Library Digital CollectionsResource provides digitized collections from The New York Public Library. Includes photography collections, early American manuscripts, fashion collections, and nature collections. The website also provides maps and atlases, as well as collections about New York City.
- Smithsonian Libraries Digital CollectionsOver 35,000 books, manuscripts, photos, ephemera, and seed catalogs from the Smithsonian Institution.
- Digital NC - Newspapers"The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."