Heritage & Museum Studies

This resource provides access to nearly a million descriptions of detailed archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives worldwide.

A digital library of more than two million images. Artstor includes items in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. It also provides a suite of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching. *Images in Artstor are rights-cleared for educational use.*

The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.

Directory of digitized images, documents, and other materials.

This is an exhaustive collection US federal and state laws about slavery, and legislative speeches. It includes hundreds out of copyright books, pamphlets, and journals, with some content behind a pay wall.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963. View newspaper pages 1860-1925 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. You can also limit by State and ethnicity.

Concordia College's student-run news publication. It's first issue came out in 1920. The newspaper is a popular source for campus and world news. It serves as an excellent resource for examining the history and life of Concordia's community.

Digital Horizonsis an online treasure house of thousands of images, documents, video, and oral histories depicting life on the Northern Plains from the late 1800s to today. Here you'll find a fascinating snapshot of the lives, culture, and history of the people who shaped life on the prairies.

The print version of this index covers 1976 - 1993 and is available in the Periodical Indexes collection. The online version of this resource provides indexing only (no full text) from 1879 - 1995.

A comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day.

Offers a collection of millions of digitized titles from libraries around the world.

The Minneapolis Tribune was published six to seven days a week from 1867 to 1982, when it merged with the Minneapolis Star to form the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. It was variously known as Minneapolis Daily Tribune, Sunday Tribune, the Tribune, Daily Minnesota Tribune and Minneapolis Morning Tribune. Issues published after 1922 were not digitized due to copyright restrictions.

Daily Minnesota tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.; St. Paul, Minn.) 1882-1884
Minneapolis daily tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1867-1876
Minneapolis daily tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1884-1886
Minneapolis morning tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1909-1930
Minneapolis tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1876-1877
Minneapolis tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1886-1909
Tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1877-1882

INFORUM is the online newspaper for Fargo, North Dakota. Access a limited number of recent INFORUM articles for free. For unlimited and archival access, see the Forum Online Edition.

Offers over 15,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts including 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.

A searchable website from the Minnesota Historical Society that makes hundreds of thousands of pages of Minnesota newspapers available online. The Hub contains geographically and culturally diverse newspapers published between 1856 and today.

Index for birth, death and veteran's graves. Index and digitized MN census records.

Database of digitized original materials shared by cultural heritage organizations located across our state. These materials include images, text, audio, film, and more, with new items added on a regular basis. The resources found on this site support research for scholars, educators, students, and the public.

Search the 740,000 items in The New York Public Library's digital collections, including prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

Umbra Search is a digital library that aggregates materials documenting African American history and cultural life from archives, libraries, museums, and other US repositories. Umbra Search features thumbnail images and descriptive information about photographs, manuscripts, documents, books, sound files, video files, and other freely available resources.