History and Culture

Access more than 19 million aerial photos of rural America from the 1960s to early 2000s, including more than 2 Million in Ohio.

The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today. Self-guided video

Access to all World Book modules including Early Learning, Kids, Student, Timelines plus editions in Spanish and French.

Offers concise high school level introductions to a plethora of topics and disciplines.

Large-scale detailed maps dating from 1882 through 1962, depicting the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of Ohio cities. Self-guided video

This historical newspaper collection coverage includes The Chicago Tribune, LA Times, NYT, WSJ, and The Washington Post from 1849 – 2021.

Peer-reviewed summaries on history, business, English, language arts, health, government, history, social studies. Self-guided video

Contains historical newspapers from the early 1700s into the 2000s with full runs and portions of runs of well-known, global, regional, and state titles to small local newspapers. Self-guided video

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.  Self-guided video

Search for ancestors by name and narrow results by year and location covering historical Ohio newspapers.

Search and access the National Geographic magazine from 1888-to present day. Self-guided video

Through our Local History Department, we are pleased to partner with Ohio Memory to present our growing digital archive which includes collections featuring historical documents, maps and atlases, photographs and more!

A nonprofit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Trace family and local history censuses from 1790-1940, city directories, slave schedules, Indian Census rolls and more. Self-guided video

Hathi Trust is a partnership of academic and research institutions offering a collection of millions of open access titles digitized from libraries around the world. Self-guided video

Access books and publications within arts, biography, business, education, the environment, history, LGBTQ, medicine, multicultural studies, race, and civil rights. Self-guided video

A premier collection of historical U.S. military records that brings to life the details of America’s military veterans with stories, photos, and personal documents. Self-guided video

Provides user-friendly features and easy-to-browse categories of reliable content from the world’s leading sources. Self-guided video

Comprehensive information on countries, states, and territories. Includes printable maps, flags, symbols, and recipes. Self-guided video

African American newspapers sourced from nearly 19,000 global newspapers from 1704 to the present with full-text searching by topic, event, and eras Self-guided video

Provides biographies, obituaries and photographs of thousands of individuals – both living and deceased. Updated monthly. Self-guided video

Search the United States, United Kingdom and Canadian census records, military records, wills, and government documents. Only available inside the Library. Self-guided video

Discover your family ancestry by searching for names primarily covering New England. Only available inside Main Library.

Find obituaries and death notices published in newspapers dating back to 1704; funeral home notices dating back to 2019; and Social Security Death Index (SSDI) records, which mostly cover the period between 1935 and 2014. Self-guided video

African-American (Black) genealogical and biographical research, federal census, slave and freed person registers, marriage and military records and AfriGeneas. Self-guided video Self-guided video