Library Class and Subject Guides: History Day 2025: Resources to Use at Home

Getting Resources at Home

Resources to Use at Home

There are plenty of resources you can get without even leaving your house. Resources listed on these pages will be available to you from home, as long as there is internet access. Some of the ELM-provided resources are available only to Minnesota residents, and may require a public library card.

Primary Sources: All Topics

Academic Search Premier (provided by ELM)
Full-text and citation materials to various articles on almost all academic subjects.
Student Research (provided by ELM)
Links to discovering age appropriate encyclopedia content, biographies and critical essays about literature, history, biography, science, and social studies.
Global Newsstream (provided by ELM)
Citations and selected full text to newspaper articles. Updated daily. *This resource is provided by the Electronic Library of Minnesota, freely accessible to anyone in Minnesota!*
MasterFILE Premier (provided by ELM)
Citations, biographies, maps, flags, primary source documents, and full text to articles about business, health, education, science, and cultural issues. *This resource is provided by the Electronic Library of Minnesota, freely accessible to anyone in Minnesota!*
Research in Context (provided by ELM)
A middle school-appropriate database of reference works, biographies, magazine and journal articles, primary source documents, and multimedia. *This resource is provided by the Electronic Library of Minnesota, freely accessible to anyone in Minnesota!*

Primary Sources: Minnesota Topics

ARCH: University Archives Digital Collections
Find photos, yearbooks, periodicals and other historical documents online in the continually expanding University Archives Digital Collections.
Becoming Minnesotan | Stories of Recent Immigrants and Refugees
Overviews and oral histories from immigrant groups in Minnesota including Asian Indian, Filipino, Hmong, Khmer, Latino, Somali, and Tibetan populations.
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Information, images, surnames, cemetery index, and index of articles published in and about Blue Earth County.
Historical Minneapolis Tribune (1867-1922)
Browsable, full-image archive of the newspaper from 1867-1922.
Minnesota Legislative Reference Library Catalog
Information and links to full-text state documents about Minnesota issues.
Minnesota Newspaper Collections in Minnesota Reflections
Currently includes; GLC Voice (1979-1992), Iapi Oaye, (1871 – 1939), The Ojibwe News (1988 – 2009), The Organizer (1934), Pierz Journal (1909 – 1913), Pine River Journal (1935 – 1946), The Sauk Centre Herald (1867 – 1868), The Word Carrier (1884 – 1939).
Minnesota Reflections - Minnesota Digital Library
Images, documents, maps, and more from around Minnesota.
Minnesota Video Vault
Programs, interviews, news, current productions and documentaries from Twin Cities Public Television.
MNHS.ORG | Minnesota Historical Society
MSU Student Magazines
Digital versions of Minnesota State University Mankato's student magazines.
Reporter - Minnesota State University, Mankato Student Newspaper, 1926-present
Digitized issues of the Reporter available from ARCH: University Archives Digital Collections. New content is being added regularly.
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center – Library Services – Minnesota State University, Mankato
Special collections featuring university history as well as regional history.

Primary Source: American Topics

Primary Sources: International Topics

African Journal Archive
Digitized archive of African Journals.
Asia For Educators
Links, primary sources, and guides to a variety of Asian historical topics.
BlackPast.org: Global African History
Online encyclopedias, primary documents, and links to other resources.
EuroDocs
Primary historical documents, transcriptions, facsimiles, and translations from Western Europe.
Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)
"The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication."
Library also has many issues in the Government Documents Collection (1st Floor) S 1.1:
Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center
Links to Hmong-related websites, including the Hmong Studies Virtual Library.
Japan Center for Asian Historical Resource
National Archives of Japan - Some material is digitized and in English
Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection (Harvard)
More than 5000 digitized primary documents from Latin America. Mostly in Spanish and Portuguese.
National Archives - United Kingdom
Guides, online material and more from the National Archives of the United Kingdom..
The Middle East: a Documentary Record 1916-2001
Primary documents from the Middle East.
The Tibetan and Himalayan Library
Resources related to Tibet and the Himalayas.
Travel Film Archive—Stock Footage From Around the World
Video clips from around the world, 1900-1970.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Web Links for European History
Websites referenced in Oxford University Press titles.

Secondary Sources: All Topics

Academic Search Premier (provided by ELM)
Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from over 4,600 publications, covering almost every academic subject.
Britannica Library (provided by ELM)
Encyclopedia content for all ages.
Britannica Online Academic Edition
Updated material, new collections, and quotations on a wide array of topics.
Student Resources In Context (provided by ELM)
Reference works, biographies, essays, overviews, primary works, images, and articles about literature, science, health, history, and more.

Video Resources

Resources for All Minnesotans

eLibrary Minnesota is a website linking you to all of Minnesota's Online Library Services Access to these resources is available to every Minnesotan with a valid public library card. These resources are also available to anyone while in the Memorial Library.

eLibrary Minnesota
Links to library resources for all Minnesotans.