Databases

Data.census.gov is the primary platform to access data and digital content from the United States Census Bureau.

Umbra Search brings together hundreds of thousands digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country to make African American history more broadly accessible.

Umbra Search celebrates the vital efforts of the individuals and institutions that have helped to preserve and make accessible online hundreds of thousands of pieces of African American history and culture, and pays homage to the Umbra Society of the early 1960s, a renegade group of Black writers and poets who helped create the Black Arts Movement.

The Unitarian Universalist Congregations guide, curated by the Harvard Divinity School Library, is a collection of publications and manuscripts in the public domain that chronicle major events events in the life of historically Unitarian and Universalist congregations in the United States.

The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation’s leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.

The material in Studying Faith: Qualitative Methodologies for Studying Religious Communities is organized as a set of 17 frequently asked questions (FAQs) about how to apply social scientific methodologies to studying faith and religion.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 provides authoritative documentation of camps, ghettos, and other persecutory sites operated by the Nazi regime and its allies in a vast network that extended across the European continent and reached as far as the Soviet Union and North Africa. It is the most comprehensive resource on the Nazi camp universe, detailing the complexities of the camps and their impact on millions of inmates.

The series comprises 7 volumes that will document approximately 6,000 sites in narrative format. Each volume provides foundational information on a particular subset of camps organized according to type, subordination, or distinct inmate population. Entries also describe the camps' evolution and their links to other sites to illuminate the persecutory system as a whole. Photographs, charts, and maps supplement the text.

Working Preacher is a ministry brought to you by Luther Seminary. The Working Preacher team believes that God uses good biblical preaching to change lives. They have enlisted biblical scholars, theologians, homileticians and pastors dedicated to the craft of biblical preaching to provide you timely, compelling and trustworthy content. On the site you’ll find exegetical material geared to the weekly lectionary, resources and insights on the Craft of Preaching blog, a scripture index, and podcasts.

By connecting thousands of libraries’ collections in one place, WorldCat.org makes it easy to browse the world’s libraries from one easy search box.

The Slave Narrative Collection, a group of autobiographical accounts of former slaves, today stands as one of the most enduring and noteworthy achievements of the WPA, Compiled in seventeen states during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than two thousand interviews with former slaves, most of them first-person accounts of slave life and the respondents' own reactions to bondage.

The Zinn Education Project supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms. The website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and grade level. Based on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, the teaching materials emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history.