Open/Free Resources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (commonly known as Turabian), is the authoritative resource on Chicago Style, tailored to the writing needs of students and researchers. This quick guide provides citation examples for commonly used sources.

Online collection of photographs related to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Curated by I. Marc Carlson, the former Librarian of Special Collections at the University of Tulsa's McFarlin Library.