A-Z Resources

Ben's Guide - Learn about Ben Franklin’s experiences as a printer, statesman, librarian and inventor.

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States - For students and researchers, a select collection of primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.

Chronicling America - Identifies historic American newspapers published between 1690 and the present, and provides a selection of digitized newspaper pages. Includes issues of some Connecticut papers including the Bridgeport Evening Farmer, the Norwich Bulletin, and the Waterbury Democrat.

ConneCT kids portal to all things Connecticut.

Connecticut Archives Online - Guide to special collections available on-site at Connecticut libraries, historical societies, and other repositories of documents and manuscripts.

Connecticut Digital Collections - Large collection of Connecticut primary source materials, with digitized texts, maps, photographs, paintings, letters, and images of museum artifacts.

Connecticut History Illustrated (CHI) - From Connecticut libraries and other cultural heritage organizations, thousands of digitized book and periodical volumes, manuscripts, photographs, prints, drawings, oral histories, and maps.

Hartford Courant Historical - Digitized archive of the Hartford, Connecticut newspaper, with full-text issues from 1764 to 1922.

History Reference Center - Full-text database of U.S. and world history, featuring books, journals, biographies, primary source documents, and historical videos.

National Geographic for Kids - Web companion to the popular kids magazine, this site has information, games, quizzes, videos and more.

Explore news articles from The New York Times’ historical archives. (Covers 1851 to 2020)

Learn how to access digital media on Hoopla, Libby (OverDrive) and Kanopy. There are also tutorials for Consumer Reports, Tutor.com, Ancestry.com and many more online resources.