History Resource: Online Archives!

Lifehacker had a great post this week featuring some of the archives available on the internet. These are a great resource for your students doing research. Some of the archives listed in the article (as well as those mentioned by commenters - good stuff!) were:

Time Magazine has archived all of its articles since 1923. Using this archive is a great way to get "as it was" journalism in the hands of your students....It's also a great way to teach them that they need to be smart about their search terms. If you type in Battle of the Bulge, for example, you'll be inundated with recent articles on weight-gaining Americans rather than on-the-spot reporting from the front lines in France. A tremendous resource -- it's free, although your students will be subjected to a ton of advertisements (as in many magazines).

The David Rumsey Map Collection, an archive of over 15,000 maps online, is huge. If you know what you're looking for, it's wonderful.

Google News Archives is listed as "an easy way to browse past copies of newspapers, journals and news magazines. In addition, Wikipedia has compiled a long list of online newspaper archives."

The Rockefeller Archives has "literally hundreds of thousands of documents are available here for viewing in at least six different archival collections."

Mutopia has music archives organized by instrument, composer and style.

More than 170 companion sites to episodes of NOVA, the public television science program.

The Smithsonian magazine has an archive for every magazine published from 1995 to the present; you can also browse past copies of Air and Space magazine.

It's possible that the Obsolete Computers archive has pictures of machines we still use in public schools....

The National Archives, a vast collection of archived historical documents available to the general public. There's also the Archive of Folk Culture, the archive of terrorist attacks on the United States, and the Department of Labor archives.

National Geographic Photo of the day archive: [lava.nationalgeographic.com]

The www.TheEuropeanLibrary.org gives access to the combined resources of Europe's National Libraries. It has been asked to help build a 'European digital library'. This initiative goes beyond national libraries aiming to include all digital cultural heritage collections contained in archives, museums and libraries across Europe.