These resources require either a valid library card number from a participating library

or a Michigan Drivers License or State ID.

Women's History Month Resources

Biographies of Famous Women: From Abigail Adams, to Hillary Clinton, to Michelle Obama, find biographies of many influential women at this website compiled by Gale Cengage Learning.

Women's History Resources: On this website from Gale Cengage Learning, find free resources including activities, quizzes, biographies, a timeline and more .

Women's History Timeline: This timeline from Gale Cengage Learning features milestones in women's history from ancient times through the present.

 General History and Art Resources

African American World:  A great site for African American History from PBS.

 CAMIO® - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online: Recommended for: General user. CAMIO®—Catalog of Art Museum Images Online—is a premiere resource of works of art from around the world contributed and described by leading museums. Showcasing a wide range of fine and decorative art, CAMIO provides high-quality art images for education, research and enjoyment. All content is rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes. Michigan residents or Michigan library access only.

  Fine Arts and Music Collection: With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide your students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

 Hand Press Book: Recommended for: Colleges and Universities.
The Hand Press Book Database is a unique and growing catalog of European printing in the early modern era or "hand-press period" (15th century to the 1830s). This resource integrates descriptive records for major European national, university and research library holdings. It is especially valuable for research in intellectual history, social history and transmission of thought—as well as the history of printing and the history of the book. Michigan residents access only.

 HeritageQuest Online: Recommended for: Genealogy, local history and biography researchers. Some full text. HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images and extensive indexing from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 22,000 digitized book titles, including early family histories and local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records and more. It also includes Periodical Source Index (PERSI), Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, the Freedman's Bank Records, and the U.S. Serial Set Private Relief Actions, Memorials and Petitions. Michigan residents or Michigan library access only.

 InfoTrac U.S. History Collection: This collection of over 40 journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in US History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field; useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.

 InfoTrac War and Terrorism Collection: A definitive collection for students of history, social science and current events, providing insight into conflicts and their multiple causes. References include 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

 InfoTrac World History Collection: This collection of over 40 journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field; useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.

Making of Modern Michigan: Recommended for: General user. Some full text. Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials and much more from local history collections around the state. No login required.

 MeL Michigana: Explore Michigan's heritage through photographs, diaries, oral histories, local records and historical data.

Seeking Michigan: This site features a growing collection of unique historical information that - through digitized source documents, maps, films, images, oral histories and artifacts - creatively tells the stories of Michigan's families, homes, businesses, communities and landscapes. The project is a collaboration that has long been in the making between the Archives of Michigan and the Library of Michigan.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: 

 SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs: Recommended for: General user and Colleges and universities. Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs is the only online union catalog of auction catalog records in existence. This database provides bibliographic access to auction sales catalogs from all major North American and European auction houses as well as private sales—valuable sources of information on the provenance of art objects and rare books, the history of collection, and contemporary and historical market trends. Michigan residents or Michigan library access only.