History & humanities
Digital Public Library of America
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History & humanitiesfree
Search millions of digitized items from American libraries, archives and museums in one place. Handy for locating primary sources on US history topics.
DPLA searches across digitized collections from thousands of American libraries, archives, and museums at once, saving the work of checking each institution separately when hunting for primary sources on a US history topic. Since it's an aggregator, how much detail and metadata comes with an item depends on the contributing institution, not DPLA itself.
Import into Gemini Notebook
- 1Copy the link above (or a specific page from the site).
- 2In your notebook, click Add source → Website.
- 3Paste the link and confirm — several links can be pasted at once, one per line.
Archives return scans and item pages rather than clean text — look for a transcript, PDF, or article summary before importing the artifact page itself.
More history & humanities sources
- EuropeanaDigitized art, books, photos and artifacts from European cultural institutions. Item pages carry rich metadata for history and heritage research.
- Gale Primary SourcesLicensed archives of historical newspapers, government records and rare books. Access runs through subscribing libraries; downloaded scans can be uploaded.
- JSTORArchive of scholarly journals and books, strongest in humanities and social science. Downloaded article PDFs import cleanly as sources.
- Library of CongressDigitized manuscripts, maps, newspapers, and photographs from the US national library. Item pages and scanned documents are free primary sources.
- Loeb Classical Library (Digital)Greek and Latin classics side by side with English translations. Individual text pages import cleanly as Website sources for classics research notebooks.
- MLA International BibliographyThe standard index for finding scholarship on literature, language, and folklore. Use it via a library to locate papers, then import the full texts you find.
- Olympic Studies Centre & Olympic World LibraryThe IOC's archive of official reports and research on the Games. Digitized documents suit notebooks on sports history and Olympic policy.
- Perseus Digital LibraryGreek and Latin classics with English translations and commentary. Individual text pages import cleanly as Website sources for classics study.
- PhilPapersThe go-to index for philosophy literature, with category-based browsing. Many entries link open-access PDFs you can drop straight into a notebook.
- Project MUSEUniversity-press journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. A growing open-access subset imports freely; the rest needs library access.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyRigorous, regularly updated philosophy articles written by specialists. Each entry is a self-contained Website source that anchors a topic well.