Drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress, American Memory features over 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture. The materials chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas, and is organized into more than 100 thematic collections.

Aimed at making the latest in social history scholarship available to a wider public, the American Social History Project produces award-winning print, visual, and multimedia materials about the working men and women whose actions and beliefs have shaped American history.

Includes a directory of members as well as a "How to Hire a Professional" section. Board for Certification of Genealogists List of certified genealogists; also genealogy resources, including online articles on such topics as "Analyzing City Directories."

Created by The Weissman Center for International Business NYCData features extensive statistical information about New York City and each of its boroughs.

Brooklyn's historic paper of record, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1841-1902, available through the Brooklyn Public Library.

The Brooklyn Historical Society website offers information about museum and library collections. Includes a searchable database of over 33,000 Brooklyn-related photographs.

Based at George Mason University, The Center for History and New Media uses digital media and computer technology to democratize history-to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past. The Center sponsors more than a dozen digital history projects, and offers free tools and resources for historians.

Housing five institutions-American Jewish Historical Society, American, Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research-the Center holds the largest collection outside of Israel documenting the historical and cultural legacy of the Jewish people. The Center's website offers information about its collections as well as several searchable online databases of specific holdings, including those of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of the City of New York, the Industrial Removal Office, and the Jewish Immigration Information Bureau.

A NYC-based policy institute that releases studies about issues that are important to New York City, particularly economic development, education, child welfare, and workforce development.

Furnishes 64 photographs taken by Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940) between 1908 and 1912 that document American children working in mills, mines, streets, and factories, and as "newsies," seafood workers, fruit pickers, and salesmen. Also includes photos of immigrant families and children's "pastimes and vices."

An "electronic book," composed of 10 multimedia essays by European and American scholars on modern urban culture in New York and Chicago. Topics on New York City include Times Square as represented in New Year's celebrations, and tensions between turn-of-the-century representations of the Lower east Side by reformers and others. Topics on Chicago include Maxwell Street as an urban crucible and birthplace of electric blues, and the ways that Chicago has been represented as a "gateway."

A large genealogy site with information on genealogical resources, including ships, ports of departure and arrival (including NYC), and others.

The official site of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. Search passenger records, create family scrapbooks, and learn about the history of immigration to the United States through text, photos, and interactive features.

Learn what archaeologists and historians uncovered about this infamous 19th century New York City neighborhood.

Within the larger HarpWeek site-which for a hefty subscription fee allows full-text searching of all Harper's Weekly issues from 1857-1912-this collection of 13 exhibits presents free access to a wealth of texts and images taken primarily from Harper's on a variety of subjects dealing with 19th-century American political and social history.

This website of the Hispanic Genealogical Society of New York is a non-profit organization, dedicated to bringing genealogy to Hispanic Americans. Headquartered in New York City, the organization helps researchers discover their histories while bringing together a common heritage.

Developed by American Social History Project/Center for Media & Learning, City University of New York, and the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, History Matters offers primary documents, guides to evaluating historical evidence, articles and resources that link the past with current ideas and events, and other resources.

The full-text, complete with original illustrations, of the original, 1890 edition of Jacob A. Riis' How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York.

Presents two exhibits and a multitude of resources for the study of American Jewish women's contributions to their communities and the wider world.

Documents the constant growth and change of New York City's several Chinatowns. Features photographs, maps, newspaper articles, a directory of restaurants and shops, and links to additional resources.

A repository for 20th century New York City political and social history covering the mayoralties of LaGuardia, Wagner, Beame, Koch, and more...

A site promoting global and interdisciplinary urban research. Features resources for teachers and scholars, including data and maps from the 2000 U.S. census.

Living City is a digital library concerned with the urban transformation of New York from the Civil War to the end of World War One. The information is centered around health issues, the urban infrastructure and environment, and how these relate to one another. The most important source used to generate the information for Living City is the collection of Annual Reports of the New York City Department of Health, which date from 1866.

Cornell University's contributions to the digital library of primary sources in American social history. The MOA is a collaborative effort of Cornell University and the University of Michigan to preserve and provide electronic access to historical texts covering the period from the antebellum through reconstruction. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints from Cornell's collections.

The University of Michigan's contributions to MOA. This site provides access to approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints from the university's collections.

The online counterpart to the illustrious Mid-Manhattan Library's Picture Collection, this resource is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.

The Municipal Archives has records of births reported in the five Boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island), prior to 1910; deaths reported prior to 1949, and marriages reported prior to 1930. Go to New York City's Department of Health & Vital Records for births after 1910 and deaths after 1949.

Also among the municipal archives' many holdings are : records of the coroner and office of chief medical examiner, 1823-1939, docket books from Manhattan's department of buildings, 1866 to 1959, ledgers records for the city cemetery on Hart's Island (aka "Potter's Field"), and New York City court records 1684-1966. Information about these and other collections is available on this site.

Offers information about the Museum's collections, exhibits, and programs. The website also provides online access to some of their most significant prints and photographs, including those of Currier and Ives, Bernice Abbott, and Jacob Riis.

Find information about U.S. census, immigration and naturalization records in the National Archives' extensive collection.

Offers information about each of the National Park Service's sites located in New York Harbor, including the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Castle Clinton, and Jacob Riis Park, among others.

A research and teaching resource dedicated to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal. It features a database of over 20,000 primary source materials including photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historical documents).

Dedicated to providing access to materials related to the 17th Century colony of New Netherland. Features a virtual tour of New Netherland and transcriptions of significant documents.

One of the principal genealogical reference libraries in the country. Numerous online research guides available.

Find information concerning housing, demographics, income, public assistance and education in New York City's neighborhoods.

A list of academics and non-academics "with an interest in study or interpretation of New York History."

The New-York Historical Society Website provides information about both the museum and library collections. Includes a searchable database of the Society's museum collections.

Images of African-Americans in the nineteenth century, Hudson River views, small-town America stereoscopic views, maps of the middle Atlantic region to 1850, treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875- 1923 and the Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection are just some of the NYPL collections available in digital format.

Pluralism and Unity explores the problem of American identity and the nature of political and cultural pluralism in the early 20th century. Presents a wide array of materials that explore "the struggle between these two visions" of pluralism and unity in early 20th-century American thought and life.

This site explores the cultural connections between the history of African Americans and Irish immigrants in America. Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, the project offers more than 200 documents related to individual leaders, historical events, economic, political, and social factors, and cultural achievements of African Americans and Irish Americans.

Jacob Riis' 1902 Battle with the Slum published on the internet with some illustrations and footnotes.

A website devoted to Edward T. O'Donnell's recent book, Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum, about the story of the burning of the General Slocum.

Extensive overviews of tenant groups, rent resistance, rent control and the fluctuating balance of power between renters and landlords over the course of the 20th century.

Organized around the history of women's role social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the site addresses specific questions about the women's activism through mini-monographs and over 1400 primary sources.

Provides access to data from the U.S. Census between 1790-1970. For each census, users can browse extensive demographic and economic information at the state and county levels, organized in a variety of categories including birth, age, gender, marital status, race, ethnicity, education, illiteracy, salary levels, housing, and specifics dealing with agriculture, labor and manufacturing.

Images and articles on the famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1851, including some pre-famine material on related events.

Historical maps of NYC from several perspectives and time periods.

Created by the New York Times, this site contains an overview of the past hundred years in NYC, decade by decade, including both narrative text and images.