Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents. Now using the Explora interface
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Databases
Independent Voices is a growing digital collection of the magazines, journals & newspapers of the alternative & small press archives of participating libraries. Search independent publications including Freedomways: A quarterly review of the Negro freedom movement, Black Dialogue: The rainbow community news service & much more!
A collection of Native American oriented databases, especially those that deal with Oklahoma.
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
National Geographic Virtual Library offers access to the complete archive of National Geographic magazine — every page of every issue — along with a cross-searchable collection of books, maps, images, and videos.
Access full text to over 12000 local, national and international newspapers and news services from 1980-present. Some newspapers are available in image edition, meaning you can view them like browsing a newspaper.
Oklahoma’s official state government blue book has been titled the Oklahoma Almanac since 1993, but it has had a variety of names since its inception in 1909 as the Oklahoma State Manual.
The Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program exists to fulfill the goal of digitizing and making freely available as many Oklahoma-related newspaper titles as possible.
Access the entire Oklahoman archive through our Newsbank subscription. From 1901-1991 we have the archive collection in image form via scanning from the Oklahoman's own archives. From 1982-present we have the Oklahoma is text format as well. Finally, we have the full color image collection of the Oklahoman from 2020-present. This is updated daily so you can read the current issue of the newspaper as it appears in print.
Explore Poteau history through local news, events and people with the Poteau Daily News Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.
The Photographs & Prints Division contains both documentary and fine art photographs, which document the history and culture of people of African descent worldwide as well as the work of photographers of African descent. The collection of over 300,000 images ranges from mid-eighteenth century graphics to contemporary documentary and art photography; all of the major photographic processes are represented.
The Augusta Baker Collection reflects the interests and concerns of one deeply involved in children's literature and librarianship. The collection also contains important works by authors like Virginia Hamilton and Tom Feelings, emphasizing the African-American experience in twentieth-century children's literature, and numerous anthologies of folktales and stories from many cultures, used by Augusta Baker during her career as a storyteller.