Related Links of Interest

Local and Regional Interest

• Louisiana's Old State Capitol
• West Baton Rouge Museum
• Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB)
• Louisiana State Museum
• Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Louisiana Historical Association (LHA)
• Louisiana Newspapers Online
• Louisiana Digital Library (LDL)
• KnowLA's Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana History and Culture, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH)
• Publishers' Bindings Online (PBO), 1815-1930: The Art of Books, Louisiana State University (LSU) Collection Gallery
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (New Orleans Division) Digital Library contains a wealth of information about Louisiana waterways, including the Mississippi River, Baton Rouge Riverfront, Bonnet Carre Spillway, Mermentau Basin, Atchafalaya Basin, and much more.

Libraries and Archives of Interest

• Archives, Veterinary Medicine Library of LSU
• The Baton Rouge Digital Archive, Baton Rouge Room, and Genealogy Collection, Special Collections Department of the East Baton Rouge Parish Public Library (EBRPL)
• Archives Department, Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge
• Archives and Manuscripts Department, Southern University (SU)
• The Louisiana State Archives is the official repository for the state's historical records.
• State Library of Louisiana
• Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies, Southeastern Louisiana University holds historical records from Louisiana's Florida Parishes, southwestern Mississippi, and surrounding areas.
• Special Collections Services, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)
• Archives and Special Collections Department, Nicholls State University
• Louisiana Division/City Archives and Special Collections, New Orleans Public Library (NOPL)
• Louisiana Historical Center, Louisiana State Museum has digitized its Colonial Documents Collection through the Louisiana Colonial Documents Digitization Project.
• The Amistad Research Center, Tulane University
• Archives, Archdiocese of New Orleans has digitized sacramental records available online.
• Louisiana and Special Collections Department, University of New Orleans (UNO)
• Archives and Special Collections, Xavier University of Louisiana; Xavier's Digital Library contains the digitized Charles F. Heartman Manuscripts of Slavery Collection.
• Library Archives and Special Collections, Dillard University
• The New Orleans Notarial Archives (NONA) holds some forty million pages of signed acts compiled by the notaries of New Orleans, Louisiana over three centuries. This state agency houses all notarial acts (1734 to present) for the Parish of Orleans. Researchers access these record through the Notarial Archives Research Center, 1340 Poydras Street, Suite 360, New Orleans, LA 70112.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC)
• Archives, McNeese State University
• Department of Special Collections, Manuscripts, and Archives, Louisiana Tech University
• Northwest Louisiana Archives, Louisiana State University at Shreveport (LSUS)
• Archives and Special Collections, Centenary College of Louisiana
• Bossier Parish Library Historical Center
• The Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
• Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
• Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
• L'Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques features an online catalog of their famous book collection and a digital library of maps documenting the maps used in classes at the "Sciences-Po." These maps offer interesting information for researchers studying cartography, both contemporary and historical.

Other Links

• ArchiveGrid connects you with primary source material held in archives, special collections, and manuscript collections around the world.
• Archive Finder (includes NIDS UK/Ireland) is a current directory of over 5,600 repositories and more than 175,000 collections of primary source material across the United States. NIDS UK/Ireland is a major reference work that reproduces on microfiche the finding aids to thousands of archive and manuscript collections in libraries and record offices, museums and private collections throughout the UK and Ireland. Used together in Archive Finder, researchers are able to read descriptions of a repository's holdings to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work as well as find the information they need to contact the repository directly.
• Civil War Book Review is the journal of record for new and newly reprinted books about the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras. Published quarterly by the LSU Libraries Special Collections Division.
• Complete listing of LSU Libraries' research/subject guides
• Conservation Online (CoOL) is a freely accessible platform to generate and disseminate vital resources for those working to preserve cultural heritage worldwide.
• Getty Information Institute's Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) online
• Louisiana Archives and Manuscripts Association (LAMA)
• Our Documents is a cooperative effort among National History Day, NARA, and USA Freedom Corps. At the heart of this initiative are 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to "form a more perfect union."
• Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS), Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
• Sanborn Maps, digitized by the Library of Congress
• Society of American Archivists (SAA)
• Society of Southwest Archivists (SSA)
• WorldCat lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.