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The museum covers all five boroughs of NYC. Use the "Search" box to find Staten Island information.

Information from the National Parks Service on historically significant cultural resources such as buildings, landscapes and other sites.

The Centers mission is to facilitate and encourage citizen participation in the improvement and protection of New York Citys diverse neighborhoods. It is a place where the public is welcome to convene, strategize, and exchange information through its various services: public meeting rooms, temporary and virtual offices, and a resource referral service.

This site features 20,000 items, including photographs, speeches, letters, documents, and exercises from the New Deal era.

This is a simple list of sites designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Links are provided when available.

The Neighborhood Preservation Center and New York Citys Landmarks Preservation Commission have joined together to provide free online access to Landmark designation reports. Designation reports explain the architectural, historical or cultural significance of an individual landmark or historic district. Work in Progress.

Monitored by an independent webmaster and unaffiliated with MTA, this site provides information about the NYC subway and bus systems, the Transit Museum, history, events, facts and figures contributed by volunteers.

The New York Landmarks Conservancy provides news and information about building preservation in New York, including repair work and financing resources.

The PBS Series.

This web companion to the PBS documentary features an introduction to the making of this film a 3-D virtual trip around NYC using QTVR panoramas a multimedia quiz game and an educational guide for students.

NewYorkHeritage.org is a portal to hundreds of free digital collections about New York State's people, places, and institutions contributed by libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions.

Frequently asked questions about the history of the New York City Police Department.

A virtual tour of New York University and Greenwich Village history including a walking tour, biographical sketches and quotes.

The Old York Library contains a unique assemblage of books, maps, images (photos and postcards), newspapers, and memorabilia of New York City. The collection, founded in the 1960s by Seymour Durst, chronicles the history, geography, architecture, culture, politics and many other aspects of NYC.

Featuring the history, facts, and photos of the various neighborhoods that make up our borough. WORK IN PROGRESS

The online counterpart to the illustrious Mid-Manhattan Librarys 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. Browse under the subject New York City

A joint project of City Lore and the Municipal Art Society, advocating for places in New York City that preserve history and sustain culture. Maintains an interactive survey called the Census of Places that Matter where New Yorkers can nominate places of public significance.

This non-profit organization for historic preservation provides national and local resources for locating, designating, and maintaining historic buildings.

Provides an overview of the history and issues of the establishment of Palestine. Includes maps and a database of United Nations documents.

Fosters the study of the Renaissance from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Founded in the early 19th century by freed black men from New York, Sandy Ground is the oldest community established by free slaves in North America. The Society maintains the largest documentary collection of African-American culture and history on Staten Island and the museum also serves as an educational research facility chartered by the state Department of Education.

Online encyclopedia featuring articles, chronologies, and biographical sketches.

Seneca Village was Manhattan's first significant community of African American property owners. It existed from 1825 through 1857 and was located between 82nd & 89th Streets and 7th & 8th Avenues. Today, this area is part of Central Park.

Thousands of digitized images documenting the people, places, and events of Utah and the surrounding states from 1903 through 1980.

This searchable collection contains over a hundred items documenting legal cases concerning slaves in the United States.

Snug Harbor is a cultural center set within an 83-acre National Historic Landmark district containing the finest collection of Greek Revival buildings in the United States, plus Beaux Arts, Italianate and Victorian style architecture.

New York-based museum dedicated to the preservation of the regions marine heritage. Provides information on exhibitions, educational programs, related events, and fleet of ships.

The online edition of the Columbia University Libraries exhibition on gay and lesbian history and culture, held in 1994 in conjunction with the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the "Stonewall Riots" in New York City.

A regularily updated guide to all things ancient on the web. Includes a directory and a search feature. Has a useful section on "daily life" in ancient cultures.

A rapidly expanding Digital Library from Tufts with a plentiful collection of Greek playtexts and other classical resources. The site also contains full-text versions of Christopher Marlowe's work, an edition of Shakespeare's First Folio, and source material on the history and founding of London. Atlases identify places mentioned in the collection of online texts.

This site provides access to documents, photographs, recordings and digitized collections from the presidential libraries of last century's presidents.

A searchable full-text collection of the publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

This web exhibit presents original documents and secondary sources on the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911) held by the Cornell University Library. You will find original documents, oral histories, and photographs.

This digital archive presents a hypermedia archive of primary sources providing a social history of a northern and a southern community from 1859 through the Reconstruction period.

This searchable site features oral histories, documents (such as official military records) and photographs.

"This web resource consists of oral history testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain. These testimonies are personal, individual, true stories, which describe life during the Holocaust." A British Library site.

A searchable collection of over 7,000 photographs and 317 Kodachrome slides documenting the internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans evacuated from California, Oregon, and Washington by the War Relocation Authority during World War II.

Information on geography, history, and current issues. Includes an annotated list of links to othter Kurdistan Web resources.

A selection of archival materials, including primary source materials, related to the settlement of California, Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest.

This timeline includes images, posters, maps, political cartoons, newspaper clippings, and diagrams.