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Sub-categories: Christianity (17),   History of religion (7),   Judaism (3),   Informal education in religion (2),   Instructional issues in religion (1),   Islam (1)

American Westward Migration

Diaries, maps and trails of Mormon pioneers and their westward migration in the 1850s.

Doris Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History

The Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History online provides access to typescripts of interviews (1967 -1972) conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures ...

Florida Folklife Collection

The Florida Folklife Collection includes approximately 150 cubic feet of administrative, survey and fieldwork files and tens of thousands of audio and video recordings dating from the 1930s through ...

Folkstreams.net

Folkstreams.net collects, preserves, and makes available free streaming video of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots culture, giving wider audience to the independent ...

Hudson River Valley Heritage

The mission of HRVH is to provide universal access to a collaborative digital record of Hudson River Valley history and creativity. HRVH provides access to historical materials from digital ...

Jesuit scrapbooks from the New Orleans Province

The following scrapbook, inscribed Archives of the New Orleans Mission dates to the late 19th century and is a record of the men who served in the Society of Jesus, and the churches, schools and ...

Nebraska Memories

Nebraska Memories, a cooperative project to digitize Nebraska-related historical and cultural heritage materials and make them freely available to researchers of all ages via the Internet, is brought ...

Ogden History Collection

In the two decades following the arrival of the Mormon pioneers, Ogden grew as an important, modest, agricultural settlement north of Salt Lake City. With the driving of the Golden Spike in 1869, ...

Oneida Community Collection in the Syracuse University Library

For more than sixty years the Library has been assembling data on social-religious movements of New York State during the nineteenth century as part of its collecting policy to include "local history ...

Oral Histories of the White Mountains

This audio collection consists of snippets from interviews with residents who lived in and around the White Mountains area. The 1977 interviews were part of a Northland Pioneer College project to ...

Powwow Photographs by Ann Leonard

The Powwow Photographs by Ann Leonard collection consists of 69 color digital photographs by Arizona State University's Labriola National American Indian Data Center's Library Aid, Ann Leonard. ...

Sister Joannette Rutkowski, FSSJ, Archives and Historical Collection

Sister Joanette Rutkowski, Hilbert College Archivist for more than 20 years, is the first and only official archivist at the college since it was founded. The collection was named in her honor in ...

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Blair Historic Preservation Alliance: Historic Photograph Collection

This online collection of images includes vintage pictures of many of Blair's historic landmarks, structures, and scenes. It includes photographs downtown Blair, Railroad Bridge, Lincoln Memorial ...

BYU Master's theses on Mormonism

The digital collection entitled Master's Theses on Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) includes over 650 theses written at Brigham Young University . It is an ever-growing and ...

Capital District Library Council Digital Collections

Capital District Library Council Digital Collections provides online access to digitized materials from libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations in the Capital ...

Church and Congregational History in Illinois: A Collection of Digitized Boooks

Early histories of churches, congregations, and religious communities in Illinois. Also includes books about Joseph Smith and Mormonism, as well as Dwight Lyman Moody, founder of the Moody Bible ...

Digital Past

Digital Past is a local history digitization program undertaken by libraries, historical societies, museums, and other cultural venues in Illinois in partnership with the North Suburban Library System ...

Father Augustine Schwarz Photograph Collection

The photographs of the Franciscan, Augustine Schwarz, O.F.M., were donated to the Anthropology Department at Arizona State University by a niece, Elizabeth M. Jones, in 1986, and transferred to the ...

From Warrior to Saint: The Journey of David Pendleton Oakerhater

From Warrior to Saint: The Journey of David Pendleton Oakerhater, a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People project, tells the story of Making Medicine, a Cheyenne warrior who became the ...

Grouse Creek Cultural Survey: Mormon Buckaroo Territory, 1985

In the summer of 1985 a team of folklife specialists (folklorists, architectural historians, & historians) from the Library of Congress and Utah spent a couple of weeks living in Grouse Creek, ...

Highlights of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson

Highlights of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson includes documents and letters from the time of Bishop Salpointe, from the late 1860's to the mid 1880's. Most of the documents are written by or addressed ...

Images of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson

The Images collection consists of photographs of bishops and priests who served Catholics of Arizona from as early as the 1860s. Most of the earliest priests and bishops came from France through the ...

Making of Modern Michigan: Digitizing Michigan's Hidden Past

The Making of Modern Michigan is a collaborative project involving more than 50 Michigan libraries and other organizations. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. ...

Religious Education Image Archive

Religious Education Image Archive contains approximately 4,300 images pertaining to the doctrines and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Images include photographs, drawings ...

Samuel Hugh Hawkins diary, January-July 1877

The Samuel Hugh Hawkins Diary, January - July 1877, donated by Georgia State Senator George Hooks to the Lake Blackshear Regional Library System, chronicles Americus, Georgia entrepreneur, lawyer, and ...

Tanner Trust Books

A collection of books covering topics dealing with early Utah history and Mormon culture.

Texas Tides

Texas Tides offers a digital gateway to rich historical, cultural and scientific resources held in Texas and Mexican libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, private collections, state ...

Tohono O'odham Collection, 1970 - 1980, Helga Teiwes Photographer

This exhibit is composed of 109 photographs of the Tohono O'odham Indians taken by the Arizona State Museum's photographer Helga Teiwes during the years 1970 -- 1980. The exhibit is arranged into ...

Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The Thomas Wentworth Higginson Collection at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is part of the larger Carlton and Territa Lowenberg Collection at the UNL Archives and Special Collections. The ...

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BYU Master's theses on Mormonism

The digital collection entitled Master's Theses on Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) includes over 650 theses written at Brigham Young University . It is an ever-growing and ...

Church and Congregational History in Illinois: A Collection of Digitized Boooks

Early histories of churches, congregations, and religious communities in Illinois. Also includes books about Joseph Smith and Mormonism, as well as Dwight Lyman Moody, founder of the Moody Bible ...

HistoryMakers

The initial goal of The HistoryMakers is to complete 5,000 interviews of both well-known and unsung African American HistoryMakers within the next five years, creating an archive of unparalleled ...

Religious Education Image Archive

Religious Education Image Archive contains approximately 4,300 images pertaining to the doctrines and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Images include photographs, drawings ...

Samuel Hugh Hawkins diary, January-July 1877

The Samuel Hugh Hawkins Diary, January - July 1877, donated by Georgia State Senator George Hooks to the Lake Blackshear Regional Library System, chronicles Americus, Georgia entrepreneur, lawyer, and ...

Tanner Trust Books

A collection of books covering topics dealing with early Utah history and Mormon culture.

Texas Tides

Texas Tides offers a digital gateway to rich historical, cultural and scientific resources held in Texas and Mexican libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, private collections, state ...

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Digital Past

Digital Past is a local history digitization program undertaken by libraries, historical societies, museums, and other cultural venues in Illinois in partnership with the North Suburban Library System ...

Phoenix Jewish News Photographs Collection

The Jewish News Photographic Collection consists of over 10,000 photographs and other documentation donated by the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix to the Arizona Jewish Historic Society in May 2007. ...

Significant Documents Illuminating the American Jewish Experience

Documents reflecting the American Jewish experience.

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BYU Campus Photographs

This collection contains historical photographs that document the history of Brigham Young University from its establishment in 1875 as Brigham Young Academy to its centennial in 1975. Images include ...

Southern Homefront, 1861-1865

"The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865," documents Southern life during the Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to create a viable nation state as evidenced in both private and public life. " ...

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Southern Homefront, 1861-1865

"The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865," documents Southern life during the Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to create a viable nation state as evidenced in both private and public life. " ...

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Capital District Library Council Digital Collections

Capital District Library Council Digital Collections provides online access to digitized materials from libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations in the Capital ...