Archives and Libraries provide large amounts of information for your research. The links below will provide you with some information and prepare you for a visit to a library.
Archives
- National Archives and Records Administration
- St. Louis
- Genealogy at the National Archives
Massachusetts Archives
- Massachusetts Archives (state archives)
- Archives Advisory Commission/Massachusetts Historical Records Advisory Board (affiliated with NHPRC)
Libraries
- Library of Congress
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- Search other Catalogs – 1,000’s of other Library catalogs at the Library of Congress
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Massachusetts Libraries
Amherst College
Babson College
Boston College
Boston Public Library
Boston University Mugar Memorial Library
Brandeis University Libraries
Bridgewater State College Library
Congregational Library in Boston
Clark University
College of the Holy Cross
Framingham State College
Hampshire College
Harvard University
Andover-Harvard Theological Library (see “Manuscripts”)
Houghton Library
Healey Library
Peabody Museum
Peabody Essex Museum
Millicent Library (Fairhaven)
Mount Holyoke College
Northeastern University Libraries
Phillips Academy
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia
Simmons College
Simmons [student] Chapter of the Society of American Archivists
Smith College
Sophia Smith Collection (women’s history)
Tufts
The Thoreau Institute
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Lowell
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Wellesley College
Wheaton College
Williams College