NC LIVE 2024-2026 Databases (LibGuides v2): History & Biography

Access to primary source information, including birth and death records, ship logs, and cemetery records.

Find background information on many subject areas. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, images, and videos.

Includes data on crime: its causes, impacts, legal and social implications, litigation and crime trends.

Historical materials from cultural heritage repositories across North Carolina.

Articles, critical essays, topic overviews, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.

Encyclopedias and reference sources that cover a variety of topics.

Genealogy research database. Includes historical census, PERSI, Revolutionary War records, and more.

Digitized historical newspaper content from over 1,000 NC county newspapers. Alternate Name: Newspapers.com North Carolina Collection.

Find primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day.

Cultural, political, and social history of indigenous peoples from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

Ebooks and journals from renowned scholarly publishers.

Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.

Information about the state, its history, people, government, and educational institutions.

Find women's eyewitness accounts of historical events from 1675- 1950. Women's writings and primary sources.

Find articles from peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and newspapers on all subjects.