The Monroe County Library System holds a wealth of local history information available for researching.

A list of searchable Monroe County newspapers in a freely available online archive.

This local history museum is a museum without walls, and has its primary presence on this web site devoted to the history of Brockport, Sweden and the surrounding area.

The web site for the college's archives, which include some local history materials as well as documents, photographs and more of the college's 175 years of history.

A bibliography of the books, pamphlets, and periodical articles on the history of a ten-county area of upstate New York. The counties are Allegany, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates. Rochester, in Monroe County, is the largest city in the area covered. Most of the 6917 entries in the bibliography are briefly annotated.

Historic maps, including "plat" maps, or maps that show not only roads, but structures, names of property owners etc. from directories and atlases ca1850 to 1920s.

This site, from Yale Law School, is devoted to historic documents dealing with law, history, and diplomacy. The link here goes directly to the 19th century collection.

Images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the U.S.

- Digitized collection of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States.

Digitized collection of texts written about America from 1492-1820.

One of the best resources for European history, with links to collections of primary sources. Documents and images range from ancient and medieval to contemporary.

A site of digitized primary sources documenting Europe's history.

Fordham University collection of public domain and historical texts.

A variety of primary sources (diaries, photographs, maps, oral histories, etc.) from the Library of Congress that document American history.

Allows you to search over 1.5 million images and photos in newspapers from 1789 - 1963

An index of collections of digitized primary sources, on the topic of US Military.

Provides access to more than 4.1 million searchable newspaper pages from 581 newspaper titles, published in 25 states and the District of Columbia between 1836 and 1922.

Digitized Civil War primary sources, sponsored by the University of Virginia.

Digitized primary sources from Texas Tech University that document the war.

Primary materials from all countries and cultures, from pre-history to today. Manuscripts, maps, photos, sound recordings, and more.

The link here takes you to a 1940 Census film, posted in YouTube by the National Archives. There are many old documentary film clips and so forth in YouTube from the National Archives, and other sources too.