History

Gateway to two collections for scholars and researchers: "Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive," "Archives Unbound," and "The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Communist Party: Papers of James and Esther Cooper"

This collection was created in partnership with leading African American genealogists and recognized leaders in genealogical information to develop a comprehensive mix of resources, records, and tools specifically pertaining to African Americans.

Digitized articles from the backfile of The Cincinnati Enquirer. Please note: The year 1885 is incomplete due to damaged microfilm. See also: Ohio Historical Newspapers

Text-only articles from the Cincinnati Enquirer, up to today's date.

A collection containing more than a million photographs created by the Cincinnati Enquirer's staff photographers between 1945 and 1995. The photos cover thousands of subjects including Cincinnati events, historical buildings, notable people, and much more.

This database indexes patents issued to Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio inventors from 1814 through 1873. Each entry provides a link to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office website. TIFF software is required to view a patent's full-size image.

Concise reports detailing the history, daily life, and customs of world cultures. Each report typically includes a regional overview, national anthem audio file, maps, statistics, photographs, biographies of well-known people, and a recipe collection. World Edition articles are aimed at high school users. Kids and States Editions are aimed at grade school users.

Full-text articles from the backfile of The Dayton Daily News.

To provide greater access to our rare print materials, especially those of local significance, CHPL is constantly digitizing items and adding them to our Digital Library, thus making them more accessible to the community and to researchers worldwide.

Over 50 million pages of historical documents; census records from 1860 and 1930; documents relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, and U.S. Presidents; historical newspapers; naturalization documents; Matthew Brady Civil War photos; city directories; etc.

Full-text articles from the backfile of twenty newspapers including The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, the Louisville Courier Journal, The Nashville Tennessean, the Toronto Star, and The Washington Post.

Full-text articles from the backfile of the Indianapolis Star

Full-text articles from the backfile of The Nashville Tennessean.

Full-text and full-image articles from the complete backfile (1851–2014) of the New York Times. Digital reproductions include news stories, editorials, photographs, graphics, obituaries, legal notices, and advertisements.

Newsdex is an index of Cincinnati stories and events, as well as death notices and obituaries from our local newspapers. It’s a unique resource created and maintained by Library staff. Use it to find full article citations, including titles, dates, pages, and column numbers. In some cases, it will also note if an image accompanies the article. While not comprehensive, it’s a great starting point for research using our local newspapers. A library card with us is not necessary to use Newsdex.

Provides access to over 1.8 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th Century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. that is of interest to both professional and general researchers.  

The Ohio Historical Newspaper collection allows you to search the full run of the Cincinnati Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer in one spot. Also includes the Dayton Daily News (1923-1986), and historical coverage for several smaller Ohio cities, including Chillicothe and Zanesville.

Each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page images in PDF format. For newspapers still publishing, coverage extends to within days of the current issue. 

Over 40,000 detailed maps of Ohio cities providing large scale street plans with building outlines, property boundaries, and building use that were produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company and drawn between 1882 and 1962.

Provides concise introductions on a diverse range of subject areas, including ancient warfare, climate change, game theory, Islamic history, privacy, and racism.