MAS 225: Open Web Resources

The American Geographical Society Library houses one of North America's largest geography and map collections. The cartography featured in this collection spans the globe from the 15th to 21st centuries, featuring maps held at the American Geographical Society Librar

The Boulder County Latino History Project presents, explores, and teaches the history and involvement of Latinos in Boulder County, Colorado. Our work is made possible through collaboration with local Latino groups, interested individuals, local historical organizations, and educational institutions.

The Chicano & Latino History Project partners with communities across Colorado to gather, preserve, and incorporate into PreK-12 classrooms the history and culture of local Chicanos and Latinos.

The CCMA comprises 25+ individual collections from Chicano activists and organizations including the papers of Juan Federico "Freddie Freak" Miguel Arguello Trujillo and Jose Esteban Ortega, CU-Boulder and Pueblo activists; the Garcia Family Papers, documenting Pueblo UFW, education and environmental racism; Una Jaakola Papers, CU-Boulder activist; the records of UMAS, CU-Boulder; and the David Marquez Papers, containing a wide sampling of Chicano Movement newspapers. In addition, the CCMA includes an almost complete run of La Cucaracha, the Pueblo Chicano Movement newspaper, now digitized and available at the Colorado Historic Newspaper collection.

Collections of unique research materials that enhance understanding of Colorado’s agrarian and natural resource heritage

A Continent Divided is committed to digitizing primary source materials drawn from the UT-Arlington Library's Special Collections, long recognized as one of the premier repositories on the 1846-1848 conflict.

A historical map collection with over 22,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented.

The Western History Collection at the Denver Public Library is recognized as one of the most significant collections of Western Americana in the country. The collection reflects all phases of development of the trans-Mississippi West, with strong focus on the Rocky Mountain West.

Portal to resources from U.S. libraries, archives, and museums. Browse by place, time, subject, or contributing partner.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Discover the diverse history of Hispanics in Colorado - from the Ancestral Puebloans through today with biographies, artifact kits for your classrooms, bibliographies and more.

Explore Colorado’s past through the archives, artifacts, and photographs of the History Colorado Collection.

Footage of the West High School Blow Out

The Indigenous Digital Archive is here to help you explore the history of US goverment Indian boarding schools in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist provides a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company housed in the collections of the Geography and Map Division. The Sanborn maps are arranged by state, then city and release data. Currently there are over 25,000 sheets from over 3000 city sets online in the following states: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, ID, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NV, OH, OK, PA, SD, TX, VA, VT, WY and Canada, Mexico, Cuba sugar warehouses, and U.S. whiskey warehouses.

Digital collections of the Library of Congress

Mountain Scholar is an open access repository service that collects, preserves, and provides access to digitized library collections and other scholarly and creative works from several academic entities within the region of Colorado and Wyoming.

New Mexico Digital Collections is the central search portal for digital collections about New Mexico. A service of the University of New Mexico Libraries, we provide access to digitized photographs, manuscripts, posters, oral histories, videos, maps, and books from libraries, museums, and cultural centers across the state.

The Plains to Peaks Collective (PPC) is the Colorado and Wyoming Service Hub of the Digital Public Library of America, or DPLA. The Plains to Peaks Collective helps libraries, archives, and museums share unique digital collections with a wider audience.

Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device.

Digitized copies of Colorado Fuel and Iron's Camp and Plant magazine published by the CF&I Sociological Department from 1901-1904.

Over 125,000 songs celebrating North America's Spanish-language musical heritage. Includes work produced at Colorado labels such as Infal Records.

The Western History Collections is a special collection within the University of Oklahoma Libraries system. Particularly useful are the collection of Indian-Pioneer Papers, which includes oral histories spanning 1861-1936.

The Western Americana Collection from Princeton University includes printed materials and manuscripts focused on overland narratives, the cattle trade, and the Rocky Mountain West.

The Western Waters Digital Library (WWDL) provides free public access to a wide range of significant resources on water in the Western United States. Available resources include classic water literature, legal transcripts, maps, reports, personal papers, water project records, photographs, audio recordings, videos, and other material.