40,708,413 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

Public photography archive

Over 1.2 million images and videos, available for completely free use under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.

Over 100,000 images available for educational use.

A digital collection of millions of photographs from LIFE magazine from 1750s to today.

Prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more

Access to over 2500 US and international news sources. Sources include newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites.

News, business, and legal resources. To search just newspapers and magazines, click "Search by subject or topic" above the search bar, and choose "All news."

News and magazine articles and business information from over 8000 sources. Includes New York Times. Search by clicking "Search Builder" in top menu.

Indexes about 300 alternative, radical, and left publications covering political, economic, social and cultural issues. 1991 - present.

Start by searching our collections. Results include databases, articles, books, and government documents.

Google's mega search for academic articles. In settings, set your Library Links to MIT to get full text of articles we own.

Primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues affecting LGBTQ communities around the world, such as the gay rights movement, activism, and the HIV/AIDS crisis. Includes newsletters, organizational papers, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other primary sources from the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, GLBT Historical Society, New York Public Library, Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation, and elsewhere.

Streaming service for documentaries in all subjects

Online encyclopedias in many subject areas.

Overview of contentious American social or political issues. 1923 to present.

Portal providing access to statistics on industries, markets, demography, countries & economies.

See issues and political news with news bias revealed. Non-partisan, crowd-sourced technology shows stories from from left, right, and center perspectives.

Chart compiled using non-partisan methodology to analyze and rate news for overall reliability and bias.

Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.

International fact-checkers who adhere to the code of principles put forth by Poynters.

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics.

Fact-checking site

Fact checking from the conservative publication.