This page previously listed dozens of individual institutional history and archive pages collected in the early 2000s. A link audit found that 25 of the original 28 links were dead, blocked, or had been repurposed to unrelated content, including one that now redirects to a tutoring service unconnected to the original page. Rather than preserve a list that no longer resolves, this page has been reduced to the entries that could be confirmed live, plus the national archival authority for U.S. government and historical records.
Institutional Archives and History
- About Harvard. Harvard University’s official history and institutional overview.
- University of Michigan Library. Includes the university’s special collections and archival holdings.
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. Searchable digitized archival material from UW-Madison’s libraries.
National Archives
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The federal archive of U.S. government records. The original link here pointed to a discontinued database (NAIL); this links to NARA’s current site.
Most of the other institutional pages in the original listing, covering schools including Dartmouth, Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, Stanford, Penn State, William and Mary, Ohio State, and Northwestern, no longer resolve at the archived addresses. Institutions that maintain public-facing history pages generally keep them under their main site’s “About” section rather than a stable, linkable archive path, which makes this kind of directory difficult to keep current. If you have a specific institution’s history page you want added, it can be checked and added on request.