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Summer Reading 2024: History Resources/Recursos sobre historia/Recursos de história

Use this guide to help participate in Summer Reading and learn more about time traveling through history with online resources.

Hartford History Center

black in white picture of the library in the past

The physical Hartford History Center houses books and documents on Hartford History, in addition to rotating exhibitions.

We are currently open  by appointment at our Ropkins Branch.

1750 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06120

Please Email or call to visit
860-695-7520  |  hhc@hplct.org

Hartford Public Library Through History

Library Databases on History

Outside History Resources

The Digital Public Library of America amplifies the value of libraries and cultural organizations as Americans’ most trusted sources of shared knowledge. It has online, free collections on many topics.

Our national Library has many historical resources that are free to access.

Videos on different aspects of history.

U.S. History

World History I

World History II

Black American History

Big History

European History

History of Science

Visit the Historic New England Website for resources, events, and information about preserving our history.

Through rigorous historical analysis combined with the study of human behavior, Facing History’s approach heightens students’ understanding of racism, religious intolerance, and prejudice; increases students’ ability to relate history to their own lives; and promotes greater understanding of their roles and responsibilities in a democracy.

The Center for Racial Justice has free resources and information on racial justice in our country

Discover information about the history, present, and future about Native American Communities.

Multimedia Resources

Mission US, a multimedia history education organization, has created video games that allow users to play through different periods of history including:

  • For Crown or Colony lets you play through 1770 as Nat Wheeler, a 14-year-old apprentice in Boston. As tensions rise among Patriots, Loyalists, and others, can you decide where your loyalties lie? Play online or download the iPad app.
  • In A Cheyenne Odyssey the year is 1866, and you are Little Fox, a Northern Cheyenne boy. Can you help your tribe survive life on the Plains?
  • City of Immigrants lets you live as Lena Brodsky, a 14-year-old Jewish immigrant from Russia in 1907. How will you start a new life in America?
  • In Prisoner in my Homeland you are 16-year-old Henry Tanaka in 1941. When the government forces you and 120,000 other innocent Japanese Americans into camps, how will you react?
  • No Turning Back explores what it'd be like to be 16-year-old Verna Baker, born and raised in the Mississippi Delta. As you move to the city of Greenwood to start high school, in 1960 a movement for civil rights is gaining momentum. How will you take part in the struggle for freedom and equality?

They also have educational resources including primary sources and additional activities and information about the different historical periods.


Hartford Public Library 

Central Branch:  500 Main Street. Hartford, CT 06103 
Phone: 860-695-6300 | Text: 860-530-4376 | Email: contactus@hplct.org | Chat: www.hplct.org
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