Online Resources
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Montana Digital Newspaper Project
Historical Montana newspapers from 1865 through 1922 are being digitized
and published on
Chronicling
America, the Library of Congress's web portal to historical U.S.
newspapers. The full text of every issue is searchable, and access is free.
For a list of Montana papers to be digitized, visit our
project page.
Montana Memory Project
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Montana Memory Project The Montana Memory Project provides access to digital collections and items relating to Montana's cultural heritage and government. In part, these collections and items document the Montana experience. Access is free and open through the Internet. Many of these items are digitized copies of historic material, some items are contemporary. All serve as a resource for education, business, pleasure, and lifelong learning.
Montana History Wiki
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Montana History Wiki
The Montana History Wiki is a collection of information resources available through the Montana Historical Society Research Center. It is designed to assist researchers in finding the best resource for their projects or topics.
Online Catalogs
Online Exhibits - Featured Collections:
- The Blessings of Liberty: Montana's Constitutions
- Independent Order B'nai B'rith Records
- From Literary Society to Suffrage: Documenting Women's Clubs in Montana
Oral History Resources:
Teaching Aids:
Subject Guides
To assist patrons in accessing our collections, the Research Center has published several subject-oriented and material-oriented guides to our collection. Some of these are available online and can be accessed below. If you are interested in receiving a copy of a guide that is not currently available electronically, please contact us with the name of the guide and your complete name and postal address.
- Lewis and Clark Resources
- Papers of Executive Branch Officials: Guidelines on Official vs. Personal
- Speaking of Montana: A Guide to the Oral History Collection at the Montana Historical Society (Published: Montana Historical Society Press, 1997, $24.95)
- City Directories of Butte, Montana, 1885-1915, 72 microfiche, $20.00.*
- A Union List of Montana Newspapers in Montana Repositories, 238 pages (looseleaf), $17.50.*
- Catalog of the MHS Library Map Collection, 8 microfiche, $3.00.*
- Catalog of images in the F. Jay Haynes Collection, 12 microfiche, $4.00
- Montana Heritage Project Oral History Database
*For these items, please contact the Research Center Staff.
