BEM 202 Information Gathering: Research Guide

Search newspapers, oral history, photographs, manuscripts and books relating to Kentucky history and people.

Photos from the Lexington Herald-Leader archives updated daily. The cornerstone of this effort is the John C. Wyatt Herald-Leader Collection, an archive of 1.8 million negatives and transparencies dating from the late 1930s through the 1990s housed at the University of Kentucky Special Collections since 2005.

Sponsored by the Kentucky Oral History Commission, Pass the Word serves as a centralized database for oral history collections publicly accessible through Kentucky libraries, museums and archives.

A major statewide initiative to document, through oral history interviews, the struggle to end legal segregation in Kentucky between 1930 and 1975. Directed by oral historian Dr. Betsy Brinson, this series of interviews features Kentuckians who, in some capacity, participated in the movement.

The Special Collections and Archives of Berea College emphasizes primary sources relating to eastern Kentucky.

Digitized images and documents; finding aids for manuscript collections.

Includes photographs, documents, correspondence, publications and more that document the history and culture of Eastern Kentucky University and the state of Kentucky with an emphasis on Madison County.

The Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program (KDNP) brings the newspaper collections of the University of Kentucky Library to a global audience through an online interface that's fully keyword searchable, repleat with color page images, calendar browsing, and web-based html newspaper content alongside traditional print media.