Digital History Collections & Archives
EVPL’s Digital Archive, local history, and recorded testimonials.
Digital Archive
The Digital Archive created by the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library contains images of photographs, postcards, and documents representing people, places, and things in and around Evansville, Indiana. Original images in this collection are from the Indiana Collection, located at Central Library in downtown Evansville, or from local residents.
Evansville Courier & Press
Local newspaper archives from 2010 – present, via ProQuest.
Evansville Historical Newspapers
Full-page, fully searchable digitized editions of historical Evansville newspapers from 1848-1998. Available thanks to a generous grant from the EVPL Foundation.
Due to NewsBank restrictions, this resource is available only to EVPL resident cardholders (PLAC not applicable) or via in-house Library computers.
Evansville Local History Database
Newspaper clippings of local value from the Evansville Press.
Evansville Local History eBooks
Historical books and pamphlets about Evansville people and places. Original images are from the Indiana Collection.
HeinOnline
Access to four of HeinOnline’s most relevant databases. Explore over 5,000 resources on: Civil Rights and Social Justice; Open Society Justice Initiative; Gun Regulation and Legislation in America; and Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law.
These databases are accessible only at the library.
Indiana Room
Research local and regional history with a special collection of physical materials in EVPL Central’s Indiana Room, including books, atlases, magazines, and more about Evansville, Vanderburgh County, the Southwestern region of Indiana, and the state of Indiana. Also includes a collection of city directories and school yearbooks.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Indiana Collection
Digitally travel back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to local and regional history. Coverage includes leading issues and events, immigration, industrial developments, and race relations, as well as international, local and regional politics. Each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page images in easily downloadable PDF format.
Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive
Learn more about Holocaust survivors and their testimonies via recordings from the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
