Your professional organizations will help you broaden your knowledge, network in your professional community, and gain access to current events in your career area.
So start now and begin exploring your professional organizations' web sites.
Non-profit membership organization founded in 1884 for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research. Largest historical society in the United States provides leadership and advocacy for the profession and provides resources and services to help its members succeed. (Discounted student membership rates are available.)
A digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research.
The New York Public Library's digitized collections online including African American Migration, Civil War Medical Car Photographs, Ellis Island Photographs, Picture Collection of the NYPL, World War I Photograph Albums, and much more.