Oregon History Guide

Search for historical newspaper articles in Oregon Historic Newspapers:

Search for other primary sources in Oregon Digital:

Search old issues of the Commuter for LBCC-specific primary sources:

Search Oregon Historical Quarterly for scholarly secondary sources:

For the next steps, contact a librarian or use the following tools.

• Archives West
  Use this site to search the holdings from several dozen archives throughout the region. Use the "Digital Objects Only" checkbox to find historic documents that you can view online.
• Local and Regional Documents Archive
  The University of Oregon collects and digitized documents from all over Oregon.

• Oregon Digital
  Almost 200,000 images from throughout Oregon History.
• Oregon Historical Society Digital Collections
  
• Mapping the Pacific Coast
  Maps of the Pacific Coast starting from 1544 to 1820.
• Oregon Historic Photographs Collection
  
• PSU Library Digital Exhibits
  
• PSU Archives Digital Gallery
  
• OSU Natural Resources Digital Collections
  

• Google News
  A good source for recent news stories.
• Historic Oregon Newspapers
  
• The Oregonian archive
  
• Corvallis Gazette Times archive
  
• Albany Democrat-Herald archive
  
• Euguene Register-Guard
  Jul 13, 1867 - Feb 29, 2008

• Oral Histories and Sound Recordings from the Oregon Historical Society
• Oregon Multicultural Archives: Oral History Collections
• Historical audio and video at OSU

• Oregon Historical Quarterly
  Coverage: 1926-2018 (Vol. 27, No. 3 - Vol. 119, No. 4) Published by: Oregon Historical Society Title History: 1926-2018, Oregon Historical Quarterly; 1900-1926, The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society; 1897-1899, Sources of the History of Oregon
• The Oregon Encyclopedia
  
• Oregon History Project
  

The Library has several books about the history of Oregon, Linn, and Benton counties.  You can find many of these books at the following call numbers:

•  F871-F885 are Oregon History
•  LD6501.L45  is the history of Linn-Benton Community College

All nine federally recognized tribes in Oregon, as well as the federally unrecognized Chinook Indian Nation, have History sections on their Web sites.  Additionally, the resources below may be useful:

•  Books about Oregon's indigenous peoples 
• Native Americans Articles on The Oregon Encyclopedia
  A collection of encyclopedia articles from The Oregon Encyclopedia.
• Plateau Peoples' Web Portal
  This portal -- built as a collaboration between Plateau People and Washington State University -- showcases materials from the Paiute, Tenino (Warm Springs), Umatilla, Nimíipuu (Nez Perce), and Wasco peoples of Central and Eastern Oregon. The collection also includes many materials related to Chemawa boarding school.
• Coquille Indian Tribe Library
  This page includes a list of newspapers published by Oregon tribes, about halfway down the page.