National History Day 2025

Make sure to search in the box marked (Search the Commons) to explore historical photographs and collections from over 100 institutions worldwide (including the Library of Congress).

Explore the online catalog for prints and photographs

Explore millions of photographs in the LIFE photo archive, spanning from the 1750s to today. Many of these previously unpublished images are now accessible for the first time through the collaboration between LIFE and Google.

Explore over 1.7 million videos at the National Archives Moving Image Collection. Including primary sources such as animations, historic newsreels, documentaries, technology snapshots, movies (films, shorts and trailers), news, sports, television shows and commercials.