The free source list.
Every link on this site is human tested and verified. Find sources with named authors you can verify and primary material. No Wikipedia. No paywalls. Every link comes from one of the two lists below, and the date beside each source is the last time a person opened it.
A named author or a named institution stands behind every entry.
Commissioned, signed biographies from the Australian National University.
Opened September 14, 2026.
Entries on African American and global African history, each with a named contributor and their sources.
Opened September 14, 2026.
Full-length biographies written by named experts, University of Toronto and Université Laval.
Opened September 14, 2026. The author's name appears at the end of each entry.
Signed entries from the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Opened September 14, 2026.
Entries written by scholars and fact checked, from Virginia Humanities and the Library of Virginia.
Opened September 14, 2026. Byline check pending.
Signed entries on Texas people, places, and events, published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Opened September 14, 2026.
Biographies of more than 3,000 mathematicians by Edmund Robertson and John O'Connor, University of St Andrews.
Opened September 14, 2026.
Histories of people and places tied to the parks, written and dated by the agency.
Opened September 14, 2026.
Signed entries from Georgia Humanities and the University of Georgia Press.
Opened September 14, 2026.
Entries written and maintained by named scholars, each carrying its author's name.
Opened September 14, 2026.
The document itself: letters, speeches, records, and books out of copyright, scanned and readable on the page.
Historic American newspaper pages, 1777 to 1963, from the Library of Congress.
Confirmed September 14, 2026.
Full texts of Southern and African American primary sources, University of North Carolina.
Opened September 14, 2026.
Digitized items from Europe's museums, archives, and libraries.
Confirmed September 14, 2026.
The papers of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Jay, and Madison, transcribed and annotated.
Opened September 14, 2026.
Millions of digitized books from research libraries.
Confirmed September 14, 2026. Only items marked Full view qualify; search-only items do not.
Scanned books and documents from library collections.
Opened September 14, 2026. Scans only; borrow-only books need an account and do not qualify.
Scanned government records, featured documents, and online exhibits.
Opened September 14, 2026.
Nobel lectures, speeches, and biographical records for every laureate.
Opened September 14, 2026.
The official results of every Olympic Games, athlete by athlete, compiled by a named team of Olympic historians with the IOC's support. Biographies are unsigned; the results are the record.
Opened September 14, 2026.
Speeches, remarks, and papers of each administration, kept by the National Archives.
Opened September 14, 2026.
Books out of copyright, readable online in full.
Opened September 14, 2026.
Paywalled. Sites that aren't free to open: paywalls, subscriptions, or a required account. Newspapers.com and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography are two examples.
Crowd-sourced. Crowd-written, unsigned sites, where anyone can edit and no one signs. Wikipedia and Fandom are two examples.
Unsigned. Self-published or anonymous pages: blogs, forums, videos, and AI answers.
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