A history of American life in images and texts, covering every region of the U.S

Hundreds of thousands of photographs and other primary-source materials from Alexander Street Press and Arcadia Publishing. Growing to more than a million images, 5,000 Arcadia titles, and 650,000 pages!

Subscribe annually or make a one-time purchase. Subscriptions start at just $995 a year.


100,000 pages, 150,000 images, and growing all the time!

Images are from historical societies, archives, and private collections. The narratives are written by local historians with unmatched personal knowledge.
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In-depth indexing

Cross-search everything by places, architectural features, people, organizations, historical events, ethnic groups, and more.


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For scholarship and teaching

Important for social history, labor studies, race and gender studies, politics, architecture, urban planning, sports history, and other topics.

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For public libraries

Become your community’s showcase for local history! Help patrons find family histories, first-person memories, and curbside images of places all over the U.S. through time. Learn more

At 100,000+ pages—150,000+ images—and growing, it’s a great value

Cross-search thousands of books—hundreds of thousands of photographs and other primary materials—and hundreds more Arcadia titles added every year.

With subscriptions starting at just $995, Local and Regional History Online costs less than $1 per title.

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Search power through semantic indexing

Explore the whole U.S. in a single search. Find places, including cities, states, towns, or counties easily. Search for familiar landmarks, including bridges, parks, and railroads. Look for people. Add to your understanding of historical events, through personal stories and photographs. All the texts and images are indexed—so searching is powerful and fast!


Serious scholarship

Trace the stories of immigrants, laborers, and newsmakers. Study the local architecture of homes and businesses. Identify images of racism and tolerance. Give students access to history as lived by everyday men and women and told by local observers.

Access photos from historical societies, archives, and private collections—many unavailable anywhere else. In many instances, the authors are protagonists in the historical events they describe.

Cross search hundreds of thousands of texts and images, then click, view, zoom, rotate, and more. This is a new kind of research tool—not merely a collection of individual books.


Public libraries

Become the place patrons go for community history. Give genealogists much more than the “raw facts,” through personal stories and images. Let people trace their family histories over place and time—Local and Regional History Online covers every region of the U.S.