Access databases specific to historic research at any library branch or at home with your New Orleans Public Library Card.  While all databases can be helpful in research, there are a few that are very instrumental to historic research.

A few other databases available with your library that may be helpful as well are: 

History Makers – digital archive that contains video oral interviews with prominent African Americans 

History Reference Center –  full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books

Biography Reference Center – comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies