History: Arizona & the Southwest

GCU Library's Digital Collections are the primary access point for the GCU Historical Archives and will ultimately house all of the digitized content from this project. Like the Arizona Memory Project’s Grand Canyon University-Historical Collections, the Library’s own digital repository will feature the same 150 photos, but includes much more!

These collections document the region’s culture and history, including accounts of Native Americans, the impact of Spanish and Mexican settlement, and the influx of other groups into the region starting in the 19th century.

Here you will find digitized versions of photographs, documents, and other materials available in our museums and archives across the state.

The Arizona Memory Project provides access to the wealth of primary sources in Arizona archives, museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions. Visitors to the site will find some of the best examples of government documents, photographs, maps, and multimedia that chronicle Arizona's past and present.

Collections from the University of Arizona’s Special Collections containing primary sources documenting the history of the southwest borderlands.

Explore thousands of vintage and contemporary photographs, diaries and letters, oral history interviews, films, and maps which document the history and development of the Colorado Plateau from ancient cultures to the present.

The online collections of the Arizona historical museum.

The Bexar Archives are the official Spanish documents that preserve the political, military, economic, and social life of the Spanish province of Texas and the Mexican state of Coahulia y Texas. Both in their volume and breadth of subject matter, the Bexar Archives are the single most important source for the history of Hispanic Texas up to 1836.

The CHS Digital Library is an online archive of digitized primary sources from the CHS Collection. The CHS Collection represents the environmental, economic, social, political, and cultural heritage of the entire state, including materials from outside California that contribute to a greater understanding of the state and its people.

Calisphere is a gateway to digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 1,975,000 images, texts, and recordings—and counting.

The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.

Explore Colorado’s past through the archives, artifacts, and photographs of the History Colorado Collection.

The Cooperative's member libraries have pooled their resources here, in order to facilitate access to historical Nevada newspapers, oral histories, yearbooks and more.

New Mexico Digital Collections is the central search portal for digital collections about New Mexico. A service of the University of New Mexico Libraries, the portal provides access to digitized photographs, manuscripts, posters, oral histories, videos, maps, and books from libraries, museums, and cultural centers across the state.

Collection strengths: Photography of the American West, Native American History, and Mormon Americana.

The Texas Digital Archive (TDA) manages, preserves, and facilitates access to the electronic records collections of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, including those transferred by state agencies or digitized by the State Archives.

Online access to Utah government’s digitized archival collections.