What are research guides?
These guides connect researchers with the Center for Brooklyn History’s materials on popular topics. While the guides are not comprehensive, they help navigate the many collections, focusing on archival documents and including books, photographs, maps, oral histories, and more. The guides also recommend outside collections and institutions.
More research guides are in the works! To recommend a topic, please email us at cbhreference@bklynlibrary.org.
Database tutorials
Learn how to navigate some of our most used digital resources with the tutorials below.
- Brooklyn Newsstand
- Digital Collections
- Digitized Directories
- Fire Insurance Maps Online
- High School Newspapers
- Land Conveyance Collection
- Web Archive
- 128 Pierrepont Street
- Agriculture
- Black History
- Brooklyn Dodgers
- Brooklyn Navy Yard
- Civil Rights
- Civil War
- Coney Island and Gravesend
- Family History and Genealogy Research
- Green-Wood Cemetery
- House and Building Research
- Indigenous Peoples of Long Island and New York
- Jewish History
- LGBTQ+ History
- Library Collections
- Neighborhood Change and Gentrification
- Oral History Collections
- Remote Research
- Waterfront: Business and Manufacturing
- Waterfront: Ferries