Many of the more recent guides are rated for their usefulness. Guides older then 12 months are separated into their own database. One can search by menu choices or by using a search engine. The Search engine searches the Title, Author, Institution and Descriptive keywords of the guides. Truncation is allowed.
Users can visit a subject link and select from the web pages grouped there.
The growing collection of electronic texts includes slave narratives, diaries of white travellers in the ante-bellum South, and texts designed to teach Christianity to slaves. They have concentrated on including sites that are scholarly or of high quality. They use Library of Congress Subject Headings and have a powerful search engine. An excellent source to search. The Internet Public Library is organized like a traditional public library.