Humanities & math
Historical archives
Historical newspapers, manuscripts and images from the Library of Congress and Europeana, plus integer sequences from the OEIS.
1 credit / call|search_archives, lookup_integer_sequence
Once connected, say this to your agent
Find newspaper coverage of the 1918 influenza in Chicago, October 1918.
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Toolssearch_archives, lookup_integer_sequence
Example
YOU SAY TO YOUR AGENT
Find photographs of suffragette parades from 1908 to 1915.
On the right: the call your agent makes and the reply it got on 2026-10-13, shortened to the first records and a few of their fields.
search_archives({
"query": "suffragette parade",
"type": "image",
"date_from": 1908,
"date_to": 1915,
"limit": 6
})
{
"summary": "6 image items for \"suffragette parade\", 1908–1915 from loc, europeana. Check each item's rights statement before reuse.",
"records": [
{
"title": "Suffragette parade Mch. 3d 1913",
"url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/2001704194/",
"source": "loc",
"data": {
"date": "1913-01-01",
"kind": "photo, print, drawing",
"place": "Washington D.C.",
"lccn": "2001704194",
"snippet": "1 photographic print. | Photograph shows nurses marching to support women's suffrage near the U.S. Capitol."
}
},
{
"title": "Academics' Train - Part of a Great Procession in London 18 June 1910",
"url": "https://www.europeana.eu/item/2024917/photography_ProvidedCHO_Arbejdermuseet___ABA_F20091001010",
"source": "europeana",
"data": {
"date": "1910",
"kind": "image",
"institution": "Workers Museum",
"country": "Denmark",
"rights": "http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/"
}
}
],
"credits_used": 1
}What you get
- Items with dates, rights and page text
Good fit
- History, media studies and digital humanities
Not for
- In-copyright full texts
Similar capabilities
Frequently asked questions
Your agent calls search_archives, lookup_integer_sequence over MCP. ScholarMuse queries Library of Congress, Europeana, OEIS and returns records, each with its source, licence and a link you can check.
No. It costs 1 credit per call, charged only when the call succeeds. A new account gets 50 credits once, valid for 30 days.
Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and any other client that supports MCP.
Yes. The same tools (search_archives, lookup_integer_sequence) are available over the REST API.