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Primary source material from 18th and 19th Century publications, including The Liberator 1831-1865, Godey`s Lady`s Book 1830-1889, The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, African American Newspapers: The 19th Century, American County Histories to 1900, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue, The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record, and The South Carolina Gazette.
** On August 30, 2024, Accessible Archives moved to the History Commons platform **
This database is a global (non-U.S.) collection for international study of black history and culture. The contributions, struggles, and identities of the African Diaspora are presented through personal accounts, video, and primary sources with a focus on the migrations, communities, and ideologies of people of African descent. The collection includes digitized primary source documents, including books, government documents, personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera.
Archive Finder is an index of over 206,000 manuscript collections as well as a directory of primary source repositories in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland. Researchers can use it to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work. Archive Finder is comprised of ArchivesUSA and the cumulative index to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland (NIDS UK/Ireland).
Historical documents covering a broad range of topics. Strengths include U.S. foreign policy, U.S. civil rights, gender, sexuality, and women's studies, the Holocaust, and modern history of Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
We subscribe to more than 70 collections:
Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files
African America, Communists, and the National Negro Congress, 1933-1947
America in Protest: Records of Anti-Vietnam War Organizations, The Vietnam Veterans Against the War
American Indian Correspondence: Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893
American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
Archives of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: Annual Reports, Minutes and other Records, 1958-1972
Archives of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: Annual Reports, Minutes and other Records, 1973-1980, and pamphlets and serial items, 1958-1980
Archives of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: Annual Reports, Minutes and other Records, pamphlets and serial items, 1981-1985
Archives of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: Pamphlets and Serials, 1985-1990 and Bruce Kent's Speeches and Articles, 1981-1989
Archives of the Work Projects Administration and Predecessors, 1933-1943: Final State Reports for the Federal Music Project, the Federal Art Project, the Museum Extension Project, the Federal Theatre Project, and the Federal Writers' Project
Black Liberation Army and the Program of Armed Struggle
Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement: The Papers of Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford)
City and Business Directories: Alabama, 1837-1929
City and Business Directories: Louisiana, 1805-1929
City and Business Directories: Maryland, 1752-1929
City and Business Directories: Mississippi, 1860-1929
City and Business Directories: Tennessee, 1849-1929
City and Business Directories: Virginia, 1801-1929
City and Business Directories: West Virginia, 1839-1929
Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons
Counterattack Project: The FBI Files
East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963
Evangelism in Africa: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1835-1910
FBI File on Albert Einstein
FBI File on America First Committee
FBI File on Harry Dexter White
FBI File on Joseph Kennedy
FBI File on Nelson Rockefeller
FBI File on Robert F. Kennedy
FBI Surveillance of James Forman and SNCC
Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s
Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984
Federal Surveillance of the Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño
Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents
Food History: Printed and Manuscript Recipe Books, 1669-1990
Foreign Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944
George H. W. Bush and Foreign Affairs: The Moscow Summit and the Dissolution of the USSR
German Anti-Semitic Propaganda, 1909-1941
Global Missions and Theology
Grassroots Civil Rights & Social Activism: FBI Files on Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.
Greensboro Massacre, 1979
Holocaust and the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes
Intelligence Reports from the National Security Council's Vietnam Information Group, 1967-1975
Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West's Response to Jewish Emigration
JFK and Foreign Affairs, 1961-1963
Japan at War and Peace, 1930-1949: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Japan
Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life
Jewish Underground Resistance: The David Diamant Collection
Journaux de la Révolution de 1848 (Newspapers of the French Revolution 1848)
La France pendant la guerre 1939-1945: Résistance et journaux de Vichy (Voices from Wartime France 1939-1945: Clandestine Resistance and Vichy Newspapers)
Liberation Movement in Africa and African America
Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers' Project
Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia
National Farm Worker Ministry: Mobilizing Support for Migrant Workers, 1939-1985
National Security and FBI Surveillance Enemy Aliens
Nazi Bank and Financial Institutions: U.S. Military Government Investigation Reports and Interrogations of Nazi Financiers, 1945-1949
Nazism in Poland: The Diary of Governor-General Hans Frank
Nuremberg Laws and Nazi Annulment of German Jewish Nationality
Official and Confidential Files of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Beyond the Daughters of Bilitis
Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis
Republic of New Afrika
SAFEHAVEN Reports on Nazi Looting of Occupied Countries and Assets in Neutral Countries
Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Communist Party
The Amerasia Affair, China, and Postwar Anti-Communist Fervor
The Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955
The Hindu Conspiracy Cases: Activities of the Indian Independence Movement in the U.S., 1908-1933
The Jewish Question: Records from the Berlin Document Center
The Minutemen, 1963-1969: Evolution of the Militia Movement in America, Part I
The War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824
Through the Camera Lens: The Moving Picture World and the Silent Cinema Era, 1907-1927
Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China relations, 1989-1993
U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950
We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961
Witchcraft in Europe and America
Women's Issues and Their Advocacy Within the White House, 1974-1977
Women's Periodicals: Social and Political Issues
World Communism: Pamphlets from McMaster University
This primary source collection details the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings of the activists themselves.
1,700+ full text plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays.
Collection comprises approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders covering 250 years of history, and includes letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts in addition to familiar works.
This collection of primary source materials documents the struggle for Black civil rights in the United States during the 20th century. In addition to NAACP papers, there are federal government records, organzational records, and personal papers of civil rights activists and leaders.
This primary source collection contains digitized images of nearly every extant book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America from 1639 to 1819. Series I is based on a definitive work called the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and covers 1639-1800. Series II, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, covers 1801-1819.
Contains full-page images of nearly 500 historic colonial and U.S. newspapers, based on the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.
Provides facsimile editions of a key 20th century publication covering African-American business, history, politics, entertainment, fashion and culture. Ebony's editorial philosophy is to “showcase the best and brightest as well as highlighting the disparities in Black life in the United States and worldwide”. Coverage: 1945-2014
Contains files of the FBI Counterintelligence Program (CONTELPRO) from 1956 to 1971 on prominent black Americans and their organizations.
Full text access to 1,000+ film scripts from 1903 to 2006, with PDF versions as available. Includes the ability to search by writer, director, scene, race, nationality, age, subject, year of writing, and other elements.
Digitized archives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This archive examines the realities of segregation and coverage spans from 1909 to 1972. Includes nearly 2 million pages of internal memos, legal briefings and direct action summaries from the association's offices throughout the United States.
Beginning in 1788 with Lord Dunmore's offer of emancipation and ending in 1896 with Plessy v. Ferguson, Part IV: Age of Emancipation includes a range of rare documents related to the emancipation of slaves in the United States, as well as Latin America, the Caribbean, and other areas of the world. Emancipation was a long-sought dream that eventually became a political and moral expectation.
Plantation Records are both business records and personal papers because the plantation was both the business and the home for plantation owners. Business records include ledger books, payroll books, cotton ginning books, work rules, account books, and receipts. Personal papers include family correspondence, diaries, and wills. As business owners, the commodities produced by plantation owners--rice, cotton, sugar, tobacco, hemp, and others--accounted for more than half of the nation's exports.
Declassified FBI files on the group of civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated South in 1961 to test the United States Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia.
Primary source material from 18th and 19th Century publications, including The Liberator 1831-1865, Godey`s Lady`s Book 1830-1889, The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, African American Newspapers: The 19th Century, American County Histories to 1900, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue, The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record, and The South Carolina Gazette.
** On August 30, 2024, Accessible Archives moved to the History Commons platform **
Covers 270 newspapers from every region of the United States, including 7 from Washington DC.
Full text access to seven 19th century African American newspapers.
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995, features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
Full text access to the historical American newspapers The American Hebrew (1879-1902 and 1922), The Jewish Messenger (1857 to 1902) and the combined The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1903 to 1922).
Includes two collections, American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) and American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries (APCRL), that contain digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the middle of the 20th century.
This three part collection includes News Features & internal communications from 1848-2000, Washington, D.C. Bureau records from 1938-2009, and U.S. City Bureaus from 1931-2004).
This resource was made possible through the Samuel & Lucy Keker Endowed Library Fund.
A digitized version of the complete Atlanta Constitution newspaper starting in 1868 and running to 1945. Every year three additional years of content will be added.
The Atlanta Daily World offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. It examines major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and explores everyday life.
Contains full-text and full-image articles as well as digital reproductions of every page and every article from every issue in downloadable PDF files, including news stories, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, and advertisements.
Complete issues, from 1893 to 1988, of one of the most widely-circulated African American newspapers.
A digitized version of a leading African American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago. This database contains the complete run of the Chicago Defender from 1910 to 2010.
A digitized version of the complete Chicago Tribune newspaper starting from 1849 to 1990.
Newspaper founded by Garrett Morgan, inventor of the gas mask and traffic light. Contributors included noted journalists Charles H. Loeb and John Fuster. The newspaper is well known for its support of the Scottsboro trial defendants with letters, clothing, stamps, and donations to the defense fund. Coverage from 1934 to 1991.
Contains full-page images of nearly 500 historic colonial and U.S. newspapers, based on the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.
An interactive database of Harper's Weekly magazine from the Civil War Era through the Gilded Age.
Coverage: 1857-1912
Founded in 1919, The Call played a crucial role in providing leadership for the Black community. Over the course of its 102-year history, it has emerged as one of the most successful Black newspapers in the United States, consistently covering civil rights issues and fighting against segregation, discrimination, and other important issues facing African Americans. The paper has a long-standing history of encouraging African Americans to register and vote,
Coverage: 1919-2010 with some exceptions
The oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S. Coverage 1934-2005.
Access to the Los Angeles times from 1881 through 2012.
The Louisville Defender is a weekly newspaper and has been one of the main Black newspapers in the local Louisville area. It is an excellent source for coverage on issues affecting African Americans. The newspaper played an integral role in the fight for integration in the 1960s. Coverage is for 1951-2010.
The leading Black newspaper of the 20th century reached its peak in the 1940s. The Amsterdam News was a strong advocate for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and also covered the historically important Harlem Renaissance. Coverage from 1922 to 1993.
The Tribune, founded by Horace Greeley, contained influential editorials on abolition, and other major issues such as the settlement of the West. In addition to politics and reform, this newspaper also reported on the arts, New York society, sports, business and finance, and is useful for researching key events of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Access to the New York Times from 1851 to 2017.
The digitized version of the complete Wall Street Journal, with global coverage of business and financial news, starting from 1889. Coverage through 2011. For more recent and current coverage, please find the Wall Street Journal in our list of databases.
Access to the Washington Post from 1877 through 2007.
The AP Newsroom collection features more than 3.5 million historical and contemporary images to help your audiences connect with the story.
Artstor content is now available on JSTOR. The Artstor website was retired on August 1, 2024.
Read about the transition on this information page.
Among the topics covered are educational methods, expenses, Indian customs, treaties with the government, and the Indians' reactions to denying their heritage - often a condition of accepting new faith.
Consists of letters to and from the War Department. Includes speeches to Native Americans, proceedings of conferences in Washington, licenses of traders, passports for Indian Country, and instructions to officials.
Database’s scope focuses on LGBTQ history, culture, and the study of sex and sexuality from the 1600 to present. A primary source database, Archives of Sexuality and Gender supports research in queer history and activism, human rights, gender studies, and erotic literature as well as related fields including psychology, sociology, health, political science, policy studies, medicine, biology, anthropology, law, the classics, and art. These fully searchable collections include rare and unique content from newsletters, organizational papers, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other types of primary sources. Additionally includes primary source materials of underrepresented and often excluded groups even within the LGBTQ communities. Includes LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 Parts I & II; Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century; and International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture.
Spanning many genres and historical periods, this collection contains over 69,000 tracks from over 4,000 albums.
Streaming audio access to more than 3,700 albums' worth of recordings, spanning all genres. Includes liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives.
A source for breaking music industry news, including people, competitions, awards, reviews, and more. Also included is the Musical American International Directory of the Performing Arts, a directory of more than 14,000 worldwide arts organizations.
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