Collection of primary source materials presents multiple aspects of the African American community, focused on race relations across social, political, cultural and religious arenas.

Searchable archive of U.S. newspapers documenting the African American experience from the early 19th century to the end of the 20th century.

Collection of U.S. newspapers published and written by African Americans for African Americans in the South, from Reconstruction through the Jim Crow period (1870-1926).

Newspapers and magazines by and about African Americans from 1825-1995.

The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American to the major poets of the nineteenth century.

Collection of printed works providing insight into African-American culture and life from the beginning of Jim Crow to World War I and beyond. Capturing voices of, by, for, and about African Americans.

Archive of documents about African American life from post-Civil War years to the beginning of Jim Crow. Includes works of individuals and organizations, works of fiction, poetry and drama.

Books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera covering the history, peoples, and social and economic development of the African continent from the 16th century to the early 20th century.

Provides access to books, pamphlets, and broadsides related to African American history, literature, and culture, including the rise of slavery and descriptions of life for enslaved and free peoples.

News articles, radio transcripts, and television transcripts from around the world, covering race relations in the United States that were collected by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).

Translated TV and radio broadcasts, periodicals, newspapers, and government documents on Apartheid, from those who experienced apartheid and those around the world who watched and analyzed it.

Writings of Black dramatists from 1850 - present.

Primary sources from the African American struggle for freedom and equality from 1790 to the contemporary period.

Cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and more.

Source for African American video with broad multidisciplinary coverage of culture, politics, social and economic issues. Contains documentaries, primary and secondary source material.

Formerly known as International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) Full Text, this database includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsl...

Collection of non-fiction writings by American Black leaders, artists, politicians, religious leaders, and more; includes letters, speeches, essays, political leaflets, interviews, trial transcripts.

Collection of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by Black women from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and the rest of the African Diaspora.

Digital magazine archive (1945-2014) covering news, culture, and entertainment with a spotlight on Black life in America and worldwide.

Digital magazine archive (1951-2014) covering news, culture, the civil rights movement, and entertainment related to the Black community.

The Oxford African American Studies Center provides access to more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes several reference works with print counterparts - Afri...

Newspaper and pamphlet sources for access to research on Civil War era American history.

Digital newspaper archive of Atlanta Daily World (1932-2003) and Atlanta World (1931-1932).

Digital newspaper archive of various editions of Chicago Defender and Chicago Daily Defender, with coverage from from 1909 to 2010.

Digital newspaper archive of various editions of Cleveland Call and Post, with coverage from 1934 to 2010.

Digital archive of Black weekly newspaper covered civil rights issues, segregation, discrimination, and other issues of the African American community. Archive in progress, content still being added.

Digital newspaper archive of various editions of Los Angeles Sentinel, with coverage from from 1934 to 2010.

Digital newspaper archive of various editions of New York Amsterdam News, with coverage from from 1922 to 2010.

Digital newspaper archive of various editions of Pittsburgh Courier, with coverage from from 1911 to 2010.

Digital newspaper archive of the "Afro-American", one of the most widely circulated African-American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast, with content published from 1893 to 2010.

Materials from the Race Relations Department of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries documents responses to the challenges of overcoming prejudice, segregation and racial tensions in the United States.

Archive of correspondence of members of the Presbyterian Church's Board of Foreign Missions relating to their work among American Indians from 1833 to 1893.

The American Indian Experience is a portal and full-text online library of more than 150 titles; hundreds of primary documents and images, including treaties, speeches, traditional tales, and capti...

Digital archive of materials documents interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact through the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century.

FBI documentation on the evolution of American Indian Movement (AIM) as an organization of social protest, including the 1973 Wounded Knee Stand-off.

Digital archive of national, local and student newspapers published in the US and Canada by Indigenous peoples between 1828 - 2016. Includes some bilingual and Indigenous-language editions.

American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD 1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies ...

Based on sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection at the Newberry Library, this resource contains manuscript materials, broadsides, maps, photographs, and rare printed items documenting the his...

Archive of legal, political, and diplomatic documents about trade with American Indian tribes in the Southeastern United States, from 1763 to 1901.

Full-text legal materials by and about indigenous peoples of the United States, including treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence.

Online archive of primary source materials documenting the political, social, and cultural history of indigenous peoples of North America, 16th to 20th century.

Documents related to the government investigation into the consequences of the Dawes Act of 1887 including the Meriam Report, which declared that allotment had been a disaster for Native American communities.

Complete digitized collection of records and documents from Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendents, from 1813 to 1880.

Biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Peoples.

Digitized records, correspondence, and personal narratives document Indian Wars, westward migration, and the interaction among white settlers, the U.S. federal government, and Indian tribes.

Documentation of specific claims made by tribal nations against the United States; includes docket histories, court documents, treaties, congressional publications, and maps.

Correspondence related to Indian Affairs from the archives of the War Department, dating from 1800 and 1824.

Provides access to research and scholarly literature on East, Southeast, and South Asia written in Western languages. Covers all subjects, particularly in humanities and social sciences.

Web site of the Hmong Cultural Center located in Saint Paul, Minn. whose mission is to promote the personal development of children, youth, and adults through Hmong cultural education while providi...

Index of Hmong Studies publications from 1975 to 2018. Hmong Studies commits itself to studying HMoob subjectivities from a variety of disciplines, collected and collated from a variety of sources.

Archival records from the War Relocation Authority documents the day-to-day running of the 10 relocation camps that housed persons of Japanese heritage from the West Coast states between 1942 to 1946.

Selection of images and searchable texts from the Southeast Asian Archive at the UC Irvine Libraries on post-1975 refugees and immigrants from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and their U.S. communities.

Primary and secondary source materials documenting the history of the Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese diaspora.

Primary source documents, archives, films, and ephemera related to significant border areas and migration events from the 19th to 21st centuries.

This is the most comprehensive bibliographic resource for information about Mexican-American topics and the only specialized database for Chicano reference. It identifies, in one place, all types o...

Draws the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinx people. Over 900 articles on identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history.

Comprised of publications related to Latin America and the Caribbean since the late 1960s. Topics range from political, economic, and social issues to the arts and humanities.

This collection of Spanish and English language newspapers stems from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston. When complete, it will consist of 350 ...

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 S...

Original-language documentaries produced in Latin America, by Latin Americans, about Latin American issues.

Reference tool of authoritative research guides supporting the field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, combining aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

Open access to a growing library of thousands of policy-relevant documents about Jewish communal concerns, from significant authors, journals, and organizations. Includes over 40 years of SH'MA: A ...

The Internet Archive of Jewish Periodicals offers the full text of German-language, Jewish periodicals published mainly in Germany, beginning in 1806 and ending in 1938, with some limited coverage ...

Searchable online Yiddish-English dictionary, includes idioms, examples of usage, and dialect forms; with coverage of Yiddish words of all origins: Hebrew-Aramaic, Slavic, Romance, and Germanic.

The National Yiddish Book Center is proud to offer online access to the full texts of nearly 11,000 out-of-print Yiddish titles. You can browse, read, download or print any or all of these books, f...

English-language resource on Judaism. Covers diverse areas of Jewish history of all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings. Robust articles and bibliographies included.

A standard resource that offers articles on the history and study of the Hebrew language from its earliest attested form to today.

Online encyclopedia covering the history of Jews from 1750 until the 1950s, from Europe to America to the Middle East, North Africa and other non-European Jewish settlement areas.

Searchable collection of newspapers in ten languages published in the U.S., primarly focused on Czechs, French, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, Polish, and Slovak communities.

Manuscripts from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) of New York. This site includes an invitation to other libraries to submit manuscripts for digitization for Jewish c...

Article database of English language Jewish studies journals published in the United States, Canada, England, Israel, South Africa, and Australia.

Ongoing Yiddish language bibliographical project that records the contents of nearly 1000 periodicals published worldwide from 1862 onward.

Digitized and searchable version of the Jewish Encyclopedia, originally published between 1901-1906.

Digitized primary source collection of personal papers from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York documents the history of Jewish communities in America from 1654 to today.

Online resource providing information about Jewish history, Israel, U.S.-Israel relations, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and Judaism, and current affairs, through articles and images.

Digitized collection of Yiddish books printed in Hebrew letters in West, Central and East Europe, from 16th century to early 20th century.

The Jewish National and University Library is proud to announce the first stage of a project to digitize rare and out-of-print monographs from its collection. The aim of this project is to make the...

JTA Jewish & Israel News is a searchable database chronicling modern Jewish history, as seen through the eyes of journalists. It consists of articles published or disseminated by the JTA (Jewish Te...

A virtual museum of Jewish history and geneaology, covering Yiddish speaking Jews and Jews in the United States. Includes films, audio records, and book texts. (Updates ongoing)

This database is a massive digitization project of the Bavarian State Library in Munich. Collections include: incunabula (early printed books), German Parliamentary Publications, documents about th...

Reference tool of authoritative research guides designed to support the study of Jewish studies, combining aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

Project Ben-Yehuda aims to make accessible the classics of Hebrew literature (poetry and prose at first, and then essays etc.) to the reader of Hebrew. For that purpose, the literary works are conv...

Index to articles and books in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages, covering various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Israel.

Online encyclopedia of thousands of biographic and thematic essays on Jewish women from around the world.

A general gateway to Yiddish-language resources including some Yiddish books. (Updated irregularly)

Yiddish Sources is a portal for Yiddish and Yiddish Studies and offers up to date and comprehensive information including digitized collections. (Updates ongoing)

Online encyclopedia covers the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present.

Digitized newspapers produced by people who have been incarcerated in the United States.

News articles, radio transcripts, and television transcripts from around the world, covering race relations in the United States that were collected by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).

Index to international journals and special interest publications in all areas of anthropology and archaeology. Produced by the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Anthropology database (EBSCO) that provides access to literature in the fields of anthropology, archaeology and related fields. Includes sources in more than 50 languages.

Anthropology Online brings together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over. It will grow to bec...

Collection of local, regional, and national newspapers promoting white nationalism from Klan organizations and others, as well as those opposed published by ethnic, Catholic, and Jewish organizations.

Streaming classic and contemporary documentaries of human culture and behavior; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films.

Covers gender, women, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) issues from an array of academic, radical, community, and independent presses.

News articles, radio and television transcripts covering reports on human migrations and refugee experiences collected by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) from 1940s to 1996.

Searchable, multimedia collection supporting the study of important events and themes related to revolution and protest from the 18th century through the 21st century.

Documents and records pertaining to the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) collections which highlight efforts to meld the issue of civil rights and antipoverty initiatives.

Materials from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library document the in-depth analysis of poverty in the Midwestern States (1960 to 1968) with an extensive inventory of historical data at a local level.

Collection of correspondence, memoranda, reports, and other government records concerning activities of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and its work on community-based antipoverty programs.