Yiddish Sources is a portal for Yiddish and Yiddish Studies and offers up to date and comprehensive information including digitized collections. (Updates ongoing)
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.
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.
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.
Covers all aspects of sociology, including abortion, criminal justice, ethnicity and race, gender studies, politics, religion, social work, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and more.
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.
Searchable, multimedia collection supporting the study of important events and themes related to revolution and protest from the 18th century through the 21st century.
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.
Documentation of specific claims made by tribal nations against the United States; includes docket histories, court documents, treaties, congressional publications, and maps.
Digitized records of enslaved people and plantations in North Carolina and Virginia. Includes lists of enslaved people, plantation diaries, correspondence, and financial and legal papers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
Biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Peoples.
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...
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)
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.
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...
Archive of scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and mathematics. Journal coverage is volume 1 of each title until 3-5 years ago (embargo period varies by title).
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...
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 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.
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.
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.
Digital archive of materials documents interactions between Indigenous Peoples in North America and European colonists, from earliest contact to the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century.