Ryan Tanner-Read
History and International Relations Teacher
History and International Relations Teacher
Scholarly Sources
When you're engaging in research for history, use the sources below to find scholarly sources.
Scholarly Sources
Below, find resources to find scholarly sources. Most of these sources require you to log in with your Derryfield credentials, which you can find here. Click on the drop-downs to view the sources.
The Best Options for Scholarly Sources
- ABC-Clio: Essays, articles, primary source material, video and audio clips on various aspects of history, both American and international.
- JSTOR: A digital library with access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
- RTR's Classroom Library: This site lists all the books in the classroom in a searchable database.
Other Useful Sources
- Academic Search Premier: This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
- EBSCOHost: back issues of hundreds of periodicals, plus a readers' advisory web site.
- Kanopy: A film streaming service providing thoughtful entertainment with no fees and no commercials. Kanopy provides access to a wide array of films and documentaries on a broad scope of topics.
- Masterfile Premier: Full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
- Topicsearch: Full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
Primary Sources
When you're engaging in research for history, use the sources below to find primary sources and other materials.
Primary Sources
Below, find open access primary source materials online grouped by topic. Scroll down to find topics that interest you and click the drop-down to see the sources.
General American History
- Beinecke Library at Yale: Yale's rare book library, the Beinecke, has more than a million images of its collection including books dating back to the fifteenth century.
- Calisphere: This searchable database from the University of California system includes artifacts, photos, documents, oral histories, and more from events of local and national importance. The archives include histories of minorities, wars, sports, leisure, art, nature and the environment, education, and much more.
- Digital Public Library of America: The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science.
- Documenting the American South: Created by the University of North Carolina, Documenting the American South (DocSouth) includes sixteen thematic collections of primary sources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture.
- Early American Sources: Early American Sources makes researching easier than ever in this digital age. This site helps to to connect scholars of all levels to primary sources related to the Americas from roughly 1500 to 1900. It offers information on archives and research libraries that hold collections of early American materials, as well as links to online resources that specialize in the early Americas.
- Early Americas Digital Archive: The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
- Foreign Relations of the United States: The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity from Abraham Lincoln to the present.
- Hathi Trust: Hathi Trust is a digital repository and research management tool for the United States' great research libraries, focused on providing scholars in the digital age with the largest collection of electronic research material this side of Google Book Search, large-scale full-text searching and archiving tools to manage it.
- America's Historic Newspapers: Full text of newspapers from 1690 through the 20th century. The complete editions of the papers, including illustrations, advertisements, cartoons, classifieds and more are fully searchable. This is a DS resource (see Ms. Burdette for log-in information).
- Historic American Newspapers: Library of Congress searchable and full text newspapers from 1836 to 1922 in selected states. Directory of newspapers from 1690 to present.
- John Carter Brown Library: The JCB's collection of 50,000 rare books, maps and manuscripts encompasses more than two hundred languages and spans over three centuries of early American history.
- Library of Congress Digital Archives: Searches across and provides access to the more than 300 digital collections created by the Library of Congress. Includes photos, prints, drawings, maps, books, manuscripts, audio recordings, films, notated music, newspapers, and archived websites.
- "Making of America" from Cornell University Library: The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.
- Massachusetts Historical Society Digital Collections: The Massachusetts Historical Society has materials covering a wide range of American history well beyond Massachusetts. The digital collections are sets of digitized items which have been organized either around a common topic, such as the American Revolution, or to highlight a specific collection, such as the papers of Thomas Jefferson.
- Newberry Library: Explore more than 1 million digitized items including manuscripts, maps, books, photographs, artworks, & other rare & unique materials from the collections of the Newberry, Chicago's independent research library since 1887.
- New York Public Library Digital Collection: Digital collections at the New York Public Library include everything from contemporary photographs to historic manuscript documents from the colonial period.
- Smithsonian Online Virtual Archive: The primary sources of the Smithsonian document the history of art, culture, music, design, flight, space exploration, science and technology, landscapes and gardens, and native cultures in the United States, as well as the long history of the Smithsonian itself.
- UCLA Digital Library: The UCLA Library Digital Collections includes rare and unique digital materials developed by the UCLA Library to support education, research, service, and creative expression.
- US News Map: This interactive website allows researchers to search and map over eleven million newspaper pages between 1789 and 1922
African-American History
- African American AIDS History Project: A crowd-contributed archive of African American responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
- African-American World War I Portal: This subject portal highlights records of Federal agencies and collections that relate to Black life during the World War I Era. The selected records contain information on various topics, which include work, military involvement, arts & intellectuals, racial violence and the Great Migration. It also includes records on several individuals, including Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Paul Robeson, Mary Church Terrell and Jack Johnson. This subject portal is not meant to be exhaustive, but to provide guidance to researchers interested in African Americans during the Great War years and their relation to the Federal government.
- Atlanta University Center Digital Collections: This site contains digital collections including oral history projects centering Atlanta history and famous Atlanta residents, The Reverend Robert E. Penn Collection, Morehouse College Photographs, Spellman College Photographs, Spellman College Theatre and Dance Collection, The Society for the Study of Black Religion Collection, Martin Luther King Fellows in Black Religious Studies Collection, and more.
- African American Trail Project: The African American Trail Project is a collaborative public history initiative housed at Tufts University. Originally inspired by the scholarship of Tufts Professor Gerald R. Gill (1948-2007) and driven by faculty and student research, this project maps African American and African-descended public history sites across greater Boston, and throughout Massachusetts.
- Arabella Chapman Project: Two photo albums assembled by an African American woman and her family in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
- Black Film Archive: Black films made from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming.
- Black Panther Party History and Geography:
- This website provides maps of Black Panther Party activity on a national scale and in key cities.
- Black Women Oral History Project: The Black Women Oral History Project interviewed 72 African American women between 1976 and 1981.
- Black Women Oral History Project: The Black Women Oral History Project interviewed 72 African American women between 1976 and 1981.
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938: Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown: This oral history project contains interviews from Black, Brown, and white activists in the African American and Chicano/a civil rights movements in Texas.
- Civil Rights Movement Archive: Compilation of documents and writings by veterans of the Civil Rights Movement.
- The Colored Conventions Project: The Colored Conventions Project contains exhibits and documents pertaining to the work of Black men, women, children, leaders, and participants in early conventions and other organizations in the early United States. The records focus on a number of issues including: Black movement in the pre-Civil War and Jim Crow eras, the carceral state, equal jury representation, women and children's issues, and the organization of national conventions.
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Actions 1942-1970: This website provides a map of CORE activity from 1942 to 1970 with breakdowns by time and region.
- Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection: The Cullen Jackman Memorial Collection (1881-1995) documents the artistic and creative nature of those of African descent.
- Digital Harlem, 1915-1930: This website provides an interactive, digital map of Harlem (NYC), with information about events, sites, and important people.
- Digital Library on American Slavery: This website includes collections such as the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, the North Carolina Runaway Advertisement Project, People Not Property - Slave Deeds of North Carolina, Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Database, and Slave Era Insurance Registries.
- Freedmen's Bureau Records: This archive contains the records of the Freedmen's Bureau, including the headquarters, state-level archives, field offices, marriages, and more.
- Freedom on the Move: A database of fugitives from North American slavery including "runaway ads," etc.
- Getting Word Oral History Project: This oral history project includes interviews by the descendants of individuals enslaved at Thomas Jefferson's plantation, Monticello.
- The Green Book: This collection from the New York Public Library contains digital scans of the "Negro Motorists Green Book" starting in 1937.
- Ida B. Wells Papers 1884-1976 at University of Chicago: Papers contain correspondence, manuscript of Crusade for Justice: the Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, diaries, copies of articles and speeches by Wells, articles and accounts about Wells, newspapers clippings, and photographs. Also contains Alfreda M. Duster's (Wells' daughter) working copies of the autobiography which Duster edited. Correspondents include Frederick Douglass and Albion Tourgee. Includes photocopies of correspondence of Wells' husband Ferdinand Barnett and a scrapbook of newspapers articles written by him.
- Ida B. Wells Barnett Papers from Black Women's Suffrage: Contains correspondence, manuscript of Crusade for Justice: the Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, diaries, copies of articles and speeches by Wells, articles, and accounts about Wells, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
- Jacob Lawrence - the Migration Series: This site explores the Great Migration through the life and art of artist Jacob Lawrence.
- Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery: Last seen is recovering stories of families separated in the domestic slave trade. Formerly enslaved people placed these ads hoping to reconnect with family and loved ones for decades following emancipation. The ads serve as testaments to their enduring hope and determination to regain what was taken from them.
- Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America: Mapping Inequality opens the HOLC files at the National Archives to scholars, students, and residents and policy leaders in local communities. This site makes the well-known security maps of HOLC available in digital form, as well as the data and textual assessments of the area descriptions that were created to go with the maps.
- Mary Church Terrell Papers: The papers of educator, lecturer, suffragist, and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954). Spanning the years 1851 to 1962, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1886-1954, the collection contains diaries, correspondence, printed matter, clippings, and speeches and writings, primarily focusing on Terrell's career as an advocate of women's rights and equal treatment of African Americans.
- NAACP History and Geography: This website provides maps of NAACP activity, membership, and movement during the 20th century.
- The Negro Leagues Archive (baseball): This collection includes photos, items, and text documents from the baseball Negro Leagues through the 20th century.
- North American Slave Narratives: North American Slave Narratives collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of Black people struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of self-emancipated and formerly enslaved people published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. Also included are many of the biographies of self-emancipated and formerly enslaved people and some significant fictionalized first-person accounts of enslavement published in English before 1920.
- Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection: An extensive collection of slavery and abolitionist materials gathered by Reverend Samuel Joseph May. Numbering over 10,000 titles, May's pamphlets document the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels.
- Slavery, Emancipation, Abolition and Freedom Collection: Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library (SAEF) is a growing digital collection highlighting materials related to Black history and culture from Harvard University's Houghton Library. These materials were hand-selected to provide freely accessible digitized primary sources for scholars of all sorts.
- Slave Voyages: This site is a collaborative digital project that contains records of slave trades and slave ships.
- SNCC History and Geography: This website provides maps of SNCC demonstrations and activity from 1960-1970.
- SNCC Digital Primary Sources: The SNCC digital primary sources page includes links to several digital collections from individual SNCC contributors, as well as organizations that contributed to the larger civil rights struggle.
- The Spread of U.S. Slavery, 1790–1860: This interactive map uses US Census data to visualize the spread of slavery in the United States from 1790 to 1860.
- W.E.B. DuBois Papers: Includes over 100,000 digitized items from W.E.B. Du Bois including: speeches, articles, essays, newspapers, manuscripts, poetry, and more.
Disability History
- ADA Archive: This Archive captures the progression of how the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and ADA Amendments Act (“ADAAA”) became law. It also contains documents from the personal archive of Chai R. Feldblum, a leader in the movement to pass the ADA and ADAAA, as examples of the dedication and quantity of manpower necessary to enact such landmark legislation.
- The Autism History Project: This archive contains publications and other primary sources pertaining to the history of Autism and Autism research in the 20th century.
- Gallaudet University Archives and Deaf Collections: This archive contains publications for and by Deaf populations such as Deaf Mutes Journal, Deaf Mutes Companion, The Silent World, The Silent Worker, National Deaf Mute Gazette, and The Buff & Blue.
- Pennsylvania State Archives - Office of Mental Health: This archive contains ledgers, doctor notes, and administrative records of mental hospitals for the State of Pennsylvania for nearly 20 hospitals.
- Perkins School for the Blind Archives: The Perkins School Archives contains documents, oral histories, and artifacts pertaining to the histories of people who are blind and deafblind. The archive includes collections including the Hellen Keller and Anne Sullivan Collection, Red Cross Institute for the Blind, and more.
- Wm. Oland Bourne Papers: The papers of reformer, poet, editor, and clergyman William Oland Bourne (1819-1901) span the years 1841-1885, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1856-1867. As editor of the periodical The Soldier's Friend, Bourne sponsored a contest in 1865-1866 in which Union soldiers and sailors who lost their right arms by disability or amputation during the Civil War were invited to submit samples of their penmanship using their left hands.
Immigration History
- American Panorama: American Panorama uses maps and historical census data to show where populations settled in the United States.
- Archive of Immigrant Voices: University of Maryland Oral History Archive featuring interviews with immigrants to the United States.
- Bracero History Archive: The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.
- Brown University: Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 Collection: This collection contains thousands of items related to voluntary migration to the United States from the nation's founding to the Great Depression, including: photographs and posters, court records, books, letters and diaries, reports. etc.
- Chicana Por Mi Raza: The online digital repository currently contains approximately 7,000 available digital records and over 500 interview clips focused on the experience of Chicanas.
- Chicano/a Movement in Washington: This collection includes documents, a timeline, oral histories, and other resources concerning the Chicano/a Movement in the state of Washington.
- Chicano/Latino Movements History and Geography: This site provides maps of various Chicano/Latino movements including: LULAC, the UFW, MEChA, the Raza Unida Party, the Brown Berets, and others.
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Oral History: This oral history project contains interviews from Black, Brown, and white activists in the African American and Chicano/a civil rights movements in Texas.
- Ellis Island Passenger Records: Ellis Island Passenger Search database, home to 65 million records of passengers arriving to the Port of New York from 1820 to 1957.
- Harvard University Immigration to the United States, 1789 - 1930 Collection: Documenting voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression.
- Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) History and Geography 1929-1970: This website provides a map of Japanese American Citizens League chapters nationally, as well as data on individual chapters and their leadership.
- Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas visualizes Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s transformations during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Drawing on 1850, 1880, and 1910 census data, it shows how migration, residential, and occupational patterns shaped the city.
- Mapping the Mexican Midwest: This website provides a map of historic sites to the Mexican American community in the Midwest, including community organizations, churches, consulates, and more.
- Onda Latina: The Mexican American Experience: The Onda Latina Collection consists of 226 digitally preserved audio programs including interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns from the radio series "The Mexican American Experience" and "A esta hora conversamos" the Longhorn Radio Network, 1976-1982.
- South Asian Oral History Project: The SAOHP represents one of the first attempts in the U.S. to record pan-South Asian immigrant experiences in the Pacific Northwest using the medium of oral history. This initiative not only has the goal of preserving the history of South Asian immigration to the region, but also of making these historical resources/material available to everyone.
- Tejano Voices Oral History Project: Oral histories of 170+ Tejanos/Tajanas in the post-WWII period.
- Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation Oral History Interviews: Oral history interviews with Vietnamese Americans.
- Voces Oral History Center: The leading Latino oral history archive in the United States. It began in 1999, with a mission of capturing untold stories of Latinos and Latinas who served, in the military or on the home front, during World War II. The archive has expanded to include the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and Political and Civic Engagement, focusing on the continuing fight for Latino civil rights.
Labor History
- American Federation of Labor Records: The 1883-1925 papers of Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) and William Green (1870-1952).
- CIO Unions History and Geography: This website provides maps that explore the makeup of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) from its founding in 1935 to 1950.
- Communist Party USA History and Geography: This website provides maps of the political activities, activism, and protest of the Communist Party, which split from the Socialist Party in the United States in 1919.
- Knights of Labor History and Geography 1869-1899: This website provides a maps of the assemblies, gender and racial makeup, and occupations of the Knights of Labor.
- Labor and Radical Press History and Geography: This website provides maps of newspapers and periodicals that were used to fuel labor movements throughout U.S. History, including: Socialists, the IWW, and the Chicano Movement.
- Mapping IWW campaigns, strikes, arrests, persecution: This website provides maps of activities, strikes, and arrests for the International Workers of the World (IWW) or "Wobblies" - a radical Socialist labor union founded in Chicago.
- Socialist Party of America History and Geography: This website provides maps of the membership, political success, and publications of the American Socialist Party.
- National Child Labor Committee Collection: Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924. The NCLC photos are useful for the study of labor, reform movements, children, working class families, education, public health, urban and rural housing conditions, industrial and agricultural sites, and other aspects of urban and rural life in America in the early twentieth century.
- Unemployed Protests 1930s: This website provides a map of unemployed protests in the 1930s as reported in the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker.
LGBTQ+ History
- ACT UP Oral History Project: A collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York.
- African American AIDS History Project: A crowd-contributed archive of African American responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
- AIDS History Project: Collection of printed materials and oral histories from San Francisco community-based organizations.
- AIDS Legal Referral Panel Records: Records of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel, an organization that connects people with AIDS (PWA) and volunteer lawyers willing to donate time and expertise in order to assist them. It has been a significant resource for PWA's since its inception. Also Included in this collection is materials from the Women's AIDS Network. The AIDS Legal Referral Panel was founded in 1983 by attorneys Frederick Hertz, Steven Richter, Mark Senick, and Gary James Wood. It was originally a committee of the LGBT organization Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF).
- California Revealed from GLBT Historical Society: From the GLBT Historical Society: California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State.
- Deaf AIDS Center Collection: The Deaf AIDS Center was founded in 1986 by Darol Nance. The original team members included St. Benedict's Church, Deaf Service Network–-North, Interpreting Service at St. Benedict's, Father Ken Canedo, Father Tom Coughlin, Garet Stark, and other staff and volunteers. In the 1990s, the Deaf AIDS Center become part of the University of California, San Francisco, Center on Deafness. The collection documents the activities of the Deaf AIDS Center through albums of photographs and ephemera. The Center organized educational workshops and conferences, retreats, an annual memorial for those who died of AIDS, and quilt panel sewing bees for the NAMES Project.
- Digital Transgender Archive: Primary and secondary sources, articles, and learner guides for Transgender History.
- Lesbian Herstory Archives: Archive of materials about Lesbians in American history.
- LGBTQ History Digital Collaboratory: The hub acts as a growing resource for oral history practitioners and the public.
- LGBTQ+ Politics and Political Candidates Web Archive: Captures digital content related to LBGTQ+ political candidates and political issues and topics at various levels of government, with a focus on lesser-known local and state politics. This archive preserves a representative sample of what is being called "The Rainbow Wave," which refers to the previously unprecedented number of LGBTQ+ identified candidates openly running for office. These websites provide a record of individuals attempting historic firsts in American politics.
- LGBTQ+ Studies Web Archive: Collects and preserves online content which documents LGBTQ+ history, scholarship, and culture in the United States and around the world. Sites include domestic and international non-profit organizations, journalism and news external link, creative works and expressions, historical records, and more. Collection priorities include primary sources, first-hand accounts, coverage of significant events, and essential artifacts of cultural memory.
- Mapping the Gay Guides: This website uses Bob Damron Address Books - or the "Gay Guides" to explore LGBTQ+ life in the 1960s and beyond. The "Gay Guides" functioned much like the Green Books for African Americans, pointing out safe spaces in business, leisure, and travel.
- NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project: This website maps and documents the historical impact of over 300 important LGBTQ+ sites in New York City. Each site includes context, images, and other media (when possible) concerning the history of that site.
- O'Connor (Jeannie) AIDS Self-Portraits Collection: The collection consists of negatives, contact sheets, proof prints, Polaroid prints, and oversized prints of self-portraits made at several San Francisco Bay Area AIDS and HIV-positive care facilities. The subjects included people with AIDS and HIV, as well as staff members, volunteers, and their families
- Papers of Pauli Murray, 1827-1985: Photos, notes, correspondence, and other items from the collection of Pauli Murray.
- People vs. Owen Bathhouse Closure Litigation Records, 1984-1987: Court documents and other records related to the case People of the State of California, ex rel. George Agnost, et al. vs. Ima Jean Owen, et al. (Superior Court No. 830-321), aka People vs. Owen, filed October 10, 1984, by San Francisco City Attorney George Agnost and Director of Public Health Mervyn Silverman, in an effort to close fourteen bathhouses, sex clubs, bookstores, and adult movie theaters by claiming them to be a public nuisance, in response to the burgeoning AIDS epidemic.
- Queer Zine Archive: The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities.
- San Francisco LGBT General Subjects Ephemera Collection: From the GLBT Historical Society: The ephemera collection consists of a wide range of material, such as pamphlets, event programs, invitations, etc., related to LGBTQ communities in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Included in this digital collection are selections of ephemera related to HIV/AIDS.
- Survive AIDS (ACT UP Golden Gate): The collection contains minutes, correspondence, clippings files, and subject files produced by the Golden Gate chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (AUGG). Some material is from ACT UP San Francisco (AUSF). The collection also contains banners, posters, buttons and T-shirts for ACT UP actions and from different ACT UP chapters.
- Ueda (Marie) Papers: Photographs from Marie Ueda of gay events during the 1970's to 1990's. Photos of Harvey Milk, Pride Parades, White Night Riots, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, AIDS and other LGBT events.
Military History
- After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor: This collection contains oral histories from ordinary Americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- Compiled Military Service Records (pre-WWI): This page contains the compiled and digitized military service records of servicemen and women from conflicts such as: the American Revolution, the "Indian Wars," the War of 1812, the Mexican American War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War and Philippine-American War.
- Department of Defense Annual Reports (1948 to 1996) and Military Branch Budget Justification Books (1980 to 1996): This collection includes Justification Books from the U.S. military from 1948 to 1996. "J-Books" are prepared by government agencies as part of the Congressional budget approval process.
- Iraq War 2003 Web Archive: Included in the web archive of the Iraq War are U.S. government and foreign government sites as well as sites of public policy and political advocacy groups, educational organizations, religious organizations, support groups for military personnel, anti-war groups, plus some sites for children, and selected news sources. The archive was catalogued from March 2003 to June 2003 and December 2004 to July 2009.
- John J. Pershing Papers: The diaries, notebooks, and address books of John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948), U.S. army officer and commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
- Korean War Records: This collection contains service and casualty records for the Korean War.
- New Left and Antiwar Movement History and Geography: This website provides maps of the anti-war (Vietnam War) movement from 1960-1975.
- Rochambeau Map Collection: The Rochambeau Map Collection contains cartographic items used by Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), when he was commander in chief of the French expeditionary army (1780-82) during the American Revolution. The maps were from Rochambeau's personal collection, cover much of eastern North America, and date from 1717 to 1795.
- Rosie the Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral History: Over 250 interviews focusing on the World War II Home Front experience. Starting with over one hundred interviews focused on the home front experiences in the Bay Area, focusing on why people from different backgrounds came to the Bay Area, what they did when they arrived, and what they learned from the fluidity and flux of wartime life that affected decisions they made after the war ended.
- September 11, 2001 Documentary Project: The September 11, 2001 Documentary Project captures the reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93.
- September 11, 2001 Web Archive: The September 11, 2001 Web Archive preserves the web expressions of individuals, groups, the press and institutions in the United States and from around the world in the aftermath of the attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. The selected websites are comprised broadly of United States and non-United States government sites; press, corporate/business, portal, charity/civic, advocacy/interest, religious, school/educational, individual/volunteer, professional organizations sites; and others.
- Sol Feinstone Collection of the American Revolution: This collection contains primary correspondence and other writings to/from/about the "founding fathers" during the American Revolution.
- Ulysses S. Grant Papers: The papers of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), army officer and eighteenth president of the United States, contain approximately 50,000 items dating from 1819-1974, with the bulk falling in the period 1843-1885. They include general and family correspondence, speeches, writings, reports, messages, military records, financial and legal records, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and other papers. The collection relates to Grant's service in the Mexican War and Civil War, his pre-Civil War career, and his postwar service as U.S. secretary of war ad interim under President Andrew Johnson, his 1868 presidential campaign and two-term presidency, his unsuccessful 1880 presidential bid, and his extensive travels and financial difficulties.
- Veterans History Project: The Veterans History Project collects oral histories from conflicts spanning World War I to the Iraq War.
- Vietnam-Era Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action Database: The title of this collection is "Correlated and Uncorrelated Information Relating to Missing Americans in Southeast Asia." It consists of a database of more than 160,000 metadata records designed to assist researchers in searching and accessing original U.S. Government documents pertaining to U.S. unaccounted-for personnel from the Vietnam conflict.
- Vietnam War Records: This collection contains service and casualty records for the Vietnam War.
- The Virtual Vietnam Archive: The Virtual Vietnam Archive contains documents, photographs, oral histories, artifacts, moving images, sound recordings, and maps from the Vietnam War.
- African-American World War I Portal: This subject portal highlights records of Federal agencies and collections that relate to Black life during the World War I Era. The selected records contain information on various topics, which include work, military involvement, arts & intellectuals, racial violence and the Great Migration. It also includes records on several individuals, including Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Paul Robeson, Mary Church Terrell and Jack Johnson. This subject portal is not meant to be exhaustive, but to provide guidance to researchers interested in African Americans during the Great War years and their relation to the Federal government.
- World War I Records: The National Personnel Records Center maintains 20th century U.S. military and civilian personal data series. This includes many collections related to military service in World War I that are a part of the Archival Programs Division within the National Archives at St. Louis. Types of available records include Official Military Personnel Files (OMPFs) and Auxiliary records, which can include Pay Vouchers, Award Cards, Burial Files, Selective Service Records, Court-Martial Case Files, and more.
- World War II Records: The World War II records center contains collections related to draft records, civilian internment, casualties and missing persons, D-Day, refugees, service records (at the top), and more.
Native History
- American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection: This site provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics.
- California Language Archive: This archive contains digital recordings of various Indigenous language groups from what is now the state of California and surrounding areas.
- Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center: This digital repository contains records, images, documents, and other artifacts pertaining to the complex history of Carlisle Indian School.
- Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History: The Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History online provides access to typescripts of interviews (1967 -1972) conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective nations and tribes. Related are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living. Members of every tribe resident in Oklahoma were interviewed. The collection includes the original tapes on which the interviews were recorded, as well as microfiche copies of the typescripts.
- Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian: Edward Sheriff Curtis published The North American Indian between 1907 and 1930 with the intent to record traditional Native American cultures. The work comprises twenty volumes of narrative text and photogravure images. Each volume is accompanied by a portfolio of large photogravure plates.
- Ella Deloria Archive: This database contains documents pertaining to the Dakota Indians.
- First Nations Collection: The First Nations Collection of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives consists of documents, books, and articles relating to the indigenous peoples of this bioregion. We have begun to collect and mount materials about many tribes in southwestern Oregon and northern California. Some of these nations include the Coos, Hupa, Karuk, Klamath, Modoc, Takelma, Shasta, Siuslaw, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua, Yahooskin, and Yurok nations. In the future, we hope to expand the collection by continuing to add materials on these and other tribes whose homelands were in, or adjacent to, the Siskiyou-Cascade-Klamath bioregion.
- Fort Wayne Indian Agency Collection, 1801-1815: The Fort Wayne Indian Agency collection consists of a letterbook kept by Indian agents John Johnston and Benjamin Franklin Stickney; an English-to-Ottawa dictionary, likely written by Stickney; and a memorandum book kept by Johnston during his time at Fort Wayne, Indiana Territory.
- Great Britain Indian Department Collection, 1753-1795: Documents British interactions with Native Americans in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, with some material relating to South Carolina, Michigan, and Virginia. Official documents include passes for Native American travelers, speeches to and from Native American groups, copies of treaties, and reports and correspondence relative to diplomacy, peace efforts, and military affairs. Materials relay information on boundary disputes, prisoner exchanges, crimes committed against both American settlers and Native Americans, and Native American distress over land infringements.
- The Indian Sentinel, 1902-1962: The Indian Sentinel featured articles about Native Americans across the United States and their evangelization by the Catholic Church. Most were first-hand accounts by lifelong missionaries in the field that were often illustrated with photographs they had taken. Also featured are articles, essays, and letters by Native Americans, many of whom were students in Catholic schools
- The Indigenous Digital Archive: This set of collections from the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, New Mexico brings together archival documents, correspondence, records, and yearbooks detailing the U.S. government's boarding school policy in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Indigenous Digital Archive Treaties Explorer: This archive site contains Indigenous agreements and treaties, as well as maps that allow researchers to place Indigenous land agreements within the context of their local history.
- Invasion of America: This interactive website includes every Native American land cession between the formation of the Republic and 1887
- National Museum of the American Indian Collections: This set of collections contain photos, documents, religious artifacts, and other objects relating to Indigenous tribes in what is now the United States.
- Native American Language Dictionaries: The Cornell University Library offers access to 124 digitized Native American language dictionaries, as well as one modern Mohegan Language Dictionary (2006 edition).
- Native American Networks: This site provides map representations of Native American networks in the United States that correlate to the research in Justin Gage's book We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us.
- Utah American Indian Digital Archive: The Utah American Indian Digital Archive (UAIDA) is a gateway to the best resources regarding Utah’s Indian tribes. With articles, books, government documents, tribal documents, oral histories, photographs, and maps pertaining to the Northwestern Shoshone, Goshute, Paiute, Utah Navajo, White Mesa, and Ute Indians, this unique archive captures the complicated history of Utah’s tribes from multiple perspectives.
- Walking Purchase Collection: This collection includes documents, maps, ledgers, and other sources connected to the Pennsylvania Walking Purchase of 1737.
Women's and Gender History
- Alice Marshall Women's History Collection: Literary, graphic, and manuscript materials dealing with the issues and individuals that comprised women's history from the 15th century to the early 1980s.
- Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection: More than 1,200 books, objects, correspondence, periodicals, lobbying materials, postcards, and more.
- Arabella Chapman Project: Two photo albums assembled by an African American woman and her family in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
- Black Women Oral History Project: The Black Women Oral History Project interviewed 72 African American women between 1976 and 1981.
- Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: The papers of suffragist, political strategist, and pacifist Carrie Lane Chapman Catt (1859-1947) span the years 1848-1950, with the bulk of the material dating from 1890 to 1920...The collection reflects Catt's steadfast dedication to two major ideals--the rights of women, particularly the right to vote, and world peace.
- Chicago Women's Liberation Union: CWLU was formed in 1969 and played a leading role in the women’s liberation movement in Chicago during the 1970s.
- Chicana Por Mi Raza: The online digital repository currently contains approximately 7,000 available digital records and over 500 interview clips focused on the experience of Chicanas.
- Clara Barton Papers: he papers of nurse, educator, philanthropist, and lecturer Clara Barton (1821-1912). Spanning the years 1805-1958, with the bulk dating from 1861 to 1912, the collection contains correspondence, diaries and journals, reports, addresses, legal and financial papers, organizational records, lectures, writings, scrapbooks, biographical material, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers. They relate primarily to Barton's work providing relief services during the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War in Europe, her founding in 1881 and subsequent leadership of the American National Red Cross, and her establishment in 1905 of the National First Aid Association of America.
- College Women: Documents the history of women in Higher Education.
- Digital Witchcraft Collection: Part of Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell’s Witchcraft Collection contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft, primarily in Europe.
- Discovering American Women's History Online: This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project: This collection includes publications of Eleanor Roosevelt that span from her involvement in foreign policy to domestic politics and personal interactions with individual Americans.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: The papers of suffragist, reformer, and feminist theorist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) cover the years 1814 to 1946, with most of the material concentrated between 1840 and 1902. The collection contains correspondence, speeches, articles, drafts of books, scrapbooks, and printed matter relating to Stanton and the woman's rights movement. Documented are her efforts on behalf of women's legal status and women's suffrage, the abolition of slavery, rights for African Americans following the Civil War, temperance, and other nineteenth-century social reform movements.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Letters and Portraits: This collection includes correspondence, writing, and photos of writer Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- Her Hat Was in the Ring: This project currently identifies 4,783 U. S. women candidates who campaigned for elective office between 1850 and 1920. Find biographical information for each woman, information about her campaigns, party affiliation, photographs, and lists of selected resources.
- Mary Church Terrell Papers: The papers of educator, lecturer, suffragist, and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954). Spanning the years 1851 to 1962, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1886-1954, the collection contains diaries, correspondence, printed matter, clippings, and speeches and writings, primarily focusing on Terrell's career as an advocate of women's rights and equal treatment of African Americans.
- Mill Girls in Nineteenth Century Print: This exhibition features items from newspaper and periodical publications, ranging from labor magazines such as the Man to literary monthlies such as Harper’s. Featuring selections both by and about the mill girls, from approximately 1834 to 1870, the exhibition highlights the culture and working conditions of the mills and the actions the women took to better their lives through self-advocacy.
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection: The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection is a library of nearly 800 books and pamphlets documenting the suffrage campaign that were collected between 1890 and 1938 by members of NAWSA.
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: The records of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) span the years from 1839 to 1961 but are most numerous for the period 1890 to 1930. These records reflect NAWSA's multifaceted history, including the activities of precursor organizations involved in the abolition and women's rights movements, state and federal campaigns for women's suffrage, the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and international women's suffrage organizing.
- Oral Histories of Berkeley Women: This set of oral histories is taken from women at UC Berkeley who were students, professors, activists, community organizers, artists, and more (and often more than one of these categories). The interview histories begin as early as the class of 1895.
- Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project: This collection includes diaries, letters, court records, maps, and other documents pertaining to the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming: This collection includes transcribed letters from the Salem Witch Trials as part of an exhibit from the Peabody Essex Museum.
- Schlesinger Library Digitized Collections: Schlesinger Library has a robust digitization program that makes manuscript collections, books, periodicals, and photographs available to researchers across the globe. In the past ten years, the Library has digitized 1,140,672 pages of material. From the papers of public intellectual Charlotte Perkins Gilman to the research files of feminist artist Judy Chicago, the library’s digital collections span two centuries of women’s history.
- Susan B. Anthony Papers: The papers of reformer and suffragist Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) span the period 1846-1934 with the bulk of the material dating from 1846 to 1906. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, a daybook, scrapbooks, speeches, and miscellaneous items. Donated by her niece, Lucy E. Anthony, the papers relate to Susan B. Anthony's interests in abolition and women's education, her campaign for women's property rights and suffrage in New York, and her work with the National Woman Suffrage Association
- Tradeswomen Archives Project Collection: This collection includes photographs and documents from the Tradeswomen Archives Project, which helps document the growth of the number of women working in construction and other non-traditional fields in Southern California, nationally, and around the world. The Project comprises both traditional physical archives, which are housed at CSU Dominguez Hills, and a digital archive consisting of virtual donations received through a web portal.
- Woman Suffrage History and Geography 1838-1920: This website provides maps of the National Women's Party campaigns and strategy from 1912-1922. Note: this website does not include substantial information concerning the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
- Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture: Manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting various aspects of the Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music: Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music includes over 200 pieces of sheet music spanning the years 1838-1923, over half of which highlight women's emerging voices and suffrage efforts; the collection includes published rally songs and songsters written and compiled by notable composers and suffragists, as well as music manuscripts submitted for copyright deposit by everyday citizens.
- Women Veterans Historical Project: The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP), established at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in 1998, documents the contributions of women in the military and related service organizations since World War I.
- Women Working, 1800-1930: This collection contains thousands of items pertaining to women's working lives from 1800 to the Great Depression.
Miscellaneous American History
- Ad*Access Project (1911-1955): Images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers & magazines
- Advertising History: This page links to databases containing advertisements from various time periods and locales.
- Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition Collection at Princeton University: The digitized items in the Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition Collection are from the Alcoholism and Addiction Studies Collection, as well as from various collections in the Brown University Library — broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets and government publications. The digitized pamphlets were published by various groups leading up to prohibition, during the prohibition era, and ending with the 21st amendment in 1933, which repealed the 18th amendment from 1919 prohibiting the manufacturing, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors.
- The American Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919: Digital encyclopedia with thousands of documents related to the influence epidemic.
- American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: This collection includes prison newspapers published over an over 200 year span. It includes periodicals from prisons of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.
- CIA CREST Archive: Since 2000, CIA has installed and maintained an electronic full-text searchable system named CREST (the CIA Records Search Tool). The CREST system is the publicly accessible repository of the subset of CIA records declassified in electronic format. Over 11 million pages have been released in electronic format and reside on the CREST database.
- CSPAN Video Library: Archive of CSPAN videos from 1987-2017.
- Digital Commonwealth: This site provides access to photographs, manuscripts, books, audio recordings, and other materials of historical interest that have been digitized and made available by members of Digital Commonwealth, a statewide consortium of libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies from across Massachusetts.
- Founders Online: The digitized papers of the seven "major shapers" of the United States: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.
- Freedom Archives: The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings as well as print materials dating primarily from the late-1960s to the mid-90s. These collections chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements for liberation and social justice.
- Geography of the Post: This website provides a digitized, interactive map of the US Post Office as it existed in the 19th century West.
- Jewish Atlantic World: This website contains collections of artifacts that give insight into the lives of early Jewish American colonists and their lives in comparison to Protestant and Catholic colonists.
- Lantern: Digital archive of the Media History Digital Library (MHDL) which digitizes collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access.
- Lapidus Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution: Collection that charts the definition and re-definiton of rights and liberties endemic to Western political traditions. The main focus is texts and documents relating to the American Revolution, its run-up dating back to the Commonwealth men, and coming down to documents of the early Federal government.
- National Security Archive: Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents ("the world's largest nongovernmental collection" according to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets.
- Pox Americana: This interactive website provides a resource where researchers can identify individual cases of smallpox during the outbreak of the 1770s, based on the research of historian Elizabeth Fenn.
- Virtual Jamestown: Primary sources from Jamestown's colonial past.
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