The #blacklivesmatter Web Archives contains news articles, blogs, social media, and other websites relating to Ferguson, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, protests and demonstrations around the county, and seeks to document the movement as it grows and evolves.

The African Activist Archives preserves and makes available online the records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice, 1950s-1990s

This collection contains oral histories of migrants from Africa and the African Diaspora (drawn largely from the Caribbean, Central America, and South America)

A selection of recorded oral history interviews chronicling African American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s

Includes documents which have contributed to the shaping of African American history. These documents are a starting point for additional research and discussions that help further our understanding of the history of people of African ancestry in the United States

Includes materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black women in the Women's Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women's rights, voting rights, and civic activism, c. 1850-1969

Contains documents and images which chronicle events surrounding Supreme Court cases, busing and school integration efforts in northern urban areas, school integration in the Ann Arbor Public School District, and recent re-segregation trends in American schools

Civil Rights Greensboro provides access to archival resources documenting the modern civil rights era in Greensboro, North Carolina, from the 1940s to the early 1980s, through historical materials such as correspondence, reports, speeches, photographs, newspaper clippings, and oral histories held at five cultural heritage institutions in North Carolina

Include oral histories, fliers, letters, governmental records, news articles, images, diary entries, and other primary sources relating to the Civil Rights Movement

Includes primary sources and exhibits housed by the Civil Rights Digital Library

Crossroads to Freedom is a digital archive that contains materials documenting various aspects of Memphis history, primarily the Civil Rights era. According to its website, "Crossroads to Freedom connects the world with Memphis history through an archive of documents, newspapers, images and oral histories

Includes, maps, information about people, and other data points

The Digital Library on American Slavery is an expanding resource compiling various independent online collections focused upon race and slavery in the American South, made searchable through a single, simple interface

Includes primary sources relating to the Duluth lynchings, 1920

Includes FBI records collected on Elijah Muhammad

Includes FBI Records on the Freedom Riders

Includes the FBI records held on Langston Hughes

Includes FBI records on the original knights of the KKK

Includes FBI records on the Mississippi Burning Case

Includes FBI records on white hate groups

Includes the Fredrick Douglass Papers held at the Library of Congress

The Urban Art Mapping George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art database includes examples of street art from around the world that have emerged in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd as part of an ongoing movement demanding social justice and equality

Includes maps, images, and texts relating to African American migration throughout the United States

The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists is a compact but highly complex, multi-layered compilation of documents, sound recordings, and visual images

Consists of sound recordings of oral history interviews by Kim Lacy Rogers from 1978-1998 with persons involved in desegregation and civil rights in New Orleans

Includes primary source documents from the King Center Library and Archives

Contains a wide selection of drawings, essays, and other work by African Free School student

Includes autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920

Includes oral histories on the Civil Rights Movement in the American South

This project highlights the newspapers, posters, broadsides, pamphlets, fliers, and other printed ephemera produced by student and community groups, leading civil rights organizations, and individuals, which documented a revolutionary era

Includes transcripts and audio of speeches given by social and political Black leaders of the 20th and 21st centuries

The Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division collects, preserves, and makes available for research purposes rare, unique, and primary materials that document the history and culture of people of African descent throughout the world, with a concentration on the Americas and the Caribbean

This digital collection is comprised of correspondence, dating from 1839-1841, by abolitionists, pro-slavery advocates, governmental officials, and the Amistad Africans themselves, related to the development of efforts to provide legal assistance to the Africans. The resulting trials in the U.S. court system; the political interests on the part of the United States, Cuba, and Spain; and the personal experiences of the imprisoned Africans are detailed in these letters

Includes visual records (drawings, woodcuttings, postcards, etc.) recording the African slave trade and slave life in the early African diaspora both in the United States and internationally

The Slave Societies Digital Archive (formerly Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies), directed by Jane Landers and hosted at Vanderbilt University, preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and African-descended peoples in slave societies

The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases are the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world

Contains oral histories describing the activities and people involved in the Civil Rights Movement in the southern states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi

Includes primary sources relating to television news relating to the Civil Rights Movement

A libguide of digital collections relating to the transatlantic slave trade presented by the University of Pittsburgh Library System

Documents the musical heritage of the Treme neighborhood in New Orleans, including topics of jazz funerals, second lines, Mardi Gras, clubs, and other areas related to music and other aspects of Treme life

Includes educations and noncommercial radio programs from the 1950s and 1960s that offer historic testimonies, in interviews, speeches, and on-the-spot news reports, from Movement participants

Includes selected documents from the Northeastern University Archives centered around activism for equality and pride in Boston's Black, Latino, LGBTQ+, and feminist communities

Thousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, c. 1950-1989

The Buffalo Trace Oral History Project includes interviews with a diverse group of current and retired employees of the Buffalo Trace Distillery and its affiliated brands, whose positions range from warehouse foreman to master distiller to president and CEO of Buffalo Trace's parent company, Sazerac

Consists of interviews concerning the history of the Jim Beam distillery and how it has changed over the generations. Interviewees include James "Jim" Beam Noe, former Bardstown Mayor Dixie Ann Hibbs, and several Jim Beam employees

Kentucky Bourbon Tales Oral History Project, a partnership with the Kentucky Distillers' Association (KDA), is a multi-year effort by the Nunn Center in the UK Libraries to document the history of bourbon in the state, and features the stories of the master distillers and bourbon barons from iconic distilleries that participate in the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour, including Wild Turkey, Heaven Hill, Brown-Forman, Woodford Reserve, Bulleit, Maker's Mark, Four Roses and Jim Beam, as well as the new Michter's Distillery and Independent Stave Cooperage

Includes twenty years worth of the Canadian trade journal Canadian Printer and Publisher, documenting the history of the industry

Includes images from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries relating to the depiction of money, credit, and speculation

This collection includes documents from 36 corporations that operated in or around New York City, 1850-1960s

Over 3,300 advertising items and publications dating between 1850 and 1920

Includes digitized copies of the newsletter The Family Tree, which was published by Potlatch Forests, Inc. for their employees between 1936 and 1952

The Industry Documents Library is a digital archives of documents created by industries that influence public health, including tobacco, chemical, drug, food, and fossil fuels

Includes 154 digital images of baseball cards from the early 20th century, when tobacco, candy, and chewing gum companies printed trade cards or advertising cards to include with their products, c. 1909-1911

Includes approximately 600 advertising items and publications dating between 1850 and 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of the professionalized advertising industry in the United States

Includes approximately 247 patent medicine trade cards, c. 1870-1906

Includes more than 30,000 images of outdoor advertisements from five different source collections

Includes over 4420 items relating to women's impact on economic life in the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression

The Archive for Digital Art collects and documents digital art projects, often including videos and context

The Archives of American Art is the world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America

Includes over 200 histories of Chicago-based artists, architects, and designers

Broadside Ballads Online presents a digital collection of English printed ballad-sheets from between the 16th and 20th centuries, linked to other resources for the study of the English ballad tradition

A searchable collection of historic and contemporary landscape and garden images that include plans, engravings, paintings, and photographs

The Children's Poetry Archives includes recordings of children's poems read aloud

Includes digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world

A collection of street art images relating to Covid-19, produced around the world and over the course of time

Digital collections focused around art and design held at the Smithsonian Museum

The collections include photo archival images and documentation, book materials, and other digitized primary sources from the Frick Collection

The Urban Art Mapping George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art database includes examples of street art from around the world that have emerged in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd as part of an ongoing movement demanding social justice and equality

Includes digital collections of some of the artwork presented at the Hammer Museum

Includes nearly 500 works of classical literature, including commentaries, of English translation of mainly Greco-Roman, Chinese, and Persian works

Includes drawings, photographs, letters, and other materials relating to the career of Marcel Breuer, one of the most influential architects and furniture designers of the twentieth century

Includes digital scans and metadata of periodicals published between 1820 and 1922

The Plain Indians Ledger Art Project includes digitized images of Plains drawings on paper, 1860-1900

The Poetry Archive includes records of significant poets reading their work aloud

Includes digitized materials from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Documents the musical heritage of the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, a predominantly African American neighborhood since the early 19th century, including topics of jazz funerals, second lines, Mardi Gras, clubs, and other areas related to music and other aspects of Treme life

The Walt Whitman Archives endeavors to make Whitman's vast work freely and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers

Includes previously unpublished manuscript documents by, to, or about Alexander Hamilton

Hosted by the University of California - Santa Barbra, the American Presidency Project includes presidential records, messages, transcripts of presidential debates, statistics of elections, and White House Press Briefing transcripts

Yale Law School database of documents related to law, history, and diplomacy spanning from 4000 BCE to the 21st century

Contains documents and images which chronicle events surrounding Supreme Court cases, busing and school integration efforts in northern urban areas, school integration in the Ann Arbor Public School District, and recent re-segregation trends in American schools

The Compilation of Presidential Documents collection consists of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents and the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents which are the official publications of materials released by the White House Press Secretary

Includes famous presidential speeches hosted by the Miller Center, affiliated with the University of Virginia

Includes a collection of original essays, trial transcripts and exhibits, maps, images, and other materials relating to famous trials in world history, maintained by the University of Missouri, Kansas City Law School

Includes digitized copies of FBI files, documents, and media

Includes documentation relating to Harry S. Truman's presidency

Includes U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans, 1778-1883, and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans,1871-1970

The database contains lawsuits, cease & desist letters, subpoenas, and other legal threats directed at those who engage in online speech

Includes presidential campaign commercials, 1952-2020, maintained by the Museum of the Moving Image

Includes National Security Administration (NSA) documents and releases housed by the American Civil Rights Union (ACLU)

Includes tribal constitutions, codes, treatises, Solicitor’s Opinions, research guides, tribal uniform commercial code drafts, and links to relevant legal websites pertaining to Native American law

Includes oral histories of members of the U.S. House of Representatives

Includes papers related to Abraham Lincoln as part of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Includes digitized copies of papers of the U.S. War Department, 1784-1800, including some transcription

Includes presidential election cartoons that appeared in Harper's Weekly, Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, Vanity Fair, and other periodicals, 1860-1912

Includes transcriptions of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon White House Tapes

Includes a collection of Puerto Rican Civil Court documents, many from the late 19th century

Selected historic decisions of the US Supreme Court, predating regular release of Court decisions on the internet

This digital collection is comprised of correspondence, dating from 1839-1841, by abolitionists, pro-slavery advocates, governmental officials, and the Amistad Africans themselves, related to the development of efforts to provide legal assistance to the Africans. The resulting trials in the U.S. court system; the political interests on the part of the United States, Cuba, and Spain; and the personal experiences of the imprisoned Africans are detailed in these letters

Includes treaties between the United States and Native American tribes, 1778-1868

Searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1760

Includes declassified documents, FOIA requests, and audio-visual materials relating to William J. Clinton's presidency

Complete Collection of Peacekeepers' Situation Reports from Rwanda to UN Headquarters in New York — from the Mission's Inception in October 1993 through the End of the Genocide in July 1994

Documents relating to the Armenian Genocide , 1915-1919

Documents relating to the Armenian genocide during World War I

A compilation of primary source documents relating to German National Socialism and World War II

A compilation of primary source documents relating to the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina

A compilation of primary sources relating to the Holocaust

In 2013, the Visual History Archive expanded beyond the Holocaust for the first time, taking in 147 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. That set of atrocities claimed as many as one million lives over the course of about 100 days in 1994 when government-backed militias of ethnic Hutus went on a mass killing spree targeting the country’s next largest ethnic group, the Tutsis

Includes digital collections relating to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, pre-genocide history, and post-genocide reconstruction processes

A comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present

Includes maps relating to the Holocaust and World War II

The Harvard Law School Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT)

This listing provides links to some of the best internet portals and collections of primary documents. Note that a collection may contain materials for more than one subject area and may offer secondary material as well as primary

Includes transcripts from radio in Rwanda, 1993-1994

This section features sample documents relating to the genocide from U.S. and British archives. The documents are available both as images and as text.

Materials relating to war criminal trials

Includes primary documents relating to U.S. involvement in Rwanda

Includes primary source documents, selected testimonials, and other documentation relating to court cases conducted by the ICTR for crimes in Rwanda

The digital archives include the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names, with five million-plus records

A collection of materials from 50 institutions that documents the experiences and history of gender nonconforming and trans people, maintained at Northeastern University

Includes issues of the Empty Closet, one of the oldest continuously published LGBT papers in the United States, 1971-2015

These archives consist of the papers which relate to the work of the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM) in Jamaica, as well as documents the launch of the digital archives

Includes digital collections compiled by the GLBT Historical Society Museum & Archives

Includes archival footage of In the Life, a television news program and trailblazer in LGBTQ representation and equal rights advocacy

Includes videos of Just for the Record, a monthly program produced in New Orleans, 1987-1993, that covered both local and national topics of interest to the gay and lesbian community

Contains digitized copies of some of the 3,000 oral history cassettes in the Archives' Spoken Word Collection and 950 videotapes in the Video Collection

Includes a compilation of collections found in the New York Public Library that focus around LGBT experience, activism, and organization

Includes material held in the Southern California University Libraries related specifically to their LGBTQ+ collections

"A Queer History of PLU" follows the experiences of our queer PLU community members and three of their allies

Includes interviews and primary source documents from and about the LGBTQ+ community in Newark, NJ

Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) digitizes and makes available queer zines

An ongoing project through the University of Minnesota to capture oral histories from the transgender community

The posters in this collection document efforts to educate and inform people about topics relating to AIDS, 1982-present

Includes archival material and primary sources held at Harvard University's Center for the History of Medicine

A collection of images representing historically significant scientific instruments

Includes archival material and primary sources on diseases and epidemics worldwide

About 600 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States

National Library of Medicine’s free online archive of selected book, serial, archives and manuscripts, and film resources

Includes archival material and primary sources held at the New York Academy of Medicine

This is a collection of interviews concerning the opioid addiction crisis of Central and Eastern Kentucky

A collection of 247 patent medicine trade cards, c. 1870-1906

Includes video and transcripts of interviews conducted by members of the Latina/o community affected by COVID-19

Includes "man-on-the-street" interviews following the attack on Pearl Harbor

Includes a collection of declassified U.S. government documents on the atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific

This Web site explores Brooklyn during the Civil War by presenting primary source documents — photographs, letters, newspaper articles, illustrations, and more — that show what life was like during this period

Details of life in two communities---one Northern and one Southern---from the time of John Brown's raid through the Reconstruction

Civil War diaries and letters held at the University of Iowa

This online collection provides access to about 7,000 different views and portraits made during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and its immediate aftermath. From the Library of Congress

The pictures listed in this publication are in the Still Picture Branch of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

The Cold War International History Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War

A Continent Divided is committed to digitizing primary source materials drawn from the UT-Arlington Library's Special Collections, long recognized as one of the premier repositories on the 1846-1848 conflict

Documents relating to the U.S. decision to drop the atomic bomb

The Donovan Nuremberg Trials collection consists of nearly 150 bound volumes of Nuremberg trial transcripts and documents from the personal archives of General William J. Donovan (1883-1959)

The George and Frank C. Hirahara Collection is considered the largest private collection of photos depicting life in the Japanese American incarceration camp at Heart Mountain Wyoming

The Historic Government Publications from World War II contains 343 Informational pamphlets, government reports, instructions, regulations, declarations, speeches, and propaganda materials distributed by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) during the Second World War

Includes digitized material relating to Japanese American incarceration during World War II

Focusing on the Korean War, this collection includes 275 documents totaling 1151 pages, including photographs and government reports

Includes Korean War propaganda leaflets, which often include cartoons and anti-communist message

The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is a comprehensive program dedicated to documenting, preserving and disseminating the remembered past of persons affiliated with and affected by the Nevada Test Site during the era of Cold War nuclear testing

Includes trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers from the trials of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany

Includes a compilation of primary source documents relating to World War II

Features 68 motion pictures, produced between 1898 and 1901, of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution

Includes copies of Stars and Stripes, the American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919

Declassified documents relating to the Tet Offensive

In addition to images and military documents – such as muster rolls, generals’ orders, and supply requests – this collection also includes a significant amount of correspondence and journals related to the Civil War and Reconstruction Era

Includes oral histories and digitized materials related to the Vietnam War

Materials relating to the War of 1812 maintained by Indiana University

Includes documents relating to the Vietnam War

The WVHP’s strengths are oral histories and materials from veterans of World War II, but it also includes the stories and materials of women who served in World War I, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War era, Desert Storm, the Gulf Wars, and the War on Terror

Includes newspaper clippings related to World War I, 1914-1926

This digital collection provides a sampling of UW-Madison's World War I Special Collection

A compilation of documents relating to World War II housed by the Avalon Project

Includes more than 300 World War II-era posters issued by various U.S. government agencies

A compilation of World War I Postcards held at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Includes posters from World War I and World War II

Includes broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets and government publications relating to alcohol, temperance, and prohibition

Includes documents, images, maps, and other archival material related to Northwest Coast and Plateau cultures

American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration

Includes oral histories focused on the experience of migration, dislocation, and community formation as immigrants, asylum-seekers, refugees, and other newcomers themselves understood it

A selection of recorded oral history interviews chronicling African American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s

Includes images, documents, and oral histories relating to the Bracero Program

Illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials

Includes archival material and primary sources relating to African, Basque, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, Mexican, Russian, and Native Americans in the Columbia River Basin

Includes oral histories and other materials from about about Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II

The Digital Library on American Slavery is an expanding resource compiling various independent online collections focused upon race and slavery in the American South, made searchable through a single, simple interface

Includes archival materials and primary sources held at the Disability History Museum Library

Includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs related to southern history, literature, and culture

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

Feeding America is an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century

The First Nations Collection of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives consists of documents, books, and articles relating to the indigenous peoples of parts of Oregon and California

Interviews and transcripts concerning the Great Depression

Includes video, images, oral histories, and other documentation concerning Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Documenting voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression

The Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains Collection includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs,1874-1949.

Includes maps, images, and texts relating to African American migration throughout the United States

Includes more than 13,000 pages of documents, over 1,900 photographs, and about 180 sound files together in one searchable collection that documents the Korean American community during the period of resistance to Japanese rule in Korea and reveal the organizational and private experience of Koreans in America between 1903 and 1965

Includes archival material, primarily photographs and documents, meant to capture the history of Latino and Chicana/o people and culture in Southern California

Includes a collection of era photographs, documents, and oral history interviews concerning the Bracero Program

The primary source documents on this page highlight pivotal moments in the course of American history or government

Includes autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920

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

Includes primary source documents relating to media, entertainment, sports, marketing, politics, and other things relating to pop culture

Includes transcripts and audio of speeches given by social and political Black leaders of the 20th and 21st centuries

The Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division collects, preserves, and makes available for research purposes rare, unique, and primary materials that document the history and culture of people of African descent throughout the world, with a concentration on the Americas and the Caribbean

The Archive contains more than 150,000 digital items, a tally that includes more than 40,000 emails and other electronic communications, more than 40,000 first-hand stories, and more than 15,000 digital images documenting September 11th

This digital collection is comprised of correspondence, dating from 1839-1841, by abolitionists, pro-slavery advocates, governmental officials, and the Amistad Africans themselves, related to the development of efforts to provide legal assistance to the Africans. The resulting trials in the U.S. court system; the political interests on the part of the United States, Cuba, and Spain; and the personal experiences of the imprisoned Africans are detailed in these letters

Includes visual records (drawings, woodcuttings, postcards, etc.) recording the African slave trade and slave life in the early African diaspora both in the United States and internationally

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries millions of Africans were forced to become enslaved people in the American colonies. This guide provides access to Library of Congress digitized primary sources, links to related websites, and a print bibliography

The Slave Societies Digital Archive (formerly Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies), directed by Jane Landers and hosted at Vanderbilt University, preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and African-descended peoples in slave societies

The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases are the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world

The Archive's collection is broad and interdisciplinary in documenting the social, cultural, religious, political, and economic life of Americans of Southeast Asian origin

Includes cartoons, propaganda, industry records, and other archival materials related to temperance and prohibition

A libguide of digital collections relating to the transatlantic slave trade presented by the University of Pittsburgh Library System

Includes oral histories of Vietnamese Americans with the primary goal of capturing first-generation stories

Includes oral histories focused on Latina/o experience in the United States

Includes a variety of material meant to preserve and document the Filipino American experience

The diaries in this digital collection were written by British and American women who documented their travels to places around the globe, including India, the West Indies, countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as around the United States

Includes over 4420 items relating to women's impact on economic life in the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression