Chinese Newspaper collection covering more than twenty cities in the mainland China from the collapse of the Qing Dynasty to the founding of the Peoples Republic of China.
Contains rare and short-lived 19th century newspapers exposing the socially taboo aspects of urban life in America, including scandal, brothels, blackmail, gambling, and more.
With over 500 California newspapers, the collection supports a diverse range of research needs across an array of academic disciplines. Oldest issue 1983.
Historical California newspapers from 1846-present, including the first CA newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily CA newspaper, the Daily Alta California.
Songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, pioneers, and cowboys. Songs of Civil Rights, politics, Prohibition, war, protests, and more.
Contains over 600k pages of content including oral histories, campaign materials, propaganda, government records, and ephemera on the political viewpoints from extremist movements.
Draws from 2 million records of the ACLU, focusing on civil rights, race, gender, and more. Covers the years from before the ACLU’s official founding in 1920 through the 20th century.
Documents LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century into the present. Contains archival content, including letters, periodicals, speeches, interviews, and ephemera.
Documents from the U.S. and Britain covering a wide range of popular culture topics such as Women's Liberation, the Civil Rights Movement, Youth culture, Music, Fashion, and more.
Five million pages sourced from books, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, court records, correspondence, manuscripts, and maps all on the global history of slavery.
Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals from the mid-20th century.
Collection exploring tales of frontier life, Indigenous Peoples, vigilantes and outlaws. From the Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago.
This collection focuses on issues at the intersection of gender and class, from the late eighteenth century to the era of suffrage in the early twentieth century, through a transnational perspective.
Covering foreign perspectives of American racial issues in the mid-20th century, records were derived from the archives of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1,000+ fully searchable printed works critical for insight into African-American culture and life from the beginning of Jim Crow to World War I and beyond.
Series 1-3 covers the following dates: 1704-1877 Arrival in America through Reconstruction.1878-1975: Jim Crow through the Civil Rights Movement.1976-Today: Black History Month to Today.
Legal/Government Documents resource covering more than 190 million pages and 295,000 titles of current and historical documents in a fully searchable, image-based format.
