Primary source documents dating from 1490 to the near present from across the Atlantic world relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition, and social justice.

Unique set of primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865.

Primary source material (interviews and statistics, educational pamphlets, administrative correspondence, photographs, speeches) on the Civil Rights Movement, segregation, discrimination and racial theory in America during three pivotal decades of the twentieth century (1928-1976).

With an extensive scope of content focused on political extremism and radical thought, this archive covers a broad assortment of both far-right and radical left political groups. It offers a diverse mixture of materials, including periodicals, campaign propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera, which allow researchers to explore unorthodox social and political movements.

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An online digital library of documents and other primary sources that chronicles the independence movements of southern African nations.

With a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France, the collection includes digitized primary source documents, including personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera.

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A collection of documents generated by the UK Foreign and Colonial Offices in countries and regions of Africa. Covers 1834 - 1966.

Provides primary source material from indigenous cultures within former colonial & commonwealth territories.

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Full-text access to primary source materials and newspapers from 18th, 19th, and early 20th century America. The collection includes: letters, advertisements, editorials, sketches, county records, complete runs of important periodicals, military newsletters, public health documents, and much more. Titles and collections of interest include: The Pennsylvania Gazette, the Virginia Gazette, The South Carolina Gazette, Godey's Lady Book, The North Star, and a large collections of Native American (1700s-1900s) and African American Newspapers (1800s-1900s). View full list of collections

Primary sources from the 15th-21st centuries, including the social sciences, humanities, global history, popular culture, history of media, gender and sexuality, trade history, borders and migrations, and war and conflict.

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This digital collection contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera published in America from 1652-1900, all full-text searchable.

Encompasses more than 17,500 works of prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through World War I.

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Provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes both primary and secondary materials.

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Fully searchable, digitized archival collections having to do with American history. Carleton has collections available in these topic areas: American Indians and the American West; American Politics and Society; Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle; International Relations and Military Conflicts; Latinx History; Revolutionary War and Early America; Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War; and Women's Studies. Browse full contents.

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Search across thousands of digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums. This tool provides descriptive information about each resource and a link back to the full item in its institutions' digital collection.

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An index of archival finding aids and collection descriptions from archives, libraries, and museums. Does not include the archival material itself, but helps reveal what material would be available at the archives.