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Provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions. It includes descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide,
including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Museum of the Moving Image, the British Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, Northeast Historic Film, and many more.
Primary source collection of historical documents that include: Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984; Confederate Newspapers: A Collection from Florida Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama and more.
Mountain People: Life and culture in Appalachia; America in Protest: Record of Anti-Vietnam War organizations, We Were Prepared for the possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961, American Relocation Camp Newspapers, Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons, 1936-1945, Jewish Underground Resistance, Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress, Holocaust and Record of Concentration Camp Trials, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Beyond the Daughters of Bilitis, Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis and more...
Database maintained at Middle Tennessee University that "provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States."
Provides Internet access to fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs related to southern history, literature, and culture.
This site, sponsored by George Washington University, provides access to many articles, columns, letters, and speeches written by Eleanor Roosevelt that shed light on some major 20th century events.
An major figure in feminism and American Radicalism who was an advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality, unionization, pacifism and socialism.
Research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Includes city directories, 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules, U.S. Indian Census Rolls, Agricultural and Industrial Rolls and more
"Making of America (MoA) 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."
Provides access to millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Find primary sources to use in school projects, academic research, family history research, and more.
One of the collections from "Documenting the American South" provided by the University of NC at Chapel Hill. It consists of transcripts and audio-recordings of 500 oral history interviews on topics such as civil rights, women's issues, and politics.
This center in Duke University's Library "acquires, preserves and makes available...published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present."
Records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, primary source for the study American history and the U.S. judicial system.
An oral history project from the Washington Press Club Foundation, this site provides access to nearly 60 interviews of women who were prominent in journalism since the 1920s.
Established at UNCG, the Women Veterans Historical Project documents the female experience in the armed forces through correspondence, diaries, photographs, published materials, oral histories, uniforms and other memorabilia.