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History Vault: NAACP Papers

Digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary sources with a focus on the Black Freedom Movement of the 20th Century, Southern Life and Slavery, Women's Rights, International Relations, American Politics and Society with a strong focus on labor unions, workers and radical politics in the 20th Century
HeinOnline
Image-based government document and legal research database. Coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials and scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase.
AM Explorer

Full text primary sources especially pertinent to American and world history, literature and culture. Spanning the 15th - 21st century. Digitized documents include: manuscripts and typescript letters, diaries, notebooks, journals, newspapers, art, illustrations, photographs, video and 360-degree objects.

Collections: 1980s Culture and Society; Africa and the New Imperialism; African American Communities; Age of Exploration; American in World War Two; American Committee on Africa; American History, 1493-1945; American West; Amnesty International Archives; Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1994; British Newsreels, 1911-1930; Broadcasting America; Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan, 1834-1922; Children's Literature and Culture; China, America and the Pacific; China: Culture and Society; China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980; Church Missionary Society Periodicals; Colonial America; Colonial Caribbean; Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966; Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969; Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969; Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961; Conflict in Indochina: Foreign Office Files for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia; Defining Gender; Early Modern England; East India Company; Eighteenth Century Drama; Eighteenth Century Journals; Empire Online; Ethnomusicology; Everyday Life & Women in America, c1800-1920; First World War Portal; Food and Drink in History; Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980; Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanstan, 1947-1980; Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952; Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1980; Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981; Frontier Life; Gender: Identity and Social Change; Global Commodities; Hindi Cinema; India, Raj and Empire; Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America; Indigenous Newspapers in North America; Interwar Culture; J Walter Thompson: Advertising America; Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954; Leisure Travel and Mass Culture; Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900; Literary Manuscripts Berg; Literary Manuscripts Leeds; Literary Print Culture, London Low Life; Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963; Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965; Mass Observation Online; Mass Observation Project; Medical Services and Warfare; Medieval Family Life; Medieval Travel Writing; Meije Japan; Mexico in History; Migration to New Worlds; Nineteenth Century Literary Society; Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700, Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975; Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900; Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain; Race Relations in America; Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape; Royal Shakespeare Company Archives; Service Newspapers of World War Two; Sex & Sexuality; Shakespeare in Performance; Shakespeare's Globe Archive; Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice; Socialism on Film; The Gilded Age and Progressive Era; The Grand Tour; The Nixon Years, 1969-1974; The Olympic Movement; The Transformation of Shopping; Trade Catalogues and the American Home; Trade in Early Modern London; Travel Writing, Spectable and World History; Victorian Popular Culture; Victorians on Film; Virginia Company Archives; Women in The National Archives; Women's Voices and Life Writing; World's Fairs
Archives Unbound
Digital collections covering a broad range of multi-disciplinary topics from the Middle Ages forward – from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Includes U.S. foreign policy; U.S. Civil Rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history.

Broad topic clusters include: African American studies; American Indian studies; Asian studies; British history; Holocaust studies; LGBT studies; Latin American and Caribbean studies; Middle East studies; political science; religious studies; and women’s studies.
Black Studies Center
Scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and more. It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), six Black historical newspapers, and the Black Literature Index.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (scholar's edition)
Digital library of high resolution images for instruction, study, and research in the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences. The images have been contributed by museums, scholarly collections, photo archives, and artists' estates. Pre-history-21st century.
Roper Center Public Opinion Archives (with iPOLL)
Archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented. 1930s-current

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
A selection of primary sources

Popular Literature

The Atlantic Magazine Archive
Searchable full text and images, including covers and advertisements, from the Atlantic Magazine. 1857-2014
Women's Magazine Archive
Full, digitized runs of women’s interest consumer magazines of interest for gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture. Dates range from the late-19th century through 2005.
Vogue Archive
Vogue (US edition) magazine of fashion and culture. From first issue in 1892-current

Government Documents

U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994
Reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives subjects include the armed forces, economics, education, agriculture, government, international affairs, law, science and technology, social issues. 15th Congress (1817)through 103rd Congress, 2nd session, 1994.
Congressional Publications
Information on the US Congress: access to abstracts and indexing for Hearings, Reports, Documents and Committee prints from 1970-present (there are links to HTML text from approximately the mid-1990s); bill tracking & profiles, bill text, members and committee coverage, the Daily Congressional Record and the Code of Federal Regulations and Federal Register, and political news. Formerly known as: Congressional Information Service (CIS)