Digital Archives and Collections

Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives

Digital collection. Resources and programs on the history and legacy of the Abraham Lincoln Brigades.

Behind the Veil Oral History Project

Digital collection. Oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed

Digital collection. A comprehensive online reference guide to African American history.

Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 Exhibition

Digital collection. Digital photo collection of the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912.

Catonsville Nine Website | Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History

Catonsville Nine Files

Digital collection. Features documents, photos, and audio and video accounts about the Catonsville Nine who burned Vietnam war draft files.

Civil Rights Movement Veterans

Digital collection. Resources on the Southern Freedom Movement compiled by those who lived it. Includes a bibliography, timelines, photos, primary source documents, and lists of speakers.

Digital collection. A repository for primary sources and collection of essays about the origins, activities, and influence of the 19th-century Colored Conventions Movement that advocated for Black civil and human rights.

Creative Resistance

Digital collection. A Pinterest-style poster board providing a stream of activist art.

Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement: Oral Histories and Archives

Digital collection. More than 100 oral histories with leaders and shapers of the disability rights and independent living movement.

Freedmen and Southern Society Project

Digital collection. Documents that help explain how Black people traversed the bloody ground from slavery to freedom between the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 and the beginning of Reconstruction in 1867.

The Freedmen’s Bureau Online

Digital collection. Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedman and Abandoned Lands, including new and unpublished records that document the formerly enslaved, freedpersons and their descendants.

Thomas Jefferson Advertisement Runaway Slave | Zinn Education Project

Freedom on the Move: Rediscovering the Stories of Self-Liberating People

Digital collection. Crowdsourcing project that provides access to information, through thousands of print advertisements, about freedom-seekers and their would-be enslavers in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Freedom Summer 1964 Collection

Digital collection. Extensive collection on the Civil Rights Movement and the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964.

IDA Treaties Explorer

Digital collection. View digitized historic treaties between Indigenous tribes and the U.S. government alongside key historic works that provide context to the agreements made and the histories of shared lands.

In Their Own Voice: Activists Tell the History of the Civil Rights Movement

Digital collection. The Library of Congress has launched an online collection of oral history interviews with Civil Rights Movement veterans.

Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Online Archive

Digital collection. Firsthand accounts and primary sources of the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.

Kids in Birmingham 1963

Digital collection. A resource for the stories of people who were children in Birmingham in 1963.

Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery

Digital collection. This website publishes thousands of “Information Wanted” advertisements taken out by people freed from slavery who are searching for family members who had been sold apart.

Minneapolis Truckers Make History

Digital collection. Information and resources on the 1934 truckers strikes in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

National Visionary Leadership Project

Digital collection. Oral history interviews with hundreds of Africans Americans of note.

On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance

Digital collection. Collections as data and machine learning project examining Jim Crow and racially-based legislation signed into law in North Carolina between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement.

Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects

Digital collection. Features 11 projects on labor and civil rights movements in the Pacific Northwest with oral histories, primary documents, and more.

Roudanez: History and Legacy

Digital collection. The work of Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez, founder of the first Black daily newspaper in the U.S., the New Orleans Tribune, with articles, excerpts, videos, and a timeline.

Sandino Rebellion: A Documentary History

Digital collection. Over 3,300 documents from the Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua, 1927-1934.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Digital collection. Center for the study and promotion of the histories and cultures of peoples of African descent.