Digital Archives and Collections

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed

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

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.

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.

New York City Civil Rights History Project

Digital history of educational activism in New York City through collections of archival documents, photographs, videos, oral history snippets, and more.

Counter Histories

Digital Collection. Produced by John T. Edge and the Southern Foodways Alliance; directed by Kate Medley.
Five short films that document the civil disobedience staged at segregated lunch counters in the 1950s and 60s.

Who Built America?

Digital collection. A project by the American Social History Project (ASHP) that aims to revitalize interest in history by challenging traditional ways of learning about the past, focusing on the working men and women who shaped U.S. history.

Remembering 1882: Fighting for Civil Rights in the Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act

Digital collection. Primary documents, historical background, and more on the Chinese Exclusion Act and the history of Chinese American struggles for civil rights.

Tracked in America

Digital collection. Explores the historical context and stories of individuals who have been targets of U.S. government surveillance during the 20th century.

Visualizing Palestine

Digital collection. Provides graphic storytelling that can help students see Palestinian reality in new ways.

Kids in Birmingham 1963

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

Black Teacher Archive

Digital collection. Intellectual, political, and cultural contributions of Black educators during the Jim Crow era through the Civil Rights era.

Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement

Digital collection. Invites you to see the history of U.S. immigration enforcement not as a series of disconnected events, but as a pattern.

Minneapolis Truckers Make History

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

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.

The Costs of War

Digital collection. Publishes public-facing research about the broad consequences of U.S. military operations and spending, including their domestic effects, and the ongoing costs of the U.S. post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond.

American Revolution: Haudenosaunee Perseverance

Digital collection. In this lesson offered by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, students examine the challenges faced by the Haudenosaunee resulting from the American Revolution and their acts of perseverance in response.

Digital Transgender Archive

Digital collection. This archive increases the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.

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