Africa Commons is a platform for discovering African historical and cultural materials held by organizations around the world. It searches across over 250,000 documents from over 2,100 collections and over 600 organizations, including libraries, museums, and archives, and then it links outward to the web repositories where the documents are located. Material types include books, magazines, newspapers, historical periodicals, government documents, manuscripts, letters, diaries, posters, photographs, ephemera, art, music, videos, oral histories, and more.
Alternate Name(s):Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, Part 1 (1912-1990)
Archive of the ACLU focusing on civil rights, civil liberties, labor rights, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court in the twentieth century.
Essential primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This expansive collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.
300 immersive, interactive, and virtual-reality (VR) experiences for education in mental health, with over 150 exclusive, originally created, licensed, and commissioned experiences.
More than 30 million pages of curated, high quality policy reports, briefs, analyses, working papers, and datasets from thousands of policy organizations.
Alternate Name(s):Part 1: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia in the Twentieth Century
Supports scholars and students answering questions on philosophical, social, political, and economic ideologies as well as on contemporary issues surrounding gender, sexuality, race, religion, civil rights, universal suffrage, and much more.
Mental health streaming video library of clinical demonstrations, live sessions, nonverbal observation, and in-depth commentaries. Search by keyword or browse by approach, therapeutic issue, expert, or population.
Alternate Name(s):Surveys and Papers from the Amistad Research Center, 1943-1970
Speeches, reports, surveys, and analyses produced by the Race Relations Department and Institute at Fisk University covering three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights.
Alternate Name(s):Module II: Research Collections from The Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections
Explores changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender identities and sexual behaviors from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Investigating the breadth and complexity of human sexual understanding through the work of leading sexologists, sex researchers, organizations and personal accounts.
4.5 million pages of documents from across the Indian subcontinent from 1700 to 1953, originally collected by the South Asian Research Foundation (SARF). It’s the largest collection of books, journals and documents from the region, covering India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.
A rich history of women's experiences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries spanning multiple geographic regions and languages, providing a variety of perspectives on women's experiences and cultural impact.