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Black in Appalachia: Community History Digital Archive
The Black Community History Project digital archive contains digital materials related to African American history in Eastern Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. The Archive is a project of the Black in Appalachia a non-profit research organization that highlights the history and contributions of African Americans.
History Vault provides primary source materials from digitized archival collections. Content includes correspondence, government records, organization papers, speeches, and other documents. This database contains 67 modules, 23 million digitalized pages, and a date coverage from 1636 to 2009.
Readex provides primary resources collections I the areas of culture, literature, and history. Americana collections includes a rich collection of African American, Hispanic, and Women Studies books, correspondence, diaries, documents, periodicals, newspapers, realia, and speeches.
Archives Unbound strength is the representation of multidiscipline subject clusters including African American Studies; American Indian Studies; Asian Studies; Holocaust Studies; LGBT Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Middle East Studies; and Women’s Studies. These digital collections are comprised of historical documents which allows access to primary resources for scholars and students.
Adam Matthew Digital collaborates with archives, libraries, and research institutions to provide access to primary source databases and curated collections for the humanities and social sciences. Databases includes African American Communities, Apartheid South Africa, 1948 – 1980, Confidential Print, Gender Identity and Social Change, Popular Culture in Britain, and America, 1950-1975, Race Relations in America, Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, and Women in the National Archives.
Database archive focuses on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and North Carolina African American communities. Resource contains a diverse collection of primary source materials including art, documents, oral histories, community case studies, essays, images, realia, and video. African American life, history, and culture is distinctively represented.
Europa World database provides political, economic, and statistical information on countries, territories, regional and global organizations. Data from the Europa World Yearbook and Regional Surveys of the World are included in the database.
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive
HistoryMakers is an online African American video oral history archive. The database contains full-text and video interviews with distinguished members of the African American community and contributors to American society. The collection includes interviews of President Barack Obama, General Colin L. Powell, attorney Marian Wright Edelman, and artist Leon Stull, Marvel Comics graphic artist. Database functions includes captioned video playback, video clip creation, and searchable transcripts.
History Vault provides primary source materials from digitized archival collections. Content includes correspondence, government records, organization papers, speeches, and other documents.
Making of the Modern World is a collection of primary sources that cover the history of Western capitalism and neocolonialism. Database covers the rise of the modern labor movement, the evolving status of slavery, the condition and making of the working class, colonization, the Atlantic world, Latin American/Caribbean studies, social history, gender, and the economic theories that championed and challenged capitalism in the nineteenth century.
Umbra: Search African American History
Umbra is an online search tool that brings together digitized materials from United States archives, libraries, and repositories. The free digitalized content provides wider access to Africana history, culture, and life. Umbra is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Libraries, Penumbra Theatre Company, Institute of Museum and Library Services and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
This site provides access to research and publications in African studies. It also provides information on researchers and organizations that focus on Africa. It is hosted by the African Studies Center at Leiden University.
Digital Library for International Research (DLIR)
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers and the American Institute for Yemeni Studies deliver important bibliographic and full-text primary and secondary source information from member centers research collections. Digital resources include: The DLIR Archive, he African Language Materials Archive (ALMA), and The Local Archives and Libraries Directory.