Inclusive Collections

Contains material from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection, one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world. The collection contains 130,000 volumes, over one million manuscript pages, maps, atlases, photographs, drawings and paintings. It covers not only American Indian history, but archaeology, voyages, exploration and accounts of early America, cartography development, Philippine, Hawaiian, Central and South American history.

This collection includes the extensive FBI documentation on the evolution of the American Indian Movement (AIM) as an organization of social protest. In addition, there is documentation on the 1973 Wounded Knee Stand-off. Informant reports and materials collected by FBI provide unparalleled insight into the motives, actions, and leadership of AIM and the development of Native American radicalism.

American Indian Newspapers aims to present a diverse and robust collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016.

American Indians and the American West contains several collections focusing on the interaction between American Indians and the U.S. government in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Notable collections in this module from the 19th Century focus on Indian Removal from 1832-1840, the U.S. Army and American Indians in the years from the 1850s-1890s, including detailed coverage of Indian Wars.

This database contains the records of the U.S. Army Continental Commands. The primary source documents in this collection cover military campaigns against tribes across the U.S. from the Seminole in Florida to the Sioux and Cheyenne across the Great Plains. Included are detailed accounts of tribal negotiations, treaty drafts, transcripts of conversations with tribal chiefs, and more.

Country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel and shape note singing.

Explore the fact and the fiction of westward expansion in America from the early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Browse a wide range of rare and original documents including printed books, journals, historic maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, artwork and more.

Lists articles, books and other publications about the native peoples of North America published from the sixteenth century to the present. Lists all titles from the Ethnographic Bibliography of North America. Includes book reviews.

Anglophone contact with Indigenous peoples across the globe is a central theme within the Frontier Life collection. While some documents reveal the earliest encounters with Indigenous peoples, other documents also capture their diverse characteristics, cultures, and their unstable contact with European settlers.

Comprising the papers of the Panton, Leslie & Co., a trading firm, this collection is the most complete ethnographic collection available for the study of the American Indians of the Southeast. More than 8,000 legal, political and diplomatic documents recording the company's operations for over half a century have been selected and organized for this collection.

While treaties between Indigenous peoples and the United States affect virtually every area in the USA, there is as yet no official list of all the treaties. The US National Archives holds 374 of the treaties, where they are known as the Ratified Indian Treaties. Here you can view them with key historic works that provide context to the agreements made and the histories of our shared lands.

Comprehensive coverage of the Indigenous experience in America from 1690 to today with more than 16 million primary documents from diverse sources and perspectives. Includes a fully searchable online resource, updated daily.

Indigenous Peoples: North America provides a robust, diverse, informative source that will enhance research and increase understanding of the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada.

Sources for legal history: federal & state court reports, U.S. Statutes at Large, federal administrative decisions, the English Reports and other foreign and international sources and treatises, plus British Empire, military law and Native Americans.

This collection comprises two sets of documents that helped the response to 40 years of failed Native American policies. The first is the report entitled The Problem of Indian Administration, better known as the Meriam Report. The second comprises the 41-part report to the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs detailing the conditions of life and the effects of policies and programs enacted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on Native Americans.

This collection of primary source archives includes political, religious, legal, medical, commercial, and military perspectives of Native American history. Users are provided a diverse collection of primary source materials dating from 1800 through the late 20th century.

Until the Bureau of Indian Affairs was established in 1824, Indian affairs were mostly under the direct control of the Secretary of War. This collection consists of the letters received by and sent to the War Department, including correspondence from Indian superintendents and agents, factors of trading posts, Territorial and State governors, military commanders, Indians, missionaries, treaty and other commissioners, Treasury Department officials, and persons having commercial dealings with the War Department.

The database includes comprehensive coverage of the Asian American experience from the early 18th century to the present day. There are more than 35 million primary documents from diverse sources and perspectives, both historical and contemporary. Includes a fully searchable online resource, updated daily.

Lists journal articles and book chapters on all subjects related to Asia. Most articles are in western languages. Includes book reviews.

Explore an extensive range of archival material connected to the trading and cultural relationships that emerged between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. Manuscript sources, rare printed texts, visual images, objects and maps document this fascinating history.

Spanning three centuries (c1750-1929), this resource makes available for the first time extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. The resource is full-text searchable. In addition, the collection features a host of secondary resources, including scholarly essays, an interactive chronology, and mini guides.

With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give an incredible insight into the changes in China during this period. Sources are from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London: 1793-1980.

The China Press was initiated by Chinese and founded by Americans. It adopted the American editing style and was the first known English newspaper published in modern China by professional journalists instead of businessmen or missionaries.

Part of Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound, the records offered here provide invaluable information on social conditions in Korea and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century.

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Roosevelt administration decided that for reasons of “military necessity” the government would evacuate all persons of Japanese heritage from the West Coast states. The Records of the War Relocation Authority document the day-to-day running of the 10 relocation camps from 1942-1946. Records include reports and correspondence on issues such as security, education, health, vocational training, agriculture, food, and family welfare.

World music from Smithsonian Folkways and other labels and from African and South Asian ethnomusicological collections.

Theatre from Alexander Street features performances of works by American, European, Asian, and other worldwide dramatists from the past several centuries. In addition to performances, Theatre also features dozens of documentaries and interviews about theatre, discussing the history of theatre, acting methods, pioneering dramatists and actors, and much more.

Issues of gender and class ignited nineteenth-century debate in the context of suffrage movements, culture, immigration, health and many other concerns. Using a wide array of primary source documents—serials, books, manuscripts, diaries, reports, and visuals—this collection focuses on issues at the intersection of gender and class from the late-eighteenth century to the era of suffrage in the early-twentieth century.

This resource offers perspectives on society, sexual identity, community building, and gender issues with collections from Canada, the United States, and Mexico. It presents social history with materials that cover activism and social justice issues, highlight disabilities in Queer society, offer information around alternative sexualities, document interactions between sexuality and religion, and represent diverse ethnic communities across North America.

The archive illuminates the experiences not just of the LGBTQ community as a whole, but of individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations, and geographical locations that constitute this community. Historical records of political and social organizations founded by LGBTQ individuals are featured, as well as publications by and for lesbians and gays, and extensive coverage of governmental responses to the AIDS crisis.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture examines diversity in underrepresented areas of the world such as southern Africa and Australia, highlighting cultural and social histories, struggles for rights and freedoms, explorations of sexuality, and organizations and key figures in LGBTQ history.

This collection like no other. It is made up of more than five thousand rare and unique books covering sex, sexuality, and gender issues across the sciences and humanities and throughout history. It is the variety of titles and subjects in this archive that make the research opportunities intriguing.

A database and bibliography of 14,000 short biographies of historical women printed in 1270 English-language books, primarily 1830-1940. Explore trends in versions of women's lives and the social networks formed by biographical collections. The Collective Biographies of Women was developed at the University of Virginia.

Defining Gender provides access to a vast body of original British source material that will enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective

Everyday Life & Women in America c.1800-1920 showcases unique primary source material for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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.

Archival runs of 26 of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Includes the pre-eminent US and UK titles – The Advocate and Gay Times, respectively. Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community.

This collection charts the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today.

Part of History Commons, LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture captures and preserves activist voices from the 1980s to today, with a special focus on content at risk of disappearing, especially in oppressive countries.

LGBT Life with Full Text is the definitive database for LGBT studies. It provides scholarly and popular LGBT publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBT thesaurus containing thousands of terms.

Searchable full text database of American and Canadian women's letters and diaries written from the Colonial period through 1950

This collection 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.

An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.

Much of history is one-sided, focusing mainly on the male perspective and leaving women's voices unheard. Bringing women’s stories to light, the Women’s Studies Archive connects archival collections concerning women’s history from across the globe and from a wide range of sources.

Find journal articles, books, conference proceedings, reports, theses & dissertations, documents and other materials on all aspects of women's studies.

This database offers consists of three distinct series of collections from the Schlesinger Library: voting rights, national politics, and reproductive rights.

This database offers archival materials from across the UK and Ireland for the study of the lives and experiences of lesser-known women in their own words. The documents enable study of perspectives on race, gender, class, disability, sexuality, ageing and more. Spanning a date range of 1600-1968, the resource offers avenues to explore the differing conditions in which women have lived in the UK and Ireland during the last four centuries.

Women and Social Movements, International is a collection of primary materials. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.

This database explores prominent themes in world history since 1820: conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality, as told through women’s voices. This highly-curated archive and database includes documents related to the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and United States Empires, and settler societies in the United States, New Zealand and Australia.

A resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Includes 108 document projects and archives with almost 4,300 documents and more than 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by more than 2,200 primary authors, book, film, website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.

A full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible. The range of genres and topics covered makes it a truly remarkable resource for teaching and research, providing an unparalleled view of women’s literate culture in the early modern period.

Writing by women from the Renaissance through the first half of the 19th century. A long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader.

This collection of primary source archives provides opportunities for an interdisciplinary examination of historical events related to gender and sexuality. Queer history and the Men’s Movement offer interesting perspectives on the struggle for equality and social justice. The social, political, and cultural contributions of women throughout history are on display in international women's periodicals dating from 1786 to the Women’s and Civil Rights movements.

With content from the largest national project ever to locate, preserve, and disseminate Latino-Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form, this database includes over 60,000 historical articles, hundreds of political and religious pamphlets and broadsides, and the complete texts of over 1,100 historical books of Hispanic literature and culture. Content approximately 80% Spanish, 20% English; indexed and searchable in both languages.

Focusing on the evolution of Hispanic civil rights, religious thought, and the growing presence of women writers from colonial times to 1960, this collection includes hundreds of rare and relevant books and tens of thousands of pages of newspaper and periodical content, and personal and organizational manuscripts – including rare anarchist newspapers – presented in their original form. Content approximately 80% Spanish, 20% English; indexed and searchable in both languages.

With nearly 70,000 records from more than 2,400 journals and other resources and selective indexing dating back to early 1900s, this bibliographic index covers a wide range of materials focused on the Mexican-American and Chicano experience, with broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants from 1992 onwards.

This collection consists of the Confidential Print for Central and South America and the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Topics covered include slavery and the slave trade, immigration, relations with indigenous peoples, wars and territorial disputes, the fall of the Brazilian monarchy, British business and financial interests, industrial development, the building of the Panama Canal, and the rise to power of populist rulers such as Perón in Argentina and Vargas in Brazil.

Primary-source collection of ca. 45,000 fully-searchable documents from the Casa de las Américas in Havana, documenting the culture and cultural relations of Revolutionary Cuba and countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Digitalia Film Library provides streaming access to hundreds of films and documentaries, primarily from Latin American and around the world.

Digitalia Hispanica is the most complete database of e-books and e-journals with the broadest access to high-quality content in Spanish. There are thousands of e-books from the most renowned Spanish and Latin American publishing houses, as well as relevant journals that cover all topics of interest.

This collection highlights the FBI's efforts to disrupt the activities of the largest of the Puerto Rican independence parties, Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, and compromise their effectiveness. In addition, these documents provide a documentary history and analysis of why independence was the second-largest political movement in the island (after support for commonwealth status).

The vast majority of the documents in this collection -- correspondence, annual reports, statistics, letters, litigation -- are copies from the Archivo General de Centroamérica and the Archivo Histórico Arquidiocesano “Francisco de Paula García Peláez” (formerly known as Archivo Eclesiástico de Guatemala) in Guatemala City. Colonial documents mainly come from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain.

Represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century. It is based on the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project.

This index provides over 275,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI currently provides over 60,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.

Comprehensive coverage of the experiences and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media from 2010 to the present. This database is continually updated to reflect the latest news in government, business, and arts—as well as the ongoing influence of Hispanic American businesses, politicians, musicians, athletes, and others.

Annotated list of selected new publications on social sciences and humanities concerning Latin America. Choose English, Spanish, or Portuguese interfaces.

From Mafia activities in Cuba to the Mexican Revolution, and from political instability in Latin America to foreign relations in Caribbean states, this collection of primary source archives provides a broad variety of resources for the study of the varied, rich culture and history of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Latin American History and Culture brings unified, cross-searchable access to millions of pages from websites and archives scattered across the internet—books, magazines, photographs, maps, letters, diaries, ephemera, videos, and audio files.

Latino Civil Rights During the Carter Administration gives rich insight into the efforts of the Executive Branch of U.S. government to reach out to the burgeoning Latino population during the last 2 years of the Carter Administration.

This database highlights the Chicano/a experience in the United States and a rich history and diversity of the community. The archive focuses on activists such as César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, and other leaders of the Chicano Movement, aka El Movimiento. It also highlights important organizations and movements, such as the United Farm Workers, efforts toward land reclamation, and student movements against discrimination in education.

This collection showcases two radio programs: the weekly Spanish-language Enfoque Nacional (1979-1988) and the Daily English-language Latin File (1988-1990), available for the first time in a searchable database as digitized audio with transcripts. They focus on Latinx issues related to politics, sociology, human rights, the arts and more with interviews of key figures and news reporting by a new generation of Latino/a journalists at the time.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin America History is a specialized resource with hundreds of articles covering a wide range of topics beginning in 1492 and before to current times. The articles are peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, while maintaining the rigorous standards of academic publishing.

Listen to audio recordings of prominent writers from Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, the Caribbean, and other regions with Luso-Hispanic heritage populations reading from their works at the Library of Congress. Historically known as the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape, this collection contains nearly 800 recordings of poets and prose writers participating in sessions at the Library of Congress and at other locations around Spain and Latin America.

Evidence-based reports and fact sheets in Spanish on all aspects of consumer health and wellness including first aid, infant/child care and illnesses, alternative medicine, aging and wellness.

This collection provides access to nearly 300 newspapers from across Latin America from the 19th and early 20th centuries.