Non-fiction writings by major American black leaders from before the American Revolution to present. Essays, speeches, and articles. Coverage dates: 1750 - 2011
Government information, ebooks, and primary sources from a variety of places, including Google, the Internet Archive, and libraries around the world. Coverage dates: 1850 - present
Images, videos, and print primary source materials documenting global social, political, and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. Emphases include rock and roll, counterculture, peace, and protest movements, but topics are wide-ranging. Coverage dates: 1950 - 1975
Primary and secondary sources for research and teaching; including an interactive map, scholarly essays, tutorials, a visual sources gallery, chronology, and bibliography. Coverage dates: 1490 - 2007
Primary source showing the NAACP's history and achievements. Includes board minutes, speeches at annual conference, legal files, and campaigns for equality in education, housing, voting rights and much more. Coverage dates: 1909-1970
These multimedia sources will contain audio and visual material you can use.
Audio music from America's past including Native Americans, immigrants, slaves, pioneers, civil rights, politics, Prohibition, Revolutionary and Civil Wars, anti-war protests and more. Coverage dates: Current
A neat feature of this database is that you can search by historical event. If you need a song from a particular time period or event like the Civil War, the Revolution, the Industrial Age, the Gold Rush, etc. it's easy to find!
Historical documentary videos for eras 1500 - 1999, from PBS, Documentary Educational Resources, BullFrog Films, the History Channel, and others, with original newsreels from 1929 - 1967. Coverage dates: 1894 - present
Videos on multiple subjects from Films for the Humanities and Sciences, PBS, History Channel, National Geographic, TED, global television networks, and more. Embedding, linking, and interactive transcripts are available. Coverage dates: 1903 - present
Academic videos from BroadwayHD, Milestone Films, Sony Pictures Classics, and more. Subcollections include art & design, health sciences, history, literature & language, social sciences, science & engineering, history, and performing arts (dance, music, and theatre). Coverage dates: 1898 - present
Chronicle of the history and culture of African American music in text, scores, and images. Covers blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights, slave, minstrelsy, gospel and other forms of black American musical expression. Coverage dates: Current
