Specialized Databases
- Archives Unbound
Suite of digitized archival collections including FBI files for the American Indian Movement (1968-1979) ; Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement: The Papers of Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford); Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement; and more...
Black Thought & Culture"Collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history."
- Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
Brings together collections of original and rare documents from the Newberry Library’s Edward E. Ayer Collection, spanning the sixteenth to mid-twentieth century.
- Indigenous Peoples of North America This link opens in a new windowContains a tremendous amount of material from the US National Archives, including Bureau of Indian Affairs records and correspondence; papers of the Society of American Indians; records of several Missions; selections from the set Iroquois Indians: A Documentary History; a large number of Indigenous newspapers; and more..
- Declassified documents reference system-US This link opens in a new windowWeb site offers a full-text searchable archive of U.S. documents from a range of political sources which have recently been declassified. Viewable in both HTML and digital facsimile versions.