Social Sciences Online Teaching Resources

This multidisciplinary resource includes full-text, peer-reviewed journals, periodicals and magazines. Also included are more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press, including footage from 1930-present. This database offers indexing and abstracts for over 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings dating as far back as 1865, with the majority of titles in searchable PDF format.

The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-book Collection (ACLS HEB) is a collection of 5,700+ scholarly books from 125+ publishers. Michigan Publishing licenses included books, including investing in unique and otherwise hard to access backlist content.

This fully-searchable collection of 280+ historical newspapers from across the United States published by and for African Americans is a one-of-a-kind record of African American history and culture. Each newspaper issue in this collection has been fully digitized and is fully searchable, including all articles, obituaries, advertisements, editorials, and illustrations. Some of the major titles in the collection include The Colored Citizen (KS), Arkansas State Press, Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York Age, L’Union (LA), Northern Star and Freeman’s Advocate (NY), Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, and The Appeal (MN). The oldest newspaper dates to 1842. Try the new Text Explorer to visualize data using methods such as term clustering, frequencies, trends, and more.

This collection of papers spans the majority of the twentieth century, from 1912 to 1990. Scholars and students in twentieth-century American social history and politics will find this archive of special interest because of its focus on civil rights, civil liberties, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court. Subjects include: the first “Red Scare” following the Russian Revolution of 1917, debates in the 1920s on immigration, the American Birth Control League, lynchings in the 1930s, debates on aliens and immigrants in the years immediately preceding the U.S. entry into the Second World War, and the ACLU’s involvement in two of the mid-century’s most important issues: the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. The files hold the letters of union organizers, labor activists, and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Documents include bills, briefs, correspondence, court documents, legal case files, memorandums, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, scrapbooks, and telegrams.

The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records is a comprehensive online database that provides access to primary source materials documenting the African American civil rights movement. This collection, part of ProQuest's History Vault, offers digitized archival documents including correspondence, government records, organization papers, and speeches. It covers a wide range of topics such as the military service of African Americans, civil rights during various presidential administrations, FBI files on civil rights leaders and organizations, and records from federal agencies like the Department of Justice and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The database spans from 1901 to 1991, offering researchers, students, and scholars valuable insights into the struggle for racial equality in America. With its extensive coverage of federal records, this resource provides a unique perspective on how the U.S. government addressed and responded to civil rights issues throughout the 20th century. Major collections in this module include the FBI Files on Martin Luther King Jr.; Centers of the Southern Struggle, an exceptional collection of FBI Files covering five of the most pivotal arenas of the civil rights struggle of the 1960s: Montgomery, Albany, St. Augustine, Selma, and Memphis; and records from the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations, detailing the interaction between civil rights leaders and organizations and the highest levels of the federal government.

This is a landmark electronic 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. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts. The ideas of over 1,000 authors present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be Black in America. Browse primary sources from the Vietnam War, the US Civil Rights Movement, the US Civil War, the Watergate Scandal, Reconstruction, World Wars I & II, and many landmark and historical events. This collection contains the work of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, as well as the complete run of the Black Panther newspaper (1966-1980), and a wide selection of abolitionists' writings from the nineteenth century.

This collection provides access to the 19th and 20th century poetry and fiction from the Caribbean region, including Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Suriname, and Guyane. This literary connection, combined with the tales of survival, exile, resistance, endurance, and emigration to other parts of the Americas, makes for a body of work that is essential for the study of the Caribbean and the Black Diaspora. It includes rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages.

Caribbean Search is a comprehensive multidisciplinary database focused on the Caribbean region. It provides access to a wide range of English-language articles pertinent to the countries and people of the Caribbean. The database contains over 730 Caribbean-focused scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports, and reference books, making it the largest collection of full-text content available for the region. Caribbean Search covers various subject areas, including history, culture, politics, economics, and social issues. It serves as an invaluable resource for researchers, students, and scholars interested in Caribbean studies, offering a wealth of information from both academic and popular sources. The database is regularly updated, ensuring users have access to current research and information about the Caribbean. With its extensive coverage and focus on full-text content, Caribbean Search is an essential tool for conducting comprehensive literature searches and gaining insights into the diverse aspects of Caribbean life and scholarship.

Produced by the Ethnic Studies Library at the University of California, Berkeley, this bibliographic index covers a wide range of materials focused on the Mexican-American and Chicano experience, as well as the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants from 1992 onwards. Content gives researchers targeted access to materials that explore the broad dimensions of class, race, and gender within the Chicano and Latino American experience. The database pulls content from journals, newspapers, books, book chapters, and other resources. Subject covered include art, bilingual education, education, health, labor, language, literature, mental health, and politics.

ProQuest History Vault consists of manuscript and archival collections digitized in partnership and from a wide variety of archival institutions. Major collection areas in History Vault focus on the Black Freedom Movement of the 20th Century, Southern Life and Slavery, Women's Rights, International Relations, American Politics and Society with a strong focus on the 20th Century, and labor unions, workers and radical politics in the 20th Century. On the topic of civil rights and Black Freedom, History Vault contains records of four of the most important civil rights organizations of the 1950s and 1960s: NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, and CORE. History Vault's collections on Slavery and Southern plantations candidly document the realities of slavery at the most immediate grassroots level in Southern society and provide some of the most revealing documentation in existence on the functioning of the slave system. Many of the collections in History Vault were originally available in microfilm from the University Publications of America (UPA) research collections and others come from the University Microfilms International (UMI) research collections with additional collections scanned from the original documents.

This resource contains 56 historical Latin American newspapers from North, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean, spanning 1805 to 1922. Publications are provided in either Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Content includes all articles, illustrations, and advertisements, and may be searched at once or browsed by country, time period, language, or publication title. This collection was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) using materials from newspaper repositories from around the world.

The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files. The result is a comprehensive representation of historical events (from the 17th century to the present) as told by the individuals who lived through them. The database is a resource for those interested in the history of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Peoples. Browse topics such as politics, the armed forces, law, health, economics, sociology, relationships, religion, domestic life, battles and war, communities, agriculture, treaties, land holdings, and much more.

This collection of reference works focuses on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. The core content includes African American National Biography; Dictionary of African Biography; Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; Black Women in America, Second Edition; The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought; and The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography.

This article database includes citations and summaries of academic journal articles, books, periodicals, and newspapers covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, ideology, community relations, ethnic relations, radicalism, economics, cultural identity, and pressure groups.

This archive includes 4,285 pages in 22 manuscripts, sourced from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Holdings range from May 1961 to November 1976.  Included are surveillance reports, chronologies, witness statements, and more. These materials provide unique (and in some cases recently declassified) insight into the Freedom Rides, the Kennedy administration, and the segregated South.