Explores protest movements, revolutions, and civil wars that have transformed societies and human experience from the 18th century through the present.
Revolutions, protests, resistance and social movements from the 18th century through the 21st century, documented through personal papers, organizations, government documents, journals, reports, monographs, images, video, and speeches.
Primary sources documenting American radical groups; covers internal organization, personnel, and movements to change American government and society through political, social, cultural, and economic issues.
Books, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemera covering a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, economic, and cultural issues and movements in the US and the world. Collection from Michigan State University.
Oral histories (with interview transcripts) and digital photographs of people who participated in the civil rights movement. From the Library of Congress.
Interdisciplinary focus on disability scholarship, including primary sources, supporting materials, video, and archives. Mass media and activism are covered.
Primary documents and visual materials to "help expand knowledge and understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities in the United States."
Essays, letters, speeches, photographs, and other historical documents from the Emma Goldman Papers, plus finding aids and links to other resources. Goldman (1869-1940) was a major figure in the history of radical and feminist movements in the U.S.
Primary sources documenting women's movements and women activists in the US, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include women and antislavery, women's suffrage, the Feminist movement, Equal Rights movement, and women's role in Civil Rights .
Collection of open access alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals. Publications produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
Primary sources, including writings and publications, of African American activists involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865
Conference proceedings, organization reports, publications, and websites of women's non-governmental organizations. Also includes letters, diaries, and memoirs of women active internationally since the mid-nineteenth century, as well as photographs and videos of major events and activists in the history of women’s international social movements.
Covers over thirty border areas worldwide, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others. Historical background covered through text, video, and images
Comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes across the world, from 1900 to 2010. Includes primary and secondary source materials.
Brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.
Documents on activism in the US supporting the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice, from the 1950s through the 1990s.