Primary Sources - U.S. History Digital Collections

Gathers over 50,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemeral items from radical movements (both left- and right-of-centre) in the United States and globally from the late nineteenth century to the present.

An online archive preserving prints, posters, buttons, T-shirts, photographs, audio-video recordings, and other materials documenting U.S. activist support for African peoples’ struggles against colonialism, apartheid, and injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s.

Broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets, and government publications on temperance and prohibition movements in the United States.

A collection of links to her papers, lecture notes, correspondence, and digitized materials documenting her work as an author, feminist thinker, and social reformer.

A virtual library, exhibits, and educational materials that trace how cultural values, laws, policies, and identities have shaped the experiences of people with disabilities across time.

Presents and interprets primary-source materials from the Haymarket Affair, organizing them in a dramatic-structure framework to explore labor and protest history in Chicago.

Manuscripts, correspondence, pamphlets, and government documents that trace the life, activism, and political influence of anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman from the 1890s to the 1940s.

Dull-text access to one of the oldest continuously published LGBT newspapers in the United States, documenting local and national news, activism, and community life from Rochester, New York, beginning in 1971.

Photographs, letters, oral histories, and essays that record the experiences and activism of the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez during the 1960s and 1970s.

Fifty interviews with students, faculty, journalists, and lawyers who participated in or witnessed the 1964 protests, documenting their experiences, motivations, and the broader impact of the movement on campus life and civil activism.

Trial transcripts, broadsides, wood engravings, photographs, artifacts, and related manuscripts related to the 1886 bombing, trials, and executions.

Materials on anarchism, anti-colonialist movements, antiwar and pacifist movements, atheism and free thought, civil liberties and civil rights, ecology, labor and workers’ rights, feminism, LGBTQ movements, prisons and prisoners, the New Left, the Spanish Civil War, and youth and student protest.

Thousands of photos, documents, websites, audio recordings and videos from the global Occupy Movement (since 2011), documenting occupations, protests and public actions across cities worldwide to challenge economic inequality and corporate power.

Curates links to major civil rights collections with oral histories, photographs, newspapers, and archival databases to help researchers find and access primary materials on SNCC and the broader movement.

Offers curated primary sources (posters, political cartoons, photographs, speeches, and campaign materials) along with brief context on the Anti-Saloon League, saloons, industry, and the 1920s.

Features manifestos, speeches, essays, photographs, and other documents from the U.S. Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, highlighting feminist activism, print culture, and responses to key events such as the Miss America pageant protests.