Social History

Links

African American Collections

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/afam.htm

This collection draws upon church minute meetings, extension bulletins, personal papers, photographs, and oral histories to document the history of blacks in Alabama. Some documents may be viewed online.

American Jewish Archives

http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/index.html

The Jacob Rader Marcus Center at Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, Ohio documents Jewish life in the United States. It includes manuscripts, photographs, tapes, microfilm, and genealogical materials.

American Life Histories

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940, deposited in the Library of Congress Manuscripts Division. The collection can be viewed online.

Archives of Women in Science and Engineering

http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html

Includes personal papers of women scientists and engineers and the records of related organizations, held at Iowa State University.

Black Archives of Mid-America

http://www.blackarchives.org/

Documents African-Americans in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Oklahoma, including diaries, newspapers, records and oral histories. In Kansas City, Missouri.

Florida Atlantic University Judaica Sound Archives

http://faujsa.fau.edu/

Dedicated to rescuing, preserving and sharing Jewish voices and music from the past. Search the archives and listen to their recordings here.

Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts

http://jnul.huji.ac.il/imhm/

Microfilm copies of 90% of known Hebrew manuscripts, held in Jerusalem.

International Institute of Social History

http://www.iisg.nl/

Based in the Netherlands, it is one of the world's largest research centres in the field of social history. Services, collections, online catalogue.

National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/

A collection of anthropological materials, including manuscripts, field notes, photographs, correspondence, maps, sound recordings, film and video, dating to 1846, held at the National Museum of Natural History.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scm/marb.html

Documenting people of African descent around the world, concentrating on the Americas and the Caribbean. Includes manuscripts, sheet music and rare books, located in New York City.

Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/

A center for scholarly research on labor history and radical political movements.

Texas Women's University: The Woman's Collections

http://www.twu.edu/library/wom/wm_index.htm

Includes manuscripts, photographs, and periodicals on the history of American women, as well as the University Archives covering women's education in Texas, and an international cookbook collection.

The American Jewish Historical Society Archives

http://www.ajhs.org/reference/archives.cfm

About 1,000 collections of personal papers and institutional records related to Jewish life in the Americas.

The Amistad Research Center

http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/

Art and manuscripts charting African-American history and race rlations, located at Tulane University. Includes a digital photograph collection.

The Education and Research Institute

http://education-research.org/

Washington-based organization with an archive of formerly top-secret FBI files obtained via FOIA. List of holdings. Searchable finding aid for the 26,000+ page Silvermaster file.

Victoria Women's Movement Archives

http://gateway.uvic.ca/archives/featured_collections/vwma/

Collection documenting the history of women's movement groups in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.