Searchable full-image of the Chicago Defender (1909-2010), Chicago Tribune (1849-1999), Los Angeles Times (1881-2000), St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-2003), New York Times (1851-2020), Wall Street Journal (1889-2012) and the Washington Post (1877-2007).
Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
Provides access to scholarly journals in the arts and sciences.
Specifically contains access to Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, Complement, Ecology & Botany and General Science Collections.
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The single most comprehensive source of treaties and other international agreements to which the United States has become a party. In addition, includes law and law-related periodicals.
Also includes a number of treaty guides and indexes, including Treaties in Force. Date Coverage: 1925-date Maximum Users: Unlimited Truncation: Truncation * Wildcard ?
o This includes records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s. Materials include pamphlets, newsletters, leaflets, buttons, posters, T-shirts, photographs, and audio and video recordings of interviews.
o AMP offers an online, impressive database of films, videos, and other audio-visual materials concerning Africa as well as education services about African media. The AMP is a project from Michigan State University's African Studies Center:
JSTOR has gathered a number of archival resources for the study of southern Africa, from divestment pamphlets to oral history interviews. These collections include material related not just to South Africa but southern Africa in general: Namibia, Lesotho, etc
o This site includes the two major research archives at the University, namely the Historical Papers Research Archive (HPRA), and the South African History Archive (SAHA). In addition, it incorporates our partner institution, the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Museum & Learning Centre, and the projects AFRAPIX and MEDU. This multi-institutional setup allows for searching across these institution's online finding aids and searchable digital items.
This clippings collection was built up by the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town beginning in the mid-1970s, in order to track developments in SA during apartheid. Daily English-language press cuttings were filed and this archive has preserved events that would have remained unrecorded in other ways
A collaborative project between MATRIX and Michigan State University, AODL links to different sites and provides an array of materials, including documents, interview material, documents, and video footage.
The Cooperative Africana Materials Program (CAMP) has developed a huge collection of African newspapers & missionary documents from the 19th and 20th centuries, in addition to other ephermera, non-U.S. dissertations on Africa, etc
o This library has digitized 5,000 of the rarest original maps focused on Africa, covering a time span of 500 years. The complete scope covers all regions and scales in 8 different languages.
Non-partisan project that provides survey data about the social, political, and economic climate of many African countries, particularly southern, eastern, and western Africa.
Descriptions of all links in this box were written by Dr. Merve Fejzula in 2023.
o This presents first-hand accounts of this important political movement. Interviews with South African activists, raw video footage documenting mass resistance and police repression, historical documents, rare photographs, and original narratives are included, and you can browse them here, many of which are recorded as video, so you get the added audiovisual benefit.
o The Inanda Seminary is an independent, girls' secondary school situated in Inanda township near Durban, South Africa. Between October 2008 and June 2010, Meghan Healy of Harvard University conducted interviews with these affiliates (students, teachers, etc.). Interviews were in English and one-on-one, except where otherwise specified.
o CVET in Cape Town is building a digital archive of videos taken in South Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The raw footage documents anti-apartheid demonstrations, speeches, mass funerals, celebrations, and interviews with activists. Videos capture the activism of trade unions, students and political organizations, including the activities of the United Democratic Front.
This site has collected transcripts of South African political figures talking with O'Malley about the transition of South Africa from apartheid to democracy. Padraig O'Malley collected these interviews for over a decade 1985-1986, so they track the late days of apartheid and the transition to democracy.
Descriptions of all inks in this box were written by Dr. Merve Fejzula in 2023.
