Africa Commons is a collaborative project to preserve and disseminate African cultural materials. Tulanians have access to five modules: African History and Culture, a discovery tool to search for texts, images, maps, audio, and video across thousands of worldwide collections; West African Magazines; East African Newspapers, Magazines, and Films (from the archive of Kenyan journalist, Hilary Ng'weno); Southern African Films and Documentaries; and Black South African Magazines.
AODL provides free universal access to cultural heritage materials from and about African countries and communities. It brings together tens of thousands of digitized photographs, videos, archival documents, maps, interviews and oral histories in numerous African languages, many of which are contained in curated thematic galleries and teaching resources.
Digitized records of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) from the collection held at the Amistad Research Center. Contents span ACOA's foundation in 1953 through 1981, documenting anti-apartheid campaigns, African independence and decolonization, the Cold War and U.S. Foreign relations, activism and protests, and more.
Archives Unbound includes digitized manuscripts, printed books and periodicals, and government documents largely sourced from the U.S. National Archives and U.K. National Archives. Tulane has access to several collections focused on 20th-century Africa: German Colonies to League of Nations Mandates in Africa, 1910-1929; French Colonialism in Africa: From Algeria to Madagascar, 1910-1930; Italian Colonies in North Africa and Aggression in East Africa, 1930-1939; Political and Economic Consolidation of Portuguese Colonies in Africa, 1910-1929; Liberation Movement in Africa and African America; Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1918-1935; King and the People in Morocco, 1950-1959; and Global Missions and Theology.
Collections included are: - Actes Royaux Français, 1256-1794 (French Royal Acts, 1256-1794) - Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files - Alexander III and the Policy of "Russification," 1883-1886 - America in Protest: Records of Anti-Vietnam War Organizations, The Vietnam Veterans Against the War - American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism - Black Economic Empowerment: The National Negro Business League - City and Business Directories: Louisiana, 1805-1929 - Civil Rights and Social Activism in the South - James A. Dombrowski and the Southern Conference Educational Fund - Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 - Confederate Newspapers: A Collection from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama - Democracy in Turkey, 1950-1959: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files - East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963 - European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: French Colonialism in Africa: From Algeria to Madagascar, 1910-1930 - European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: German Colonies to League of Nations Mandates in Africa 1910-1929 - European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Italian Colonies in North Africa and Aggression in East Africa, 1930-1939 - European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Political and Economic Consolidation of Portuguese Colonies in Africa, 1910-1929 - Evangelism and the Syria-Lebanon Mission: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1869-1910 - FBI File: Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. - FBI File: Hollywood and J. Edgar Hoover: Communists in the Motion Picture Industry - Fannie Lou Hamer: Papers of a Civil Rights Activist, Political Activist, and Woman - Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s - Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920–1984 - Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents - Foreign Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944 - Global Missions and Theology - Holocaust and the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes - Intelligence Reports from the National Security Council's Vietnam Information Group, 1967-1975 - Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West's Response to Jewish Emigration - JFK and Foreign Affairs, 1961-1963 - James Meredith, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Integration of the University of Mississippi - Japan at War and Peace, 1930-1949: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Japan - Journaux de la Révolution de 1848 (Newspapers of the French Revolution 1848) - King and the People in Morocco, 1950-1959 - L'Affaire Dreyfus: son influence dans la création de la France moderne (The Dreyfus Affair in the Making of Modern France) - La France pendant la guerre 1939-1945: Résistance et journaux de Vichy (Voices from Wartime France 1939-1945: Clandestine Resistance and Vichy Newspapers) - La Guerra Civil Española - Liberation Movement in Africa and African America - Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1918-1935 - Mercure de France, 1672-1810 - National Security and FBI Surveillance Enemy Aliens - Northern Ireland: A Divided Community, 1921-1972 Cabinet Papers of the Stormont Administration - Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880 - Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement - Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis - Policing the Shanghai International Settlement, 1894-1945 - Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950 - Public Housing, Racial Policies, and Civil Rights: The Intergroup Relations Branch of the Federal Public Housing Administration, 1936-1963 - Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Enforcement of Federal Law in the South, 1871–1884 - Records of the Persian Gulf War - Republic of New Afrika - SUR, 1931-1992 - Testaments to the Holocaust. Documents and Rare Printed Materials from the Wiener Library, London - The Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955 - The Economy and War in the Third Reich, 1933-1944 - The Middle East Online: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970 - The Middle East Online: Iraq, 1914-1974 - The Savings and Loan Crisis: Loss of Public Trust and the Federal Bailout, 1989-1993 - The War on Poverty and the Office of Economic Opportunity: Administration of Antipoverty Programs and Civil Rights, 1964-1967 - Through the Camera Lens: The Moving Picture World and the Silent Cinema Era, 1907-1927 - Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China relations, 1989-1993 - U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950 - U.S. and Iraqi Relations: U.S. Technical Aid, 1950-1958 - War on Poverty Community Profiles: Southern States - War on Poverty: Office of Civil Rights, 1965–1968 - Witchcraft in Europe and America - Women's Issues and Their Advocacy Within the White House, 1974-1977 - Women, War and Society, 1914-1918
Over 250 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Nelson Mandela, Dambudzo Marechera, Christopher Okigbo, Okot p'Bitek and Tayeb Salih.
The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. These range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties. The documents in Confidential Print: Africa begin with coastal trading in the early nineteenth century and the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa. They then follow the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italy’s defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence. Together they cover the whole of the modern period of European colonisation of the continent from the British Government’s perspective.
This resource brings together a wide range of primary source materials for the study of European empire, its theories, practices and consequences, dating from the late fifteenth century onwards. The documents in this collection have been sourced from archives and libraries based in the UK, North America and Australia. The majority of documents are from a colonial and thus Western and Eurocentric perspective, and mainly relate to the history of the British Empire. Geographic coverage spans Africa, Australasia, Central America and the Caribbean, East Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, and South East Asia.
Multimedia collection that covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
Ethnographic audio and video recordings, notebooks, correspondence and related primary historical soruce material from the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive.
The open access digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Offers all types of media: print (monographs, periodicals and press) in image and text mode, manuscripts, sound recordings, graphic material, maps and plans. The gateway to digital collections in French.
The Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University is the largest separate Africana collection in the U.S. Its digitized collections include: 16th-Early 20th Century Maps of Africa; Africa Embracing Obama; E.H Duckworth Photograph Collection (Nigeria); Depictions of Africa in French Humour Magazines; Ifeoma Onyefulu: Photographs; Vernon McKay Photographs; Photographs of Zanzibar; Africana Posters; and the Winterton Collection of East African Photographs.
This database offers full page and article image scans with searchable full text of issues of Le Monde from 1944-2000. Select "Browse Issues" from the menu to peruse content by date.
Explore the archaeology, history and culture of Africa through its heritage sites and landscapes. Includes digitized maps, photographs, manuscripts, and printed texts. Formerly known as Aluka: African Cultural Heritage Sites & Landscapes.
Digitized 20th-century newspapers from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Most titles are Arabic-language, with some in French (Algeria, Morocco) and English (Iraq, Morocco).
Founded in 1981, the Daily Observer is Liberia’s best-known, independent, national newspaper. The Daily Observer is notable for its coverage of the modern history of Liberia—including the Liberian Civil War and through its current phase of development.
Comprising over 35,000 pages, the Daily Observer Digital Archive (DODA) is a comprehensive archive of this title—published in English.
Border and Migration Studies Online is a collection that explores and provides primary sources, scholarly studies, images, and video on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including the Congo.
East African Newspapers, part of the Global Press Archive, includes over 800,000 pages from three titles: Daily Nation (Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald, and The Monitor (Uganda). Coverage spans 1940s to the early 2000s.
The Archives of Sexuality & Gender includes manuscripts, articles, and ephemera digitized from Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. The sub-collections from this archive included in the database are: African Women's Life History Project, on female same-sex practices; Balancing Act: South African Gay & Lesbian Youth Speak Out; LEGATRA (Zambia) Collection: Alliance for the Defense of Lesbians, Gays and Transgender Persons' Basic Human Rights in Zambia; Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG); Simon Nkoli Collection, 1977 to 1998; Sistahs Kopanang; Sodomy Trials, Cape Archives, 1828 to 1961; and Swaziland Collection, 1997.
Apartheid South Africa makes available British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning the period 1948 to 1980. This resource is in three sections: Section I (1948-1966), Section II (1967-1975), and Section III (1976-1980).
DISA is a freely accessible online scholarly resource focusing on the socio-political history of South Africa, particularly the struggle for freedom during the period from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994. It includes a wide variety of source types, from articles and books to postcards, magazines and journals, interviews, photographs, pamphlets, and more.
ProQuest, in partnership with The National Security Archive, produce the Digital National Security Archive, the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Collections cover the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post-World War II through the 21st century, with access to more than 150,000 indexed, declassified government documents. The DNSA is comprised of many database collections which can be searched individually or together. It has one Africa-centered module: "South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962–1989."
The resource comprises the following databases; Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973–1990; The Afghanistan War and the United States, 1998-2017; Argentina, 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights Policy; The Berlin Crisis, 1958–1962; Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970–1990; China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960–1998; CIA Covert Operations: From Carter to Obama, 1977-2010; CIA Family Jewels Indexed; Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010; The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; The Cuban Missile Crisis: 50th Anniversary Update; The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection, From Bay of Pigs to Nuclear Brink; Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Ops, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999; Electronic Surveillance and the National Security Agency: From Shamrock to Snowden; El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977–1984; El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980–1994; Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977–1980; The Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal, 1983–1988; Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980–1994; Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960–1976, 1877-1992, and Part III, 1961-2000; The Kissinger Telephone Conversations: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977; The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977; Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013; The National Security Agency: Organization and Operations, 1945-2009; Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978–1990; Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000; The Philippines: U.S. Policy During the Marcos Years, 1965–1986; Presidential Directives on National Security, Part I: From Truman to Clinton; Presidential Directives on National Security, Part II: From Truman to George W. Bush; South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962–1989; The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947–1991; Targeting Iraq, Part 1: Planning, Invasion, and Occupation, 1997-2004; Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968–2002; U.S. Climate Change Diplomacy: From the Montreal Protocol to the Paris Agreement, 1981-2015; U.S. Espionage and Intelligence, 1947–1996; U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis and Covert Action; The U.S. Intelligence Community: Organization, Operations and Management, 1947–1989; The U.S. Intelligence Community After 9/11; U.S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq; U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945–1991; U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955–1968; U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy, 1945–1991; U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I (1954-1968) and Part II: (1969-1975); U.S. Policy toward Iran: From the Revolution to the Nuclear Accord, 1978-2015; and The United States and the Two Koreas, Part 1 (1969-2000) and Part II (1969-2010).
The South African History Archive (SAHA) is an independent human rights archive dedicated to documenting, supporting and promoting greater awareness of past and contemporary struggles for justice through archival practices and outreach, and the utilization of access to information laws. SAHA's collections are largely made up of documents, posters, photographs, ephemera and oral histories. While the majority of SAHA's collections are paper-based and can only be consulted in Johannesburg, a small range of digitized material can be accessed on this website by limiting your search to "Digitised Items in the Collections." Note that you have to register for a free account to gain access.
The official website of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)--a court-like restorative justice body set up after the end of apartheid in 1996--includes transcripts of amnesty and special hearings, as well as other primary and secondary source materials.
The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was one of the major political developments of the 20th century, with far-reaching consequences for people throughout Africa and around the globe. This collection focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It brings together materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region. Formerly known as Aluka: Struggles for Freedom.
The African Activist Archive preserves and makes available online 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.The website includes a growing archive of historical materials--pamphlets, newsletters, leaflets, buttons, posters, T-shirts, photographs, and audio and video recordings--that bear witness to social movements addressing every African country. Includes primary sources on Mozambique and Zimbabwean resistance movements.
The collection consists of rare works of poetry, organizational records, print publications, over one hundred articles, poems, plays, and speeches by Baraka, a small amount of personal correspondence, and oral histories.
Contains information about the migration histories of Africans forcibly carried on slave ships into the Atlantic. Using the personal details of 91,491 Africans liberated by International Courts of Mixed Commission and British Vice Admiralty Courts, this resource makes possible new geographic, ethnic, and linguistic data on peoples captured in Africa and pulled into the slave trade.
Primary source documents from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world. Coverage of topics such as the African Coast; the Middle Passage; the varieties of slave experience (urban, domestic, industrial, farm, ranch and plantation); Spiritualism and Religion; Resistance and Revolts; the Underground Railroad; the Abolition Movement; Legislation; Education; the Legacy of Slavery and Slavery Today.
Includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in the Caribbean, Latin America, and other regions-- cross-searchable pages sourced from books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps published in the U.S., U.K., England, the Netherlands, Haiti, and Spain. The majority of sources are in English, with a good strong share of French and some Spanish.
Information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The actual number is estimated to have been as high as 12.5 million.
