Digitized materials from more than twenty-five Louisiana libraries, archives, museums, and cultural institutions. Encompasses public, university, and private collections.
Distinctive cultural heritage content that delights, celebrates diverse ideas and experiences, and elevates critical thinking, to help us think, learn, and act with integrity and wisdom.
Xavier University of Louisiana's Digital Archives contains a wealth of internationally and locally valued historical manuscripts, photographs, videos, ephemera, and university records. Includes multiple collections documenting slavery and freedom in Louisiana and the U.S.
The Archdiocese of New Orleans has digitized the baptism, marriage, and funeral records of people of diverse racial and ethnic identities from 1772 to 1818.
The City Archives & Special Collections Photographs and Digital Collections includes thousands of photographic prints, negatives, slides, posters, brochures, and born-digital images from individual photographers and New Orleans municipal government agencies.
This digital project uses the scholarship of Black feminist scholars, historians, and public intellectuals to center Black and Indigenous life in French and Spanish colonial archives dating from 1714 to 1803.
Sourced from the Library of Congress, City and Business Directories: Louisiana, 1805-1929 contains 92 digitized directories that provide a window on the names, occupations, and addresses of people living in Louisiana in the 19th and early 20th centuries. City Directories are one of the few means available for researchers to uncover information about day-to-day life through analysis of information on churches, public and private schools, benevolent, literary and other associations, and banks.
Consists mainly of manuscript case files appealed from lower state courts to the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Many cases pertain to slavery and enslaved people. Digitized from Louisiana Supreme Court records housed at the Earl K. Long Library at the University of New Orleans.
Provides access to field recordings, photographs, radio programs, interviews, and lectures of ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. Additional field work materials are available in the Alan Lomax Collection at the Library of Congress, many items from which have been digitized and are available freely online.
Broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900, not only in the United States, but also Canada, Mexico, the U.K., as well as a selection of European, Asian, and Latin American countries and cities.
Offers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history.
The resource comprises the following modules: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records and Supplement ; Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Parts 1 and 2: NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files; NAACP Papers: Branch Department, Branch Files, and Youth Department Files; NAACP Papers: Special Subjects; NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces; NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files; NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses; and African American Police League Records (1961-1988).
The Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve collection consists of interviews and photographs by Mary Hufford and Tom Tankersley in December 1985 for the American Folklife Center, comprising part of the preliminary fieldwork for a proposed cooperative project with the National Park Service's Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in southern Louisiana.
Open access written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. From the collections of the Library of Congress and others.
Digital exhibition of 119 items from the various special and general collections of the Library of Congress, which tell the story of the acquisition of Louisiana by the United States of America from France in 1803.
Consists of modules with a focus on Slavery and the Law; Slavery in Antebellum Southern Industries; records focused on the Slave trade and other legal issues pertaining to slavery.
The resource comprises the following modules: Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Law and Order in 19th Century America (1636-1880); Slavery in Antebellum Southern Industries (1700-1896); Slavery and the Law (1775-1867); and Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantations Records, Parts 1-4.
Sourced from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, provides analysis of poverty in America with an extensive inventory of historical data at a local level. Each profile, composed as a narrative with statistical indices, contains information showing general poverty indicators, size and composition of the poor population, and selected aspects of geography, demography, economy, and social resources. Southern states in this collection include Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Primary source documents from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world. Includes digitized documents from the special collections of the Earl K. Long Library at the University of New Orleans and Louisiana State University Libraries. 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.
