The Films on Demand database includes many performances, documentaries, interviews, and other videos focused on dance and music from the African continent and the Diaspora.
Video streaming service for educational films and documentaries, focusing on history, music, and dance.
A growing collection of nearly 3,000 oral history video interviews with both well-known and unsung African Americans, highlighting the history, lives, careers, and accomplishments of African Americans across a wide variety of fields.
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Video streaming service for educational films and documentaries, focusing on history, music, and dance.
Audio and video recordings, field notebooks, and journals documenting music from Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific islands, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas.
Primary sources like reports, news, letters, diaries, and more from British missionary societies serving as employer and community to Christian missionaries in the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Asia.
Dates: 1804-1957 CE
Primary sources like reports, news, letters, diaries, and more from British missionary societies serving as employer and community to Christian missionaries in the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Asia.
Dates: 1804-1957 CE
More than 130 newspapers published by and for American ethnic groups, with German-American, Irish-American, and Japanese-American papers forming the bulk. English language news is predominant.
Dates: 1799-1971 CE
Focusing primarily on Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and North Carolina, this resource documents multiple aspects of African American communities through pamphlets, news, letters, photos, maps, and oral histories. Themes include arts and culture, civil rights and Black power, education, policing, and faith and religion.
Dates: 1810-2011 CE
Full-text of 282 Black American newspapers.
Dates: 1827-1998 CE
The full text of one of America's biggest African-American newspapers. Browsable by article type (obituary, editorial, etc).
Dates: 1909-1975 CE
A growing collection of nearly 3,000 oral history video interviews with both well-known and unsung African Americans, highlighting the history, lives, careers, and accomplishments of African Americans across a wide variety of fields.
Full text of more than 60 newspapers from across Africa, in English and other languages.
Dates: 1800-1922 CE