Primary Sources

150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting documents, and videos on the history of disability and disability studies, with emphasis on the disability rights movement.

An archive of documents chronicling the LGBTQ experience in the 2nd half of the twentieth century. It includes newsletters, newspapers and periodicals, archives from LGBTQ rights organizations worldwide, government and medical responses to the AIDS crisis and more.

A full-text research database covering “the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America”— among them are Black Americans, Arab Americans, Jewish Americans, Latinx Americans, Indigenous Americans, and Asian Americans (including Chinese, Filipino, and South Asian Americans). Focus is on the United States, and most content is in English. The database includes full-text articles from thousands of ebooks,  465  journals, magazines, and newspapers as well as  primary sources.

Rafu Shimpo, which is based in Los Angeles, has been the nation's leading Japanese American newspaper since its original publication.
This digital archive includes issues from 1904 to 2024 with an additional year’s worth of content added on an annual basis.

Colonial Caribbean covers the history of the various territories under British colonial governance from 1624 to 1870. The volumes included within this resource are all sourced from The National Archives, UK.

• Module I: Settlement, Slavery, and Empire, 1624-1832: covers the establishment of British colonial settlement, the rise of absentee landlords, the rise and decline of the slave trade, and the rise of the abolition movement.
• Module II: Colonial Government and Abolition, 1833-1849: covers the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act, its impact on the Caribbean islands and their governments, the introduction of apprenticeships, and resistance to abolitionist legislation.  
• Module III: Economic Change and Indentured Labour, 1850-1870: covers the rise of indentured labor of Chinese and Indian workers against a backdrop of injustice and poverty in previously enslaved communities, leading to widespread rebellion across the Caribbean.

Printed works, diaries and journals, correspondence, maps, photographs, and film footage for researching the history of European colonization and exploitation across the African continent. This resource  charts Africa’s encounters with European imperialist regimes and their impact on the lives of peoples across the continent.

Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 is official British government correspondence concerning Africa from the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office. It was issued by the British Government and is part of the series that 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. All items marked 'Confidential Print' were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet, and to heads of British missions abroad.