AMERICAN HISTORY
AAPI History
Farewell to Manzanar - Requires an e-card from Los Angeles Public Library to access. Collects primary sources on America's history of interning Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newsletters - Requires an e-card from LA County Library to access. This digital collection of Japanese relocation camp newspapers records the concerns and day-to-day life of interned Japanese-Americans.
Black History
Africana & Black History - Drawings, maps, and photos related to the history of African Americans in slavery and Reconstruction
Black Life in America - Requires an e-card from Los Angeles Public Library to access. The content in this database is sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications and reflects the experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media.
The Green Book for Negro Motorists - a directory of safe travel destinations for Black people prepared by the U.S. Travel Bureau, 1937 - 1963
Schomburg's Collection of Publicly Available Primary Sources - The Schomburg Division of New York Public Library does great research on Black History.
Southern Life, Slavery, & The Civil War - Requires an e-card from Los Angeles Public Library to access. Collections are organized into three modules: Slavery and the Law, Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records, Part 1 and Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records, Part 2.
Economic History
Farm Security Administration Photographs - 40,000 photographs taken during the 1930s and 1940s by Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, and Russell Lee, among others. Initially the government project documented the Resettlement Administration’s distribution of cash loans to displaced and struggling farmers and its construction of planned communities, but later broadened its focus to include migratory laborers in the Midwest and West, as well as sharecroppers in the South. Eastern locations including New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut are represented as well. Under the Office of War Information, the agenda shifted to themes of patriotism and war production.
Housing Authority Photo Collection - Requires an e-card from Los Angeles Public Library to access. Photos of homes built under the Truman Administration's initiative under the Fair Deal to build affordable housing.
Immigration History
Photos from Life in New York, Turn of the 20th Century - Lewis Hines - New York Public Library
Indigenous History
After Columbus: Four Hundred Years of Native-American Portraiture
War Department & Indian Affairs - Requires an e-card from LA County Library to access. Consists of the letters received by and sent to the War Department, including correspondence from Indian superintendents and agents, factors of trading posts, Territorial and State governors, military commanders, and more.
Jewish American History
American Jewish Committee Oral History Collection - Audio interviews with Jews on life as a Jew in America in the 20th century.
B'Nai B'rith Messenger - a newspaper for the Jewish community in the United States in print from 1898 to 1977
Photos from Life in New York, Turn of the 20th Century - Lewis Hines - New York Public Library
Labor History
Social and Work Conditions in Early 20th Century Cities - Lewis Hines
LGBTQIA+ History
LGBT Materials in the New York Public Library - documents and images related to life and the struggle for gay liberation
Digital Transgender Archive
1960s
Fact Magazine Archives - an alternative magazine from the 1960s with articles from a counter-culture perspective
FILM HISTORY
Jerome Robbins Photographs - from the creation of West Side Story
Media History Digital Library - primary sources related to film history, including posters, playbooks, and magazines
GLOBAL COLLECTIONS
LIBERIA - New York Public Library Digital Collections
WORLD WAR II
B'Nai B'rith Messenger - a newspaper for the Jewish community in the United States in print from 1898 to 1977
German Propaganda Photographs