African History

Africa Focus brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary resources: research and teaching materials collected by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable items related to these fields held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries. This collection contains more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countries. It is hoped that the search features of the collection will be a convenient aid to scholarship, study, and teaching of these disciplines.

Free online access to collected books, videos, maps, manuscripts, illustrations and photos.

An open access digital library of African cultural heritage materials created by Michigan State University in collaboration with museums, archives, scholars, and communities around the world. Free access to cultural heritage materials from and about African countries and communities. Contains digitized photographs, videos, archival documents, maps, interviews and oral histories in numerous African languages.

Spanning 500 years of historical, digitized maps of Africa.

HTML primary source materials in the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government

Digital collection of items related to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, pre-genocide history and post-genocide reconstruction processes. Materials also preserved and accessible at physical archive located at the Kigali Genocide Memorial.

Contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Provided by the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Primary source materials in the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government

From the historical collections of the Library of Congress. Find primary documents about military history, presidential letters and speeches, films, photographs and posters. Also see what happened on any day in history.

From The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this project makes available images, finding aids, and special collections.

Subject guides for various topics, including U.S. wars, art, architecture, U.S. treaties, etc. Each guide includes links to original U.S. documents and other related resources.

The official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication.

Indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history from around the world, including more than 260,000 pages of full text. Covers 20th Century.

"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

"....a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology."

"At the University of Michigan, approximately 1,600 books and ten journals with imprints primarily between 1850 - 1877 were selected, scanned, and made available through the present system."

An independent non-governmental research institute and library, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records.

"Provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more."