Sociology

This collection consists of the diaries, journals, and narratives of explorers, emigrants, military men, Native Americans, and travelers.

This digital resource provides access to material from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection, and spans four centuries and covers North and Central America.

Designed for teaching and research, this resource brings together documents and collections from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world, covering five centuries. The resource offers case studies in America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Cuba along with important material examining European, Islamic and African involvement in the slave trade.

A resource detailing the growth of the human rights movement during the second half of the twentieth century through the International Secretariat records of Amnesty International.

This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.

Music, Politics, Fashion, Youth Culture – the period from 1950 to 1975 witnessed dramatic changes in society. By focusing on collections of original archival material from libraries in Britain and America, this digital resource provides primary sources to enable students and scholars to examine these issues in detail.

1980s Culture and Society is compiled from archival collections housed across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. Materials produced by grassroots organizations and under-represented groups are presented alongside government records and mainstream media to showcase the key social, cultural, and political concerns of the decade.

The primary source material in this collection focuses on race relations across social, political, cultural and religious arenas, with particular focus on Atlanta, Chicago, Brooklyn, and towns and cities in North Carolina.

Nineteenth century newspaper collection that includes The Christian Recorder, The Colored American/Weekly Advocate, Frederick Douglass’ Paper/Douglass' Monthly, Freedmen's Journal (Freedmen's Record), Freedom’s Journal, The National Era, The Negro Business League Herald, The North Star, and Provincial Freeman.

Digital publishing initiative by the University of North Carolina Library that contains primary sources on the cultural history of the American South. Autobiographies, travel accounts, diaries, etc. regarding slavery and regional literature are included. The 19th century is emphasized.

ProQuest Black Studies combines archives research experience with Black Historical Newspapers and curated secondary sources. The combination of first-hand accounts through primary sources combined with secondary sources of videos, journals and essays equips students to think critically and analyze the people, organizations, and events of Black Studies from multiple perspectives.

This digital collection explores American social, cultural, and popular history, providing access to primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It is made up of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes.

Digital resources covering mid-20th century social movements. Contains near or complete runs of 750 alternative press newspapers and magazines published by activists driving the major social movements of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, activists that include feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, as well as alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century. Also contains a very large digital aggregation of “little magazines” content, especially useful in contemporary poetry and the early works of well-known literary figures of today.