New Resources & Collections Updates: Home

Comprehensive collection of U.S. Indian claims documents from 1789 to the present, including: Indian Claims Commission documents from 1948-1978; pre-1948 claims presented to Congress and/or brought before the Court of Claims; post-1978 claims brought before the US Court of Claims (through 1982) and US Court of Federal Claims (through 2006); documents related to post-2006 settlement of claims, congressional publications directly related to Indian claims, and maps. Features claim histories for individual states/territories and nations/tribes, as well as document history views showing the complete legal process for individual claims. (Full-Text)

Primary sources documenting Mexican history from c.1500 to 1929, covering Spanish colonization and the formation of New Spain through the Mexican War of Independence to the Mexican Revolution. Documents are sourced from the Bancroft Library at the University of California Berkeley and are predominantly in Spanish, with translated metadata. (Full-Text and Images)

Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. (Full-Text)

Primary sources focusing on LGBTQ history and associated social, political, health and legal issues. Includes newspapers, magazines, newsletters, manuscripts, correspondence, and more.

Modern and historical essays, journals, newspapers, fiction, literature, and poetry on the African diaspora experience. Includes the historical Chicago Defender newspaper. Material comes from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. (Full-Text)

Primary source books, pamphlets, periodicals, and broadsides covering American popular culture, social history, family life, education, race, class, and employment from 1800-1920. (Full-Text)

Testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides, including the Armenian Genocide and events in Nanjing, Guatemala, Myanmar (anti-Rohingya mass violence), Rwanda (genocide against the Tutsi), Cambodia, South Sudan, and Central African Republic; also includes interviews about contemporary anti-Semitic violence. (Streaming Video)