"Rock Hall EDU, our free digital learning platform, is full of resources and activities that use the power of rock & roll to engage students of all ages."
"The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute curates all forms of Hiphop material culture including recordings, videos, websites, films, original papers, works, references, productions, conferences, meetings, interviews, publications, research, formal proceedings, etc."
An online collection of "primarily vocal music of American imprint. Dates from the 18th century to the present day, with the largest concentration of titles in the period 1840-1950."
"The Spirituals Database offers searchable access to recorded track information for concert Negro Spiritual settings performed by solo Classical vocalists. The resource contains a selection from a century of historic and contemporary concert spiritual recordings produced on compact discs, long-playing (33 1/3 rpm) albums, 78 rpm records, 45 rpm discs, audio cassettes and streamed audio files, as well as demonstration recordings from musical score collections."
A website devoted to "African heritage in Classical music," including coverage of composers, conductors, and performers from Africa, Europe, and the United States.
A "living collection of books, articles, documentaries, series, podcasts and more about the Black origins of traditional and popular music dating from the 18th century to present day."
Online access to "primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others" about "the struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s."
A digital library of primary sources in American social history. The scope includes the Antebellum period through Reconstruction.
The scope includes 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. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th-century imprints. The Making of America is a project of the University of Michigan.
Primary source database primarily including documents from the United States and Europe related to slavery and abolition. In addition to newspapers and books published in the U.S. antebellum era, the database includes manuscripts and documents. Access is provided to two modules of this collection: Debates Over Slavery and Abolition and Slave Trade in the Atlantic World.
African American Newspapers provides online access to more than 350 US newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. This unique collection, which includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, features many rare 19th-century titles.
This database provides access to vast quantities of diverse primary source materials, including newspapers, magazines, books, and American county histories, reflecting broad views across American history and culture across the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.
This archival collection from Fisk University's Race Relations Department documents three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, and showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department's staff and Institute participants, including Charles S Johnson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.