This collection provides access to more than 4,000 U.S. news sources, including current coverage and archives back to the 1980s. The platform draws from national, regional, and local news content, including access to more than 70 Virginia news sources, such as The Virginian-Pilot and Richmond Times-Dispatch.
This collection from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) contains five series of full-text periodicals covering all aspects of American life.
Featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Black Freedom Struggle in the United States contains over 3,000 documents focused on six different phases: Slavery and Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860), Civil War and Reconstruction Era (1861-1877), Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932), New Deal and World War II (1933-1945), Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975), Contemporary Era (1976-2000s).
Archives Unbound includes more than 20 collections of primary source documents related to the Civil Rights Movement.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive consists of more than five million cross-searchable pages sourced from books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps from many different countries covering the history of the slave trade. The collection is made up of four parts:
Historical newspaper archive covering 1916 - 2003.
History Vault: Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle contains the following collections:
Archival Resources of the Virginias (ARVAS), formerly Virginia Heritage, is a consolidated database of finding aids that provides information about the vast array of manuscripts and archival materials housed in historical societies, libraries, museums, colleges, and universities across Virginia and West Virginia.