A-Z Databases

This open access database brings together hundreds of prison newspapers from across the country into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women-only institutions.

This open access database focuses on unearthing and digitizing the histories of civil rights activism by the everyday citizens of Black, Latino, Indigenous, and Asian American/Pacific Islander communities.

This open access database includes periodicals that depict the various political, literary, and cultural forms that Black Americans used to advance their vision in the ongoing struggle for liberation and dignity. Though primarily centered around the Black Power movement of the late 1960s-1970s, it includes magazines and newsletters from women’s organizations, religious groups, labor organizations from throughout the 20th century as well as content from Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.

This open access database serves as a vital resource for understanding the multifaceted roles that art has played in responding to, reckoning with, and remembering the AIDS crisis. This digital collection is dedicated to exploring how art has served as a form of activism, a medium for healing and bearing witness, and a vehicle for remembrance, rage, grief, and sparks of joy. It seeks to document ways in which groups and institutions, both within and outside of formal art worlds, have worked to support artists impacted by HIV/AIDS.

An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.