African American Studies: Home

Explore African-American history, culture, and contemporary issues through relevant essays, biographies, speeches, and court cases. Search by keyword or browse by time period to find photos, maps, and primary documents.

Watch documentaries, newsreels, and archival footage of key events in American history. Follow or search synchronized transcripts for each video. Bookmark, link, embed, and share entire videos or custom clips that you create yourself.

Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history highlighting the American experience.

A suite of social history databases (Daily Life through History and Daily Life America) that includes a collection of primary documents, reference works, monographs, images, maps, illustrations, and time lines depicting essential activities of daily life across the globe and throughout history.