History Research

Digitized collections of papers from Amelia Earhart, private and public collections.

The Black Women Oral History Project interviewed 72 African American women between 1976 and 1981.

Digitization from 1867-1900.

The Helen Keller Archival Collection at the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is the world’s largest repository of letters, speeches, press clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, architectural drawings, artifacts and audio-video materials relating to Helen Keller.

This latter collection consists of general advertising, fashion photography, and product information for textiles produced and marketed by Bancroft in the 20th century. It also documents the Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company's sponsorship of the Miss America Pageant and the promotion of fabrics by Miss America from the years 1953 to 1967.

Digitized from 1903-1999.

One family tree signed Alice E.Anthony, November 2, 1892, Coleta, Illinois; includes 3 letters from E. E. Brownell to Lucy E. Anthony about the Brownell family, 1936-1937.

Transcripts and records from the 1700s.

Narrators include labor, peace, and anti-racism activists; artists and writers; lesbian rights advocates; grassroots anti-violence and anti-poverty organizers; and women of color reproductive justice leaders.