Guide to Digital Collections (History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library)

Over 50,000 pages of popular magazines written for Black African audiences and published between 1937 and 1973. Much of the content, which includes investigative journalism, photography, fiction, reviews, biographies, advertisements, and more, was created by a new generation of Black journalists, writers and artists. Many of the titles were syndicated across the continent and contained content specifically developed for the African English-speaking world, so they provide a view of Black society across all of Africa.

More than 100,000 pages of newly digitized, historically significant publications from Hilary Ng’weno’s media company. Much of the material has not been available outside of Africa Highlights include the Weekly Review, and the Nairobi Times.

Over 10,000 documents from newspapers across West Africa.

1845-1917. Official organ of: the British Cotton Growing Association, and: and the West African Sanitation of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Currently includes about 65 newspapers from Africa, covering late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Click here to view a complete title list for African Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive). Part of the World Newspaper Archive.

1905-1913. Business weekly published in London, devoted to "“Commerce, Exploration, Mining, Finance.” Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1878-1891. Official bulletin of the Société Académique Indo-Chinoise. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1891-1914. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Missionary newspaper published by the Lovedale Institution Press at Lovedale in Cape Colony. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

26 periodicals published between 1804 and 2009 by Britain's Church Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society Mid-Africa Ministry, and the South American Missionary Society. No subject index for individual articles.

1821-1922. 24 newspapers. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1884-1922. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

South African daily newspaper, 1938-1987. Part of East View's Global Press Archive.

The Rand, South Africa Daily mail, 1902-1985.

1890-1981. 9 missionary periodicals. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Sources documenting colonialism in Africa, primarily from a European perspective. Document types include diaries, journals, illustrated sketchbooks, correspondence, personal papers, government documents, photographs, printed books, reports, and films. Document creators include explorers, scientists, missionaries, travelers, military personnel, colonial administrators, diplomats, business people, journalists, and the British Foreign Office.

A catalog of open-access digitized primary sources from hundreds of libraries and historical societies. Use this resource to identify digitzed books, periodicals (including journals, magazines, gazetteers, and newsletters), government documents, maps, realia, photographs, and more. Includes records for documents from 1000 CE to the present.

Covering African diasporic communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, Britain, and France from 1860 to the present, this collection contains both primary and secondary textual sources, as well as feature films and television programs. Primary sources include archival collections, composed principally of two major record series from the British National Archives (series CO, Records of the Colonial Office; and series FO, Records of the Foreign Office). You will also find periodicals, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, correspondence, interviews, personal narratives, literary works, and photographs. Hundreds of websites are indexed as well.

Documents American Committee on Africa (ACOA) involvement in African liberation struggles in the twentieth century and ACOA's work to inform the American public on African issues, expand US solidarity with liberation movements throughout Africa, and work with leaders and activists across Africa to drive political change. Covers a wide range of intersecting themes, from social justice, civil rights, and decolonization, to US anti-apartheid movements and Africa during the Cold War.

Covers the years 1948-1980. Documents from the British National Archives. Records have been selected from the following record series FO 371; FCO 45; FCO 105; CO 1048; DO 35; DO 119; DO 157; DO 161; DO 165; DO 180; DO 193; DO 212; DO 216; FCO 13; FCO 29; FCO 38; FCO 58; FCO 61; FCO 65; FO 924; FO 953; FO 973; FO 1110; and FO 1117.
Keyword searchable, and browsable by National Archives record series numbers.
Includes a subject index that can be searched but not browsed.
Part of AM Archives Direct.

British government documents, mostly from the Foreign Office, but also from the Colonial Office, the Dominions Office, and the War Office. "Confidential Prints" were diplomatic dispatches and related documents deemed sufficiently important to be printed and then circulated among government officials. The prints were grouped into series by geographical region, and then numbered consecutively, but after being transferred to the Public Records Office, the prints were organized according to the National Archives' system of provenance. Part of AM Archives Direct.

15th century to the present. Emphasis on the British Empire. Collection tilts heavily toward the 18th century, 19th century, and early 20th centuries.

Covering the period September 4, 1941 through 1996. The FBIS is a branch of the United States government that has operated variously under the Federal Communications Commission, the War Department, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Its purpose is to produce “open source intelligence” reports for the U.S. government. The agency monitors radio broadcasts, newspapers, and other publicly available news sources from around the world, and then transcribes and translates this news so that it may be used to inform American foreign policy. Sometimes news is translated in its entirety; sometimes it is summarized. In addition to news, the FBIS staff translate speeches, interviews, and other types of information sources. n addition to keyword searching, the collection also supports browsing by major historical events.

1650-1920, with bulk of documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Emphasis is on British colonialism in North America, Africa, and Australasia. Hybrid collection of books, government documents, legal records, correspondence, business records, maps, diaries and memoirs, pamphlets, ephemera, realia, artwork, and more. Organized around fifteen broad themes: Travel and Exploration; Natural World; Land and Property; Government and Politics; Warfare and Military History; Law and Order; Business and Commerce; Industry and Technology; Agriculture; Art and Entertainment; Healthcare; Women’s History; Children and Family; Religion; and Indigenous Peoples. Collection can also be browsed by subjects (topics, people, and places).

Books, pamphlets, periodicals documenting the economic history of the West, very broadly defined, including political writings, works on international relations, international trade and commerce, and slavery, travel narratives, legal cases, and government publications. Based on the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at Harvard University, The Making of the Modern World includes more than 60,000 books and 450 journals.

Manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, and maps. Emphasis on the Atlantic world, but includes coverage of Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific. Documents all aspects of slave trade and the slave experience.

Books, periodicals, manuscripts, court records, and reference works documenting world slavery and the slave trade from the 16th century through the 19th.

Shipping manifests from nearly 35,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866.

1800-1899. 2,510 books from the Bryn Mawr College Library. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online. The African Mail, 1845-1917; the African World and Cape-Cairo Express, 1905-1913; the Annales de l'Extreme Orient et de l'Afrique, 1878-1891; the Bulletins du Comite de l'Afrique francaise, 1891-1914; a collection of colonial African newspapers from the British Library; despatches from United States consulates in Africa, 1818-1906; the Deutsche Kolonialzeitung, 1884-1922; correspondence and entry books from the British War and Colonial Department, 1794–1843, related to the exploration of Africa; a collection of books from the Kolonialbibliothek at the Universitätsbibliothek J.C. Senckenberg at Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main on German colonization of Africa; colonial censuses of Africa, 1820-1931; papers of Joseph Chamberlain relating to Africa; Methodist Episcopal Church African missionary correspondence, 1846-1912; travel narratives of African exploration; official statistical registers and blue books of Cape Colony; official statistical yearbooks and censuses of the Natal Colony; Report of the Boundary Survey between British Bechuanaland and German Southwest Africa of 1898-1903; selected Africa collections from the Bodleian Library; selected British Cabinet papers on Africa; selected Colonial Office files on Africa; selected Dominions Office files on Africa; selected Foreign Office files on Africa; selected India Office records on colonial Africa; selected War Office files on Africa; selected maps and plans files on Africa; memoirs of colonial Africa; and Yale Divinity School periodicals on Africa.

TRIAL. Digitized from the records of the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Part of Archives Unbound.

1794-1844. Manuscripts from National Archives record series CO 2 (War and Colonial Department: Africa Exploration, etc.) and CO 392 (Africa Exploration, Entry Books). Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1878-1910. 554 books from the Colonial Library of the Universitätsbibliothek J.C. Senckenberg at Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1820-1931. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1893-1903. 274 manuscripts (35,761 pages). from the University of Birmingham Library. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Based on the Bassett and Scheven bibliography, Maps of Africa to 1900: A Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the Collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Over 2,400 maps.

136 manuscripts (8,549 pages) from the General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church in Madison, New Jersey. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1836-1913. Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1809-1903. Personal correspondence, notes, and photographs from the manuscript collections of the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House, University of Oxford, University of Oxford. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1890-1916. Documents related to Africa selected from National Archives Record Series CAB 37: Cabinet Office: Photographic Copies of Cabinet Papers. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1794-1919. Includes: CO 50: War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Cape of Good Hope Colony (Cape Colony), Acts Passed by the Government of Cape Colony; CO 114: War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: British Guiana, Formerly Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo, Sessional Papers; CO 455: British South Africa Company Government Gazettes; CO 525: Colonial Office: Nyasaland Original Correspondence; CO 527: Colonial Office: South Africa, Intercolonial Council Original Correspondence; CO 528: Colonial Office: South Africa Railways Original Correspondence; CO 537: Colonial Office and predecessors: Confidential General and Confidential Original Correspondence; CO 873: Colonial Office: Wei-Hai-Wei Commissioner's Files; and CO 879: War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Africa, Confidential Print. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1896-1897. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1825-1905. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1867-1922. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1792-1915. From the manuscript collections of the British Library. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1875-1938. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Travel narratives and related documents about travel in Africa, mostly from the "long 19th century." From the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Over 10,000 documents from newspapers across West Africa.

NARA publication number T365, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

NARA publication number T47, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

I.e. Gabon. NARA publication number T466, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

NARA publication number T573, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

NARA publication number M171, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

NARA publication number T434, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

NARA publication number T438, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

NARA publication number T428, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

NARA publication number T430, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Previously available only on microfilm or on site at the Uganda Christian University, Mukono, this collection provides online access to 8 series of records from the Church of Uganda archives: Series 1, Office of the Bishop of Uganda (1882-1961); Series 2, Education Secretary General (1936-1964); Series 3, General Secretary (1924-1963); Series 4, Financial Secretary (1929-1963); Series 5, Archbishop's Office (1960-1993); Series 6, Provincial Secretary (1960-1995); Series 7, Mother’s Union (1960-1991); and Series 8, Provincial Treasurer (1960-1991). The records in this collection document the activity of the Anglican Church in Uganda from 1882 through 1995.

NARA publication number T171, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

NARA publication number T60, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

NARA publication number M468, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Content spanning the 1900s to the early 2000s. Offers—for the first time—streaming access to more than a century of African history, politics, and culture. Five film types are represented: propaganda, newsreels, documentaries, feature films, and interviews.

Covers the years 1948-1980. Documents from the British National Archives. Records have been selected from the following record series FO 371; FCO 45; FCO 105; CO 1048; DO 35; DO 119; DO 157; DO 161; DO 165; DO 180; DO 193; DO 212; DO 216; FCO 13; FCO 29; FCO 38; FCO 58; FCO 61; FCO 65; FO 924; FO 953; FO 973; FO 1110; and FO 1117.
Keyword searchable, and browsable by National Archives record series numbers.
Includes a subject index that can be searched but not browsed.
Part of AM Archives Direct.

NARA publication number T191, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

NARA publication number T660, from Record Group 59. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

A very wide range of document types emphasizing the socio-political history of South Africa, particularly the struggle for freedom during the period from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994.

1884-1910. Statistical Register of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

1893-1909. Statistical year books and censuses. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.