Research Guides (LibGuides): FYS Brain Candy (Berkowitz): Non Butler Resources

Resources and Descriptions

Immigrant Records at the National Archives
"Among the billions of historical records housed at the National Archives throughout the country, researchers can find information relating to immigrants from the late 1700s through the early 2000s. The National Archives preserves and makes available documents created by Federal agencies in the course of their daily business."

Lesbian Herstory Archive
"The Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather, preserve and provide access to records of Lesbian lives and activities. Doing this also serves to uncover and document our herstory previously denied to us by patriarchal historians in the interests of the culture that they served. The existence of the Archives will thus enable current and future generations to analyze and reevaluate the Lesbian experience."
-Lesbian Herstory Archives About Page

Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) was created for the purpose of providing accessible historical narratives to the general public. The DPLA houses digital exhibits, collections, and guides based on the occupation of the user (i.e. student guides, educator guides, etc).
DPLA Primary Source Sets
This portion of the DPLA focuses solely on primary sources. The sources are organized based on subjects, historical periods, and chronology.

Library of Congress
"The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office."- Library of Congress About Page

Project STAND
This database has been created and maintained by colleges and universities for the purpose of highlighting "student activism in marginalized communities" (about page). The collections deal primarily with American historical movements.

Archive-It
Since 2006, Internet Archive’s Archive-it has provided web archiving services to over 800 organizations in over 24 countries, including libraries, cultural memory and research institutions, social impact and community groups, and educational and open knowledge initiatives. Archive-it users have preserved over 40 billion born-digital, web-published records, totaling petabytes of data.

Black Lives Matter
The official #BlackLivesMatter Global Network builds power to bring justice, healing, and freedom to Black people across the globe.
Preserve The Baltimore Uprising Archive Project
Preserve the Baltimore Uprising began as a digital repository designed to preserve and make accessible original content captured and created by individual community members, grassroots organizations, and witnesses to the protests that followed the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, 2015.
Documenting Ferguson
Documenting Ferguson is a freely available resource that seeks to preserve and make accessible the digital media captured and created by community members following the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014. Our project has the ultimate goal of providing diverse perspectives on the events in Ferguson and the resulting social dialogue.
A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland
A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland collects, preserves, and shares the stories, memories, and accounts of police violence as experienced or observed by Cleveland citizens.

Occupy Archive
#Occupy Archive is documenting and saving the digital evidence and stories from the Occupy protests worldwide that began in September 2011 in Lower Manhattan. Occupy Wall Street (OWS) inspired groups to form in small towns and large cities around the world. # Occupy Archive seeks to represent each of those groups with individual collections.