American Studies - African Americanist Graduate Cohort

Collection of "at risk" black gospel music from 1940's through the 1980's. Click "View the Collection" to actually access recorded songs, but be sure to check out the interviews on this homepage to understand the collection's context.

A subject specific search link into the DPLA. Includes images, texts, and sound/video clips.

The Hiphop Archive focuses on the knowledge, art, culture, materials, organizations, movements and institutions developed by those who support and follow Hiphop. Located at W.E.B. Dubois Institute for Afro-American Research.

Since its inception in 1957 the United States Commission on Civil Rights has been at the forefront of efforts by the Federal government and state governments to examine and resolve issues related to race, ethnicity, religion and, more recently, sexual orientation. The Thurgood Marshall Law Library offers access to the historical record of this important federal agency by archiving and/or digitizing many of its publications.

Includes images, texts and maps that explore "thirteen defining migrations that formed and transformed African America" from 1450 to the present.

Visualizing the hidden histories of race and privilege in Minneapolis. This map shows how racial restrictions were embedded in the physical landscape of our community. Using racial covenants in Hennepin County property deeds, this site illuminates how much land was reserved for the exclusive use of white people for most of the twentieth century.

New York Public Library digital collections keyword search for African American. Includes images, recordings, text, and notated music.

A freely available search tool and widget that brings together over 400,000 digitized materials documenting African American culture and history from over 1,000 libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions.

Discover, watch, and listen to historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America.

A historical archive of video and sound recordings from the Associated Press and their partners that include newsreels from the 20th century.

Provides access to online films, texts, images, and audio recordings related to the Civil Rights movement in the United States in the 1950's and 1960's. CRDL is a partnership among librarians, technologists, archivists, educators, scholars, academic publishers, and public broadcasters.

Provides streaming access to a large collection of documentary films about American folk, or roots, cultures. Includes essays about the traditions and filmmakes, transcriptions, study and teaching guides, suggested readings, and links to related websites. Site provides simple keyword and advanced searching, as well as ability to brose by subjects, regions, titles, filmmakers, and other categories. Video displays include links to additional, related films.

Software Carpentry offers free, hands-on workshops that cover the core computational research skills needed to be productive as an individual scientist or in small research teams. No previous experience is needed and each workshop is taught by experienced researchers who use these tools in their own work. Participants will learn how to automate tasks using the Unix shell, will be introduced to a structured programming language like Python or R, and will gain experience using Git and Github for version control.

A series of workshops created by LATIS (Liberal Arts Technology and Innovation Services) that are free and open to all faculty and graduate students.

Learn something new at a library workshop! Register for everything from using citation managers to finding grant funding.

U-Spatial offers instructor-led workshops focusing on different geospatial tools/technologies and other resources.