Social History

African American Collections
This collection draws upon church minute meetings, extension bulletins, personal papers, photographs, and oral histories to document the history of blacks in Alabama. Some documents may be viewed online.
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/afam.htm

American Jewish Archives
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center at Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, Ohio documents Jewish life in the United States. It includes manuscripts, photographs, tapes, microfilm, and genealogical materials.
http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/index.html

The American Jewish Historical Society Archives
About 1,000 collections of personal papers and institutional records related to Jewish life in the Americas.
http://www.ajhs.org/reference/archives.cfm

American Life Histories
Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940, deposited in the Library of Congress Manuscripts Division. The collection can be viewed online.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

The Amistad Research Center
Art and manuscripts charting African-American history and race rlations, located at Tulane University. Includes a digital photograph collection.
http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/

Archives of Women in Science and Engineering
Includes personal papers of women scientists and engineers and the records of related organizations, held at Iowa State University.
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html

Black Archives of Mid-America
Documents African-Americans in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Oklahoma, including diaries, newspapers, records and oral histories. In Kansas City, Missouri.
http://www.blackarchives.org/

The Education and Research Institute
Washington-based organization with an archive of formerly top-secret FBI files obtained via FOIA. List of holdings. Searchable finding aid for the 26,000+ page Silvermaster file.
http://education-research.org/

Florida Atlantic University Judaica Sound Archives
Dedicated to rescuing, preserving and sharing Jewish voices and music from the past. Search the archives and listen to their recordings here.
http://faujsa.fau.edu/

Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts
Microfilm copies of 90% of known Hebrew manuscripts, held in Jerusalem.
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/imhm/

International Institute of Social History
Based in the Netherlands, it is one of the world's largest research centres in the field of social history. Services, collections, online catalogue.
http://www.iisg.nl/

National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives
A collection of anthropological materials, including manuscripts, field notes, photographs, correspondence, maps, sound recordings, film and video, dating to 1846, held at the National Museum of Natural History.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Documenting people of African descent around the world, concentrating on the Americas and the Caribbean. Includes manuscripts, sheet music and rare books, located in New York City.
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scm/marb.html

Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
A center for scholarly research on labor history and radical political movements.
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/

Texas Women's University: The Woman's Collections
Includes manuscripts, photographs, and periodicals on the history of American women, as well as the University Archives covering women's education in Texas, and an international cookbook collection.
http://www.twu.edu/library/wom/wm_index.htm

Victoria Women's Movement Archives
Collection documenting the history of women's movement groups in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
http://gateway.uvic.ca/archives/featured_collections/vwma/