African American Student Project
Database – African American Student Project University of Michigan resource covering 1853-1970 which documents and maps black students enrolled at the university. It is searchable by year subject and name. There are also interesting infographics showing where the students lived, data on statistics for enrolment by year and for male and female students .
Getty Images: Black History and Culture
Black History and Culture Collection – Getty Images Getty images is developing a database relating to photographic images of the black experience in the USA and UK. It is currently being offered free of charge for online viewing but may become more commercial in the future. Consult the site for advice on copyright and rights. Click on preview to […]
Watergate digital records
From the US National Archives and Records Administration To mark the 50th anniversary of the break-in on June 17, 1972 which led eventually led to the resignation of American President Richard Nixon a new website has been created where you can browse evidence from the Watergate trial. They Include images of telephone taps, photographs of accused. […]
Delta Airlines digital archive
Recently made available via the Digital Library of Georgia. This business and aviation history archive includes annual reports including those with merged companies, timetables tracking the growth of travel from 1925 onwards. Search by keyword or browse by subject.
Slavery: Primary Sources
Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation and Freedom Primary Sources from Houghton Library Houghton Library, Harvard University’s largest rare books and manuscripts repository, is home to hundreds of thousands of materials relating to African American history in North America. This wonderful website is being developed to provide free access to a range of digitised primary source items – manuscripts, photos, […]
Advertising labels of fruit and vegetables
From The Lug and Can Label Collection, which is part of the UC Davis library’s Archives and Special Collections. You can view more than 4,800 colourful 20th century labels from American fruit and vegetable cans and containers. Great for students of economic and advertising history.
The U.S. Media Index database
Find out who owns what. Compiled by the Future of Media Project the index details the 176 parent companies of daily news outlets. The emerging non-profit media and donors Index lists 231 non-profit news outlets and who funds them; and an index of the seven owners of daily newspapers is categorized by state.
The impact of online misinformation on U.S. COVID-19 vaccinations
Paper from arxiv with the following findings: consistently, negative opinions toward vaccines are correlated with misinformation. These results suggest that addressing online misinformation must be a key component of interventions aimed to maximize the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns.
Women in Congress 1917 – 2020
The latest edition of this factual reference book from the US Government includes total numbers and names of women in Congress and their roles. Previous editions are also available via the website.
Trump Twitter archive
Trump Twitter archive has stored tweets from September 2016 until the account was suspended in January 2020. Items can be downloaded in csv files.
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