BU Libraries Licenses Digital Archival Collections Related to American, Indigenous and New England Studies
BU Libraries recently licensed several digital archival collections related to American and New England Studies and specifically to Indigenous Studies. They can be discovered and accessed via BULS and the Databases A-Z list:
- Indigenous Peoples of North America Enabling exploration of the political, social, and cultural history of native peoples from the sixteenth century well into the twentieth century, Indigenous Peoples of North America illustrates the fabric of the North American story with unprecedented depth and breadth. Comprehensive yet personal, the collection covers the history of American Indian tribes and supporting organizations.
- Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive Consists of more than five million cross-searchable pages sourced from books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps from many different countries covering the history of the slave trade. The archive is not just valuable to researchers in African history, but the wider scope of African studies and African-American studies. The archive covers a wide spectrum of interests related to the history of slavery. Examples include:
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- Legal Issues
- The Caribbean
- The American South, race and the Civil War
- Children and women under slavery
- Modes of resistance
- Emancipation and life thereafter
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