Please explore these new resources we’re trying out, and share your feedback with Melanie Mambo ([email protected]). Trials will run for approximately 30 days.
Africa Commons
Comprised of four comprehensive modules:
- History and Culture is an index, search engine, and preservation tool for more than 500,000 openly available books, magazines, and other primary sources.
- Black South African Magazines the first and only digital collection of magazines created for Black audiences in Africa from 1937-1973.
- Southern African Films and Documentaries, hundreds of African documentaries, oral histories, and other films for study and learning.
- The Hilary Ng’weno Archive, an exclusive collection of full-run magazines, newspapers, and films from the legendary Kenyan journalist.
From AM Digital Primary Sources:
Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 From the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates of Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post- Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict these government documents inform the volatile situation in the region today.
China: Trade, Politics & Culture With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give an incredible insight into the changes in China during this period.
Global Commodities This resource focuses on the following fifteen significant commodities whose stories are often intertwined: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, oil, opium, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest.