Amplify diverse voices with inclusive content

Black Studies

• Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements unearths untold stories of civil rights activism, highlighting everyday citizens’ contributions and expanding historical narratives.
• The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Collection features more than 2,000 images, ranging from 19th-century African photography to 20th-century protest movements.
• The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture Collection presents close to 2,500 images documenting Black history and culture through art, artifacts, fashion, music, correspondence, and ephemera.
• Tuskegee University’s Hidden Audio Collections, 1957-1971 preserve voices of key figures and organizations that were instrumental in promoting the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Women’s and Gender Studies

• The Feminist Collection (Part of Independent Voices) features more than 75 activist-created publications that helped drive second-wave feminism from the late 1960s through the 20th century.
• Women’s Suffrage and Equal Rights Collection documents the American women’s suffrage movement, focusing on the period surrounding the ratification of the 19th amendment.
• The Famous and Forgotten Women of STEM illuminates groundbreaking contributions by women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
• Gender Studies: Foundations and Key Concepts traces the field’s development and its interdisciplinary tools for understanding our world.

Latin American and Latinx Studies

• The Diego Rivera Collection (Detroit Institute of Arts) features 1,000 works, including preparatory sketches that reveal the artist’s creative process.
• Cuban Heritage Collection (University of Miami Libraries) presents black-and-white photographs documenting Cuban life, architecture, and culture from the 1900s through the 1930s.
• The Jacqueline Barnitz Collection (University of Texas at Austin) presents 4,700 images of modern art from Mexico and other Caribbean, Central, and South American countries.
• El Colegio de México offers nearly 700 open access monographs in the humanities and social sciences, expanding access to Latin American scholarship.
• Chicanx Studies: A Foundational Reading List explores the field’s evolution through analyses of racialization, gender, sexuality, Indigeneity, and trans-ethnic identity.

Asian and Asian Diaspora Studies

• South Asia Open Archives provide access to vital primary sources documenting South Asian history, culture, and society.
• The Asian Art Photographic Distribution Collection (University of Michigan) features approximately 9,600 images spanning Chinese, Japanese, and Central Asian art traditions.
• The Ancient East Asian Maps Collection (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) preserves ancient East Asian cultural heritage through 38 historical maps, manuscripts, woodblock prints, and rubbings.
• JSTOR Daily articles on Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage explore the history and cultures of Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Hawaiian, and South Asian descent.

Native American and Indigenous Studies

• The Native American Art and Culture Collection (National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution) presents nearly 12,000 images that document Native American history and shape our understanding of these peoples.
• The Szwedzicki Portfolios: Native American Fine Art and American Visual Culture 1917-1952 (University of Cincinnati) showcases original works by 20th-century Native American artists.
• The Native American Publication Collection preserves Michigan’s Indigenous history through digitized newsletters, event posters, flyers, and community materials.
• JSTOR Daily articles on Indigenous Studies honor Indigenous cultures while examining historical misconceptions and systemic challenges faced by Native peoples.

LGBTQ+ Studies

• The LGBT Collection (Part of Independent Voices) features 25 publications that document the emergence of gay and lesbian movements in 1970s America.
• JSTOR Daily articles on LGBTQ+ History explore a range of topics from transgender legal battles to cultural histories, illuminating LGBTQ+ community experiences.
• Teaching LGBTQ+ History: Queer Women’s Experiences in Prison provides an instructional guide that brings an intersectional framework to LGBTQ+ historical studies.
• Queer Literature from North Africa and the Maghreb: A Reading List examines works that explore themes of queerness, identity, and resistance.

Disability Studies

• Disability Studies: Foundations & Key Concepts introduces key debates and conceptual shifts that have shaped this dynamic field.
• JSTOR Daily articles on Disability Studies examine disability through academic scholarship, exploring disability rights activism, cultural representation, policy evolution, and lived experiences throughout history.
• The HIV, AIDS & the Arts Collection preserves artistic responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis through visual, literary, and performing arts created by marginalized artists.

Social Movements and Activism

• Independent Voices preserves alternative press publications from the 1960s-1980s, capturing the radical voices of feminists, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, and LGBT communities.
• Student Activism traces the history of student organizing in the U.S., documenting how student activists have shaped American higher education and continue to drive change.

Carceral Studies

• American Prison Newspapers, 1800s-present: Voices from the Inside brings together 700 prison newspapers, offering authentic perspectives on life inside U.S. prisons.
• Mass Incarceration: A Syllabus focuses on prison and mass incarceration in the U.S., which has the highest rate of imprisonment in the world.
• Prisoners’ Rights: An Introductory Reading List provides essential readings and visual materials to foster classroom dialogue about prisoners’ rights and justice system reform.

Image credits: 1. Marvin Garson, Jim Eilers, Paul Glusman, Huntley Barad, Marjorie Heins, Glibert Johnson, Jeanie Darlington, Catherine, and Max Goldcrab. San Francisco Good Times 2, no. 18 (May 7, 1969). 2. Charles Warren Woodward. A Stereograph of Howard University in the Late 19th Century. Late 19th century. Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. 3. Postcard from Alice Park to Miss S.J. Eddy. June 23, 1909. Claremont Colleges Digital Library. 4. Diego Rivera. Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda. 1947-48. Detroit Institute of Arts. 5. Tangdai. Ageless Autumn Hills. 1733. Asian Art Photographic Distribution Project (AAPD), University of Michigan. 6. Stephen Mopope. Pochoir Print of Stephen Mopope Drawing of Squaw Dance. 1929. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. 7. James Colton, Cyril Peters, Marcel Martin, and Marilyn Barrow. “Tangents.” Tangents 2, no. 3 (December 1, 1966). 8. The A.I.D.S. Show, 1984-2001, Item 002. January 1, 1984. The A.I.D.S. Show, 1984-2001. GLBT Historical Society. HIV, AIDS & the Arts. Reveal Digital. 9. Bob Haskell and Jeff Strout. “500 march with Coalition to show their support.” The Maine Campus. May 15, 1969, Number 29, Vol. LXXII. 10. American Prison Newspapers, 1800s-present: Voices from the Inside.