Databases
- African Newspapers Series I (Readex/Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowCovers about 1800-1922. This collection of historical African newspapers provides coverage of the people, cultures, issues and events that shaped the continent. Themes include the first world war, Zulu Wars, settler colonialism and the rejection of Western imperialism.
- Empire Online (Adam Matthew Digital) This link opens in a new windowOriginal primary source documents relating to Empire Studies, including decolonization, from libraries and archives around the world. Diaries, images, letters, records.
- International Historical Statistics (Palgrave Connect) This link opens in a new windowStatistical data from around the world, covering a wide range of socio-economic topics.
- International African Bibliography (deGruyter) This link opens in a new windowA highly curated list of books, articles, and dissertations on topics in African studies. International in scope, updated quarterly.
Websites
- 16th-Early 20th Century Maps of Africa(Northwestern University)
- Abolition of the Slave Trade(Schomberg Center, New York Public Library)
- Africa FocusUniversity of Wisconsin
- African Activists Archive Project(Michigan State University)
- African Government Web Archive (Library of Congress)The African Government Web Archive provides links to information from key African government ministries, institutions and organizations for the 51 countries in Africa south of the Sahara.
- African Online Digital Library(Michigan State University)
- African Studies CenterUniversity of Pennsylvania
- Ancient Egypt(University of Pennsylvania)
- Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Archive(University of Virginia)
- Basel Mission Image Archive(University of Southern California)
- Empire through the LensBritish Empire/Commonwealth Museum
- Giza Archives(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- Histoire de la Colonisation Belge du Congo(CoBelCo Belgium)
- Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs(Northwestern University)
- Memoria de Africa(Universidade de Aviero)
- North Africa and Middle Eastern NewspapersFrom the Ottoman Empire to the Arab Spring, the countries of the Middle East and North Africa have stood at the crossroads of history. The Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection includes publications from across this dynamic region.
- Slave Voyages(Emery University)
- Tropenmuseum(Royal Tropical Institute: Amsterdam)
- UNESCO Routes of Enslaved PeopleLaunched in 1994, the United Nations looks at the slave trade and slavery in the 21st century as crimes against humanity