History

Collection of documents, images, and interviews from West Africa.

Primary sources that include 3,000 slides, 500 photos, and 50 hours of sounds from 45 African countries.

Images of posters, from Africa and beyond, that deal with antiapartheid and anticolonial struggles.

Online collection of more than 2,000 maps than span the period from 1478 to the 20th century.

Images and objects related to lifestyle and focused on west Africa.

Periodicals and many other types of anti-apartheid documents from the years 1960 to 1994.

Forty-six first-person accounts of slavery and African life from 1682 to 1937.

Photos of artwork from the Igbo-speaking regions of southeastern Nigeria during the 1930s.

This site features more than 50 letters from freed American slaves living in 19th-century Liberia to their former masters and associates in Virginia.

Photos, artifacts, textiles than range from the colonial to the modern eras. Many virtual exhibitions are available.