Africana Studies

Gain access to rare primary source documents with these topically focused digital collections. Supports academic research. 
 Note: Several additional modules added in 2025 within Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Latin American & Caribbean Studies.

A collection of digitized maps, manuscripts, books, pamphlets and paintings related to exploration, imperialism, and decolonization from archives around the world.
Note: This collection is owned in perpetuity by Davidson College.

Periodicals by and about African Americans; includes magazines, academic and political journals, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, and more.

Includes full-text coverage of US newspapers listed below, with the earliest starting in the late 19th century and many continuing through the 20th century.

British Government documents from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion, and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices.

Note: This collection is owned in perpetuity by Davidson College.

Documenting missionary work from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, the periodicals include news, journals and reports on global missions and cultural encounters.

Note: This collection is owned in perpetuity by Davidson College.

British Government documents, including diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, investigative reports, treaties, and more, useful for research on historical, political, social, and economic topics.

Note: This collection is owned in perpetuity by Davidson College.
 

As the official record of the proceedings, debates, and activities of Congress, the Record is a substantially verbatim account of all discussion occurring on the floor of Congress.