Research Guides: HIST 2600: Violence in the United States, 1860-Present: Digital Collections

Digital Media Collections

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
This resource provides high quality streaming videos about a range of subjects. The videos include award winning documentaries plus interviews, training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
PBS Video Collection (in Films on Demand) This link opens in a new window
A collection of high-quality documentary and educational video programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation.
Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is a multi-disciplinary collection of documentary and educational films that have been assigned to courses for in-class instruction and out-of-class assignments.

Accessible Archives This link opens in a new window
19th Century African American newspapers, American County Histories to 1900, American Civil War Primary Sources, and more.

American Memory (Library of Congress)
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Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience
Documenting the American South
Primary source materials relating to Southern history. Open access.
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A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Includes: First-Person Narratives of the American South; Library of Southern Literature; North American Slave Narratives; The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865; The Church in the Southern Black Community.

Greensboro Massacre, 1979: Shootout between the American Nazis and the Communist Workers Party This link opens in a new window
Collection of documents from FBI, local and state police, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the Civill Rights Division of the Justice Department relating to the shootout and the aftermath.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
Colonial to 1950 - includes the experiences of 632 women as revealed in diaries and letters.

North Carolina Digital Collections
contain historic and recent photographs, state government publications, manuscripts, and other resources on topics related to North Carolina
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Collections bring together content from the Archives and Library of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources

We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961 This link opens in a new window
A civil rights group's mission - and the FBI's coverage of it - provide a perspective into American politics and society through surveillance reports, chronologies, witness statements and more.

Living Charlotte: The Postwar Development of a New South City, 1944-1987
Partnering with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library’s Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room, J. Murrey Atkins Library is leading Living Charlotte, a project to digitize audio oral history recordings, municipal city planning and development documents, and the personal and legal papers of key individuals in the civil rights and desegregation movements.