Contemporary (1950 CE - Present)
New York Public Library Digital Collections
The NYPL Digital Collection provides access to over 755,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities, including illuminated manuscripts, vintage posters, illustrated books, and printed ephemera.
Imperialism in North Africa: Interview, Tewhida Ben Sheikh
Tewhida Ben Sheikh [1909-2010] was the first North African Muslim woman to earn a medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, in 1936, while Tunisia was still under colonial rule.
Imperialism in North Africa: Autobiography, Fadhma Amrouche
Fadhma Amrouche was the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished, illiterate Berber peasant woman.
In Motion: The African-American Migration Project
In Motion: The African-American Migration Project portrays the history of 13 defining migrations that formed and transformed African Americans from the 16th century to the present.
Children in Urban America
Children in Urban America (CUAP), focuses on children and childhood primarily in the greater Milwaukee area from 1850 to 2000.
The Interrelation of Colour
By 1969, international public opinion had begun to turn against the apartheid policies of the white minority regime in South Africa.
Scouting – Helping to Prepare Leaders of Tomorrow
Jeremiah (J.J.M.) Nyagah was one of the most senior African members of the Kenya Boy Scout Association during the colonial era. Trained as a teacher, after independence he entered politics and became a cabinet minister in Jomo Kenyatta's government.
Puerto Rican Labor Movement: Official Document, Sterilization
Thirty years after Mrs. Roosevelt visited the island of Puerto Rico, working women were still subject to exploitation in the industrial setting—in particular, to coerced sterilization.
Holocaust Girls/Closet
This short story by fiction writer, S.L. Wisenberg, sheds light on the influence of Anne Frank on the imagination and identity of Jewish girls growing up in postwar America.
