Social History

Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives - A center for scholarly research on labor history and radical political movements.
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/

African American Collections - This collection draws upon church minute meetings, extension bulletins, personal papers, photographs, and oral histories to document the history of blacks in Alabama. Some documents may be viewed online.
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/afam.htm

Texas Women's University: The Woman's Collections - Includes manuscripts, photographs, and periodicals on the history of American women, as well as the University Archives covering women's education in Texas, and an international cookbook collection.
http://www.twu.edu/library/wom/wm_index.htm

National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives - A collection of anthropological materials, including manuscripts, field notes, photographs, correspondence, maps, sound recordings, film and video, dating to 1846, held at the National Museum of Natural History.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/

The Amistad Research Center - Art and manuscripts charting African-American history and race rlations, located at Tulane University. Includes a digital photograph collection.
http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/

International Institute of Social History - Based in the Netherlands, it is one of the world's largest research centres in the field of social history. Services, collections, online catalogue.
http://www.iisg.nl/

American Life Histories - Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940, deposited in the Library of Congress Manuscripts Division. The collection can be viewed online.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Documenting people of African descent around the world, concentrating on the Americas and the Caribbean. Includes manuscripts, sheet music and rare books, located in New York City.
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scm/marb.html

Victoria Women's Movement Archives - Collection documenting the history of women's movement groups in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
http://gateway.uvic.ca/archives/featured_collections/vwma/

Florida Atlantic University Judaica Sound Archives - Dedicated to rescuing, preserving and sharing Jewish voices and music from the past. Search the archives and listen to their recordings here.
http://faujsa.fau.edu/

The Education and Research Institute - Washington-based organization with an archive of formerly top-secret FBI files obtained via FOIA. List of holdings. Searchable finding aid for the 26,000+ page Silvermaster file.
http://education-research.org/

Archives of Women in Science and Engineering - Includes personal papers of women scientists and engineers and the records of related organizations, held at Iowa State University.
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html

Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts - Microfilm copies of 90% of known Hebrew manuscripts, held in Jerusalem.
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/imhm/

American Jewish Archives - The Jacob Rader Marcus Center at Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, Ohio documents Jewish life in the United States. It includes manuscripts, photographs, tapes, microfilm, and genealogical materials.
http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/index.html

The American Jewish Historical Society Archives - About 1,000 collections of personal papers and institutional records related to Jewish life in the Americas.
http://www.ajhs.org/reference/archives.cfm

Black Archives of Mid-America - Documents African-Americans in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Oklahoma, including diaries, newspapers, records and oral histories. In Kansas City, Missouri.
http://www.blackarchives.org/