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National Liberation Primary Sources

ALL COUNTRIES

Primary Source Collections:

World History in Context Database (password oak30216)

  • Search your country or leader of the independence movement
  • Click "Primary Sources"

National Archives Catalog

  • Try searching: country name Independence 
    • For example: Congo independence
  • Try searching for the primary leader of the independence movement
    • For example:  Ho Chi Minh
  • Select "Available Online" at the top of the search results.
  • Use filters on the left to refine your results.

Wilson Center Non-aligned Movement Collection

  • This collection includes documents concerning the anti-colonial movement.

Bandung Conference - University of Luxembourg

  • This collection includes documents regarding one of the first large-scale conferences of Afro-Asian countries, most of which were newly liberated.

Historical Periodicals

Highly influential Black newspaper during the early to mid twentieth century
Access to articles from 1905-1975

 

Chicago Tribune 1849-1994
Wall Street Journal 1889-2000
Washington Post 1877-2001

1851 - present; TimesMachine 1851-2002

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