Academic Video Online (AVON) is a video streaming platform providing on demand access to over 80,000 videos spanning a wide range of subject areas, including documentaries, instructional videos, clinical videos, news, and artistic performances.

Archive includes primary sources published in the United States, England, France, Haiti, and the Netherlands. Content includes church attitudes toward slavery, census data, correspondence, plantation records, opinion writings on Indigenous Americans and women, legal documents, and maps. Archival sources largely focus on slavery in the United States. Includes bibliographies of slavery and abolition in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers Parts 1 & 2 provides access to the records of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) national office, covering the years from before the ACLU’s official founding in 1920 through the 20th century. The Southern Regional Office Files, 1945 to 1990, includes memos, court documents, publications, newspaper clippings, and bills.

Over 2,000 streaming films with a focus on environmental studies and sciences, sociology, anthropology, global studies, area studies, women’s studies, history, political science, criminal justice, health, psychology, the arts, and more. Features: perpetual access; closed captions, subtitles, or no dialog for 99% of the collection; clip, citation, and playlist tools; searchable, interactive transcripts. Producers: Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, other independent filmmakers, and more.

Kanopy provides streaming access to educational videos from producers including Criterion Collection, PBS, Great Courses, Kino Lorber, BBC, A&E, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, National Geographic, and others. Only videos currently licensed by UCSB Library will be listed after UCSB patrons are authenticated.

This database includes the official history of every American territory before it became an American state. Records include primary source documents such as official correspondence with Washington, Native American negotiations and treaties, military records, judicial proceedings, population data, financial statistics, land records, newspaper clippings, and more. The four series of records are largely from the official records of the Departments of State and the Interior.

The Rafu Shimpo (羅府新報, L.A. Japanese Daily News) is the longest running Japanese American newspaper in the United States. The paper began in 1903 supporting the small but growing Japanese community in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, California.

Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations across California.

The Online Archive of California is a collaborative project to create a searchable online union database of finding aids to archival collections. This database includes the finding aids to repositories from 40 institutions statewide, including all nine UC campuses and is continuing to expand. A small but increasing number of the finding aids contain links to online digital versions of the source material. Finding aids are inventories, registers, indexes or guides to collections held by archives and manuscript repositories, libraries, and museums.

A historical archive of the newspaper, Los Angeles Sentinel. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

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