Search and browse all of the University Archives and Special Collections department's digital collections. Below are links to digitized selections of materials from our most frequently used collections for archival instruction.
Boston School Desegregation
W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. chambers papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case
Mosaic records and publication
Thompson Island
Thompson Island collection: Documents and photographs
Thompson Island collection: Beacon (student newspaper)
UMass Boston History
University historic photographs
University historic documents
University commencement programs
Interviews and Oral Histories
Disappeared Children in Argentina: Rita Arditti’s Interviews with Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo
From Confinement to College: Video Oral Histories of Japanese American Students in World War II
Robert C. Hayden interviews with Boston African American railroad workers
For additional access to digital primary source materials, consider searching the following free online resources with keywords related to your research topic:
Healey Library’s primary source databases
Digital Commonwealth
Digital Public Library of America
Europeana
HathiTrust
Indigenous Digital Collections
Internet Archive
World Digital Library
Freely Accessible Digital Resources for History, Public History, and Archives Research (compiled by Jessica Colati, Director of the History & Archives Track at UMass Boston)