The Densho collection features objects relating to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during the WW II. The collection includes testimony of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated, in the form of first hand video accounts, images, documents and news articles. “Densho,” is a Japanese word that means ‘to pass on to the next generation.’ Densho is […]
SiRO is excited to present the collection on the American Indian Movement that includes audio interviews and hearings, documents, photographs and ephemera from the 1970s-2000s. The American Indian Movement began in 1968 in Minnesota and sought self-determination by Native Americans and reclamation of their lands. AIM leaders included Native American community activists led by George […]
The Ted Sahl Collection is a selection of 1091 photographs from the original digital collection housed in San Jose State University Special Collections and Archives . Ted Sahl is an award winning photojournalist from San Jose who has documented social and political events in the Bay area since 1970s*. He is known for his engagement […]
We are pleased to announce the addition of three new collections of materials, which contribute to the diversity of radical movements represented in SiRO: The Modernist Journals Project, Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980 from Adam Matthew, and the Civil Rights Digital Library. Together these three collections consist of nearly 45,000 items, including photographs, interviews, news film, ephemera, […]
Studies in Radicalism Online added two new collections in October 2017, bringing the total number of federated items to 67,233. The University of Michigan’s Joseph A. Labadie Collection The University of Michigan’s Joseph A. Labadie Collection “document[s] the history of social protest movements and marginalized political communities from the 19th century to the present.” Digital items from […]
Read this article, by Liz Grumbach and Laura Mandell (both from the Advanced Research Consortium, or ARC, to which SiRO is federated), about the evolution of ARC and virtual research environments (VREs).
