History (Pacific Northwest)

Nearly 19,000 streaming films on all topics.

This site provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics.

First hand accounts, photographs and other resources related to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Search this UW resource on the history of labor and civil rights movements in the Northwest. Includes oral history videos, photographs, newspaper articles, and historical essays.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services' Digital Collections and Content (DCC) "brings together cultural heritage collections and exhibits from libraries, museums, and archives from across the country."

This Washington State Archives oral history project which focuses on the Black community in Seattle and King County. These 69 interviews were conducted by Esther Hall Mumford in 1975 and 1976, and include audio, transcripts, and negatives. Transcriptions were created shortly after the interviews took place. Negatives can include portraits of interviewees, as well as images taken of photographs, clippings, and other items belonging to or relating to interviewees.