Documents include manuscripts, an extensive collection of artwork, including rare American Indian Ledger Art, diaries, correspondence, treaties, maps, and photographs.

Includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe, as well as often overlooked and hard-to-find newsletters and NGO research reports, plus ephemeral literature from leading research institutes and grass roots organizations that is rarely indexed or cataloged.

The collection is especially rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature.

The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.

This source highlights the impact of invasion and colonization on Indigenous Peoples in North America, and the intersection of Indigenous and European histories and systems of knowledge through the use of manuscripts, monographs, newspapers, photographs, motion pictures, images of artwork, and more.

An archive of digitized primary documents focus on the history of Latin America and the Caribbean back to the early 1800s through the contemporary period sourced from collections in the United States and abroad.

The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.