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Resource TypesAffidavits: Sworn statements in writing; especially made upon oath before an authorized magistrate or officer.
Articles: Literary compositions prepared for publication as an independent portion of a journal, magazine, newspaper, encyclopedia, or other work.
Biographies: Written accounts of the lives of individuals.
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Manuscripts: Handwritten documents; may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the case of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
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Memoirs: Narratives or histories autobiographical in nature or stressing the author's personal experience of the events.
Memorandums: Documents recording information used for internal communication.
Minutes: Records of what was said and done at meetings or conferences.
Newsletters: Periodic reports on the activities of a business or organization.
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Oral Histories: Works that record interviews conducted to preserve the recollections of persons whose experience or memories are representative or are of special historical or social significance.
Pamphlets: Complete, non-periodical printed works generally of few pages, sometimes with a paper cover.
Periodicals: Publications issued at regular intervals of more than one day.
Photographs: Still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. It does not include reproductive prints of documents and technical drawings, for which descriptors found under "<reprographic copies>" are more appropriate. Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent.
Poetry: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed cogent imaginative awareness, associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses of a person and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms.
Policy Documents: A course of action or principles adopted or proposed by a government or an organization.
Posters: Notices intended to be posted to advertise, promote, or publicize an activity, cause, product, or service; also, decorative, mass-produced prints intended for hanging. For small printed notices or advertisements see circulars.
Press Releases: Official or authoritative statements giving information for publication in newspapers or periodicals.
Proceedings: Records of meetings of a society, conference or other organization, usually published, and frequently accompanied by abstracts or reports of papers presented.
Programs: Brief outlines or explanations of the order to be pursued, criteria for participation, or the subjects embraced in a given event or endeavor. Includes lists of the features composing a dramatic or other performance, with the names of participants.
Records: Recorded information, regardless of medium, created, received, and maintained by an agency, institution, organization, or individual in pursuance of its legal obligations or in the transaction of business.
Reports: Documents containing presentations of facts or the record of some proceeding, investigation, or event.
Resolutions: Formal expressions of the opinion formed by some superior authority on matters referred to its decision and forwarded to inferior authorities for their instruction and government.
Sheet music: Music printed on unbound sheets of paper.
Speeches: Documents containing the text of any public address or talk.
Testimonies: Solemn declarations reduced to writing, usually made orally by a witness under oath in response to interrogation by a lawyer or authorized public official.
Theses: Discourses advancing an original point of view as a result of research, especially as a requirement for an academic degree.
Transcripts: Copies transcribed from an original text or document and also for written records of words originally spoken, such as of court proceedings, broadcasts, or oral histories.
Struggles for Freedom TopicsTopics in ‘Struggles for Freedom’ were identified and grouped by a panel of subject experts.
Topic areas are grouped into five major areas: ‘The Colonial System and Its Consequences’, ‘Popular Resistance’, ‘Anti-Colonial Organizations’, ‘Regional and International Contexts’, and ‘Wars of Liberation’, ‘Internal Conflicts, And Destabilization’. Within each of these five major topics, there are between seven and thirteen sub-topics, for a total of 55 topics.
Within ‘Struggles for Freedom’, the major areas and related topics are:
The Colonial System and Its Consequences
Imposition of Colonial Rule
Ideologies
Political Systems
Economic Systems
Judicial Systems
Forced Removals
Social Impact
Religious Impact
Cultural Impact
Educational Impact
Regime Adaptations
Critical Events and Conjunctures
Popular Resistance
Rural Resistance
Urban Resistance
Women and Resistance
Youth, Student, and Teacher Opposition
Workers' Struggles
Religious Resistance
Cultural Resistance
Intellectual Opposition
White Opposition
Critical Events and Conjunctures
Anti-Colonial Organizations
Political Organizations
Nationalist Alliances
Exile Politics and Strategies
Prison Politics
Recurring Debates
Internal Conflicts
Critical Events and Conjunctures
Regional and International Contexts
Global
Africa
Southern Africa
North America
Latin America and Caribbean
Western Europe
Nordic Countries
Eastern Europe and (Former) Soviet Union
Middle East
South and Southeast Asia
East Asia
Australia and New Zealand
Critical Events and Conjunctures
Wars of Liberation, Internal Conflicts, and Destabilization
Guerrilla Campaigns
Counter-insurgency Efforts
Regional Alliances
Regime Destabilization
Contested Accounts and Interpretations
Internal Conflicts
Peace Processes
Critical Events and Conjunctures