Image Collections
- ARTstor This link opens in a new window
ARTstor is a database of images from museums, artists, libraries, colleges and universities, scholars, private collections, and photo archives available for teaching, education, and scholarship, with all images cleared for educational use.
- Chicago Defender (1910 - 1975) This link opens in a new window
Full-page images and article images (PDF) with searchable full text from the African American newspaper Chicago Defender under all its title variants.
- Associated Press Images Collection This link opens in a new window
Associated Press Images Collection is a searchable collection of recent and historical photos from the Associated Press, plus AP graphics, articles, and brief sound clips.
Films & DVDs
Streaming Audio & Film
- HistoryMakers: African American Video Oral History Collection This link opens in a new windowHistoryMakers is a collection of video oral history interviews with historically significant African Americans. Transcripts are included with the interviews.
- "Boston University" in HistoryMakersAn automatically filtered collection of video content related to Boston University.
Krasker Film/Video Services
Krasker Film/Video Services provides instructional media for university classes. Krasker is located on the basement level of Mugar Memorial Library.
- You can find all of our films titles by using BU Libraries Search
- Collection materials are considered Reserve items
- The previewing room is equipped to screen all formats in the collection: DVD, Blu-ray, VHS, and Laser Disc. 16mm film can be viewed during open hours
Selected DVD Titles
- African-American LivesHarvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. interviews prominent individuals including Boston University faculty members, Linda Heywood and John Thornton.
- Tony Morrison: The Pieces I AmAn artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio, to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history, and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.
- American Experience: The AbolitionistsAmerican Experience" takes a three-part look at the men and women who fought--first peaceably, and then by more forceful means--to destroy the "peculiar institution" of slavery that once plagued America.
