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As a part of the Universities Studying Slavery consortium, The 1856 Project investigates and documents UMD's historical connections to slavery and aims to build an inclusive university community by enhancing the collective understanding of the Black experience at UMD.

UMD Discover searches almost all of the library’s collections and beyond in one simple search. Find books and e-books, videos, articles, digital media, and more from our local collections and University System of Maryland collections.

The Libraries joins the College of Arts and Humanities as partners to advance the Douglass Center’s mission to engage diverse communities around issues of social justice and equity and cultivate leaders with values rooted in the humanities.
 

Through UMD Libraries, students, faculty, and staff have free access to a digital subscription to the New York Times, including news from NYTimes.com, The New York Times in Higher Education site, and Cooking and Games.

PowerPoint was the first and only live program to focus attention on issues and information of concern to African American listeners using the popular interactive, call-in format. The show, based in Atlanta, aired weekly on Sunday evenings and was on the air for seven years.

The University Archives collect and care for numerous collections that reflect the efforts of UMD students to challenge and change the status quo. A new gallery exhibition, Rising Up: 100 Years of Student Activism For Justice and Civil Rights at the University of Maryland, shares this history with you.

Recently explored by a group of students who created their own podcast about “forgotten feminists”, Off Our Backs is a feminist news journal that pushed boundaries and shared resources for decades.