Collections

The ESFL currently holds books, journals, records, original works of art, and posters. See the wide focus listed below left. Video introductions are below center:

CATEGORIES

Labor and working-class history and literature

U.S. immigration history

African American and African diasporic history

Asian American and Asian history

Political-economic history, U.S. and global

Women’s history and feminism(s)

Political philosophy

Jazz and radical music history

Historical methods and historiography, including oral history

COLLECTIONS

Hmong  Archives a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit located inside the East Side Freedom Library

DONATED COLLECTIONS

Hy Berman

Donna Gabaccia/ Jeffrey Pilcher

Fred Ho

Ben Mchie

David Montgomery

Paula Rabinowitz

Toni Randolph

Peter Rachleff

David Roediger

Sal Salerno

Naomi Scheman

Twin Cities Japanese American Citizens League

Matt Witt

-To come:

Ray Tricomo

Dexter Arnold

Culture (Gretchen Lang)

Beth Cleary

Leota Lawrence

Gary Kennedy

Steve Dombrosk

Young People’s Archive