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Featured Archive

African Politics Web Archive
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Created by: Stanford University Library
Sites: 88
Oldest site: 12/05/08
Most recent site: 11/23/12
Description: The African Politics Web Archive seeks to preserve web sites for future generations as traditional libraries preserve books, journals, newspapers and other materials. Presidential election web sites generally last only a few months on the web and then disappear. Web sites archived appear in th...  more >
At-a-glance

57 public archives
21 partners
4940 web sites
664,859,409 documents
34.9 TB of data



The Archives

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2003 California Recall Election
2007 Southern California Wildfires Web Archive
2009 H1N1 Influenza A (Swine Flu) Outbreak
2010 Winter Olympics
AFL-CIO - Change to Win: the open web archive
African Politics Web Archive
Alternative Mass Media / News Web Sites Web Archive
Anarchism Web Archive
Animal Rights
Arts and Cultural Left Web Archive
California Aggie, UC Davis Student Newspaper
California Political Blogs
California State Government: .ca.gov Web Archive
California Tobacco Control Web Archive
California Water Districts Web Archive
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Web Archive
Communism, Socialism, Trotskyism Web Archive
Economic and Social Justice Web Archive
Education and Student Movements Web Archive
Electoral Politics and Parties / Political Action (U.S. Left) Web Archive
Environmentalism / Green Movement Web Archive
Federal Regional Agencies in California Web Archive
Feminism and Women's Movements Web Archive
Grateful Dead Web Archive
Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp & War Crimes (U.S.) Web Archive
Housing Web Archive
International Development Organizations Web Archive
Jewish American Progressive & Left Activity Web Archive
Labor Unions and Organizations (U.S.) Web Archive
Los Angeles Local Government Web Archive
Mexican Presidential Election 2012 web archive
Michigan Historical Collections Web Archives
Middle East Political Sites Project
Monterey Bay Area Local Government Web Archive
Myanmar Cyclone 2008 Web Archive
Northwestern University Web Archive
Occupy Web Archive
Orange County Government Information Web Archive
Other Left Activism Web Archive
Peace Movements Web Archive
Prisoners Rights and Political Prisoners Web Archive
Sacramento Region Local Governments Web Archive
Sacramento--San Joaquin River Delta Web Archive
Salvadoran Presidential Election March 2009 - Web Archive
San Diego Local Governments Web Archive
Santa Barbara Government Information Web Archive
Santa Cruz Mountains Wildfire Web Archive
Synapse, the UCSF Newspaper
Tobacco Industry Web Archive
UC Merced University Archives
UCLA Online Campaign Literature Web Archive
UCOP Web Archive - prior to Nov. 2012 redesign
University of Arkansas Web Archives
University of Michigan Web Archives
USDA Economic Research Service
USDA ERS Publications
Web at Risk Wiki Archive
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