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  • Reveal Digital Independent Voices

    Reveal Digital Independent Voices

    Collection of magazines, journals, and newspapers of the alternative press from the 1960s, including feminists, anti-war groups, African-Americans, Native-Americans and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.

  • ABC CLIO eBook collection

    ABC CLIO eBook collection

    Full-text books in humanities, social sciences, gender studies, African American Studies, Latino Studies, and Native American Studies. Also contains the electronic version of The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, a fully searchable collection of over 4,000 interviews with former slaves.

  • Africa Bibliography

    Africa Bibliography

    Guide to works in African studies published under the auspices of the International African Institute.

  • African American Biographical Database

    African American Biographical Database

    Biographical profiles & extended narratives of African-Americans from all walks of life. Many profiles include photographs & illustrations, and there is a rich collection of full-text African-American reference works.

  • African American Communities

    African American Communities

    Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.

  • African American Experience

    African American Experience

    Full-text digital resource exploring African American life and culture. Targeted and thematic search options are featured to find articles, documents, images, and more.

  • African American Heritage

    African American Heritage

    Primary sources devoted specifically to African American family history, including U.S Federal Census (African Americans only), Freedman's Bank Records, World War I Draft Cards, African American family history books, U.S. Colored Troops Records, vital records, church records, legal records, and more.

  • African American Historical Serials Collection

    African American Historical Serials Collection

    Includes newspapers, magazines, reports, and annuals from various African-American organizations including churches and educational and service institutions.

  • African American Music Reference

    African American Music Reference

    Brings together text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database will expand to include coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

  • African American Newspapers

    African American Newspapers

    Complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.

    1827-1882

  • African American Periodicals, 1825-1995

    African American Periodicals, 1825-1995

    Online collection of academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other diverse periodicals.

  • African American Poetry Database

    African American Poetry Database

    Contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

  • African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998

    African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998

    Full-text collection of African American newspapers printed across the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.

  • Afro-Americana Imprints 1535-1922

    Afro-Americana Imprints 1535-1922

    Full text of more than 12,000 printed works, including lesser known imprints published from the early 16th to the early 20th century.

  • Alternative and Underground Press: Popular Culture in Britain and America

    Alternative and Underground Press: Popular Culture in Britain and America

    Digital collection of Alternative and Underground Press publications focused on Vietnam, women's rights, sexual liberation and civil rights in Britain and America.

  • America: History and Life with Full Text

    America: History and Life with Full Text

    Indexes books and journal articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

    1954+

  • Annual Review of Political Science

    Annual Review of Political Science

    Comprehensive review of the literature in political science. Can help students identify major tends in the field as well as find general overviews of research in specific subject areas of politics.

  • Annual Review of Sociology

    Annual Review of Sociology

    Comprehensive review of the literature in sociology. Identifies major tends in the field as well as find general overviews of research in specific subject areas of sociology.

  • ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials

    ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials

    Citations and many full-text articles from religion and theology journals.

  • Atlanta Daily World (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

    Atlanta Daily World (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

    Database of newspaper articles from the Atlanta Daily World

  • Baltimore Afro-American (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

    Baltimore Afro-American (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

    Database of newspaper articles from the Baltimore Afro-American

     

  • Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving

    Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving

    Searchable database containing verified references (except as noted) to approximately 25,000 scholarly works in all academic disciplines and in all western European languages on slavery and slaving, worldwide and throughout human history, including modern times. It includes all known print materials published since 1900 in scholarly formats, as well as digital scholarly journals, recent unpublished presentations at academic conferences, professional historical sites, and major museum exhibitions and catalogs.

  • Black Abolitionist Papers

    Black Abolitionist Papers

    Primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865.

  • Black Drama Third Edition

    Black Drama Third Edition

    Full text of plays written by dramatists from Africa, the Caribbean, and North America, and detailed information about productions, theaters, production companies, and other ephemera related to the plays.

  • Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora

    Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora

    Full text of 760 stories and folktales by African, African American, and Caribbean authors.

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