Library Databases

Subject terms: African Americans, African American—Biography, African American—History, Afro-American, Black History, Blacks, Black History Timeline, Black Studies, etc.

Specific topics: Civil war and Blacks, African Americans and Economics— History, U.S. Race Relations, Slavery, NAACP, minority and ethnic groups, Harriet Tubman, etc.

• Academic Search Premier
  Full text article database
  
  
• Ethnic News Watch
  Full text article database
  

• JStor
  Search a selection of scholarly journals, with full text available
  
  
• Project Muse
  Full text articles from 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals
  

• ProQuest
  Full text article database including newspapers and magazines. Check off "Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed" if you do not want newspaper articles included.
  

• Wilson OmniFile Full Text
  Full Text database

• Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African American Experience. Edited by Kwame Anthony
  REF DT 14.A37435 2005

• African American Lives. Edited by Henry Louis Gates
  REF E185.96. A446 2004

• Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. General editor, Jack Salzman
  REF 185.E54 1996

• The Harvard Guide to African American History by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
  REF E 185.H326 2001

• Historical Statistics of Black America. Vols.1 & 2 by Jessie Carney Smith
  REF E185.H543 1995

• The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference by Jessie Carney Smith
  REF E185.N57 1999

• The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  E185.96.G38 2000

• The Birth of Black America: the First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown by Tim Hashaw
  F234. J3 H295 2007

• Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy by Nikhil Pal Singh
  E185.61.S6144 2004

• Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste by Mark S. Weiner
  KF4757 .W45 2004

• Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present by Nell Irvin Painter
  E185. P15 2006

• Critical Reflections on Black History by W.D. Wright
  E 184.65.W77 2002

• History in Black: African Americans in Search of an Ancient Past by Yaacov Shavit
  E 184.65.S5 2001

• The Negro by W.E.B. DuBois
  HT 1581.D8 2001

• Passages to Freedom: the Underground Railroad in History and Memory. Edited by David W. Blight
  E 450. P 27 2004

• Reconstruction After the Civil War by John Hope Franklin
  E668.F7 1994

• The Routledge Atlas of African American History by Jonathan Earle
  E 185. E125 2000

• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
  E 185.5.D817 2004

• This is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s by Gerald L. Early
  E185.615. E16 2003

• The Two Reconstructions: the Struggle for Black Enfranchisement by Richard M . Valley
  JK 1924. V35 2004

• African Diaspora in the Americas Collection [VHS]. In Spanish with English subtitles
  F3021.B55 37 2002
  
  
• Americana, Historical Spotlights in Story and Song [Sound recording]: by Myrtis Mixon
  PE 1127. H5 M55 1995
  
  
• The Best of Harry Belafonte's The Long Road to Freedom [Sound recording]: An anthology of black music by Harry Belafonte
  M1627. B47 2001
  
  
• Citizen King [DVD].
  E185.97.K5 C58 2004
  
  
• Eyes on the Prize America's Civil Rights Years (6 parts)
  E185.615. E94 1999
  
  
• Glory
  PN 1995.9.H5 G5 2000
  
  
• A History of Black Achievement in America.
  E185.H57 2005
  
  
• Lyndon B. Johnson: Decisions that Shook the World.
  E847.L96 2005
  
  
• Roots [DVD]
  E185.97. H23 R66 2002
  
  
• The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till [DVD]
  E185.6. 58 2005
  
  
• Voices of Civil Rights [DVD]
  E185.61.C5855 2006 v. 1 & 2
  
  
• Voices of the Civil Rights Movement [Sound recording]: Black American Freedom Songs, 1960-1966
  M1997. C47 V65 1997

• African American History
  
  
• African American History, Black History and the Civil Rights Movement
  
  
• African American Mosaic
  Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
  
  
• African American Studies Links
  
  
• African American Studies Resources from Columbia University
  
  
• Amistad Research Center
  
  
• Association for the Study of African American Life and History
  
  
• Black Resource Center
  A C Bilbrew Library, County of Los Angeles
  
  
• Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to Black History
  
  
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  
  
• Time Line of African American History
  
  
• Underground Railroad by National Geographic
  
  
• Western States Black Research and Education Center

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