JSTOR [Selected Articles in Full Text]This link opens in a new windowJSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. The moving wall represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from 3 and 5 years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
MLA International BibliographyThis link opens in a new windowIndex to journals, books, dictionaries, dissertations, and conference papers on literature, languages, folklore and linguistics. Includes critical writings on literature and human languages, including both naturallanguages and invented languages, e.g., Esperanto. Citations in a non-Roman alphabet are translated into the Roman alphabet.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998This link opens in a new windowAfrican American Newspapers provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection features papers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. Newly digitized, these newspapers published by or for African Americans are browseable and searchable.
African American Periodicals 1825-1995This link opens in a new windowFeatures more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports, and other genres.
Oxford African American Studies CenterThis link opens in a new windowComprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture, coupled with precise search and browse capabilities. Features over 7,500 articles from Oxford's reference works, approximately 100 primary sources with specially written commentaries, over 1,000 images, over 100 maps, over 200 charts and tables, timelines to guide researchers through the history of African Americans and over 6,000 biographies. The core content includes: Africana, which presents an account of the African and African American experience in five volumes the Encyclopedia of African American history Black women in America, 2nd ed and the African American national biography
Black Drama [Selected Articles in Full Text]This link opens in a new windowBlack Drama contains plays with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. When complete, the collection will include more than 1,200 plays, of which some 20% have never been published before. The database will also include many more resources and related material. The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of James V. Hatch, a leading expert in this area.
Black Studies CenterThis link opens in a new windowBlack Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to black studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and reference books. It combines resources for research and teaching including The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper from 1912-1975.
Historical Black NewspapersThis link opens in a new windowThis database offers full text including images for several African-American newspapers from the 20th century, together in a searchable interface. Coverage includes: The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)Chicago Defender (1910-1975)Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991)New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
International Index to Black Periodicals [Selected Full Text]This link opens in a new windowIIBP includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean. Full-text coverage of 25 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 to present). Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary, spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline.
Ethnic NewsWatch [Selected Articles in Full Text]This link opens in a new windowEthnic NewsWatch is a full text database of newspapers published by and for leading American ethnic groups, and provides information on topics not covered by the mainstream press. Additionally, it provides ethnic perspectives of topics of national interest that may vary from what is presented in the mainstream press.
Black Thought and CultureThis link opens in a new windowBlack Thought and Culture is a collection of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. Content includes letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts.
In Motion: The African-American Migration ExperienceThis link opens in a new windowIn Motion: The African-American Migration Experience from the New York Public Library contains over 8,300 illustrations, 60 maps, and thousands of pages of primary and secondary texts focusing on the thirteen defining migrations that transformed the African-American experience and the United States as a nation, including the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Colonization, Haitian Immigration, the Great Migration, and more . Each section of the site includes full bibliographies and a plethora of related web links. Users can browser by migrations, by geography, or by a timeline of events. The site also includes educational materials and lesson plans for teachers.
Catalogue of anti-slavery publications in AmericaAccess to part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition, part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, part III: The Institution of Slavery, and part IV: The Age of Emancipation. Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions