Save time! Search once for your topic in dozens of research databases.
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Save time! Search once for your topic in dozens of research databases.
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Academic Search Premier,designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
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America: History and Life is an index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Has indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews.
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Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Annual Reviews is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.
Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature. All Annual Reviews series are ranked within the top ten publications for their respective disciplines.
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1,200 plays, almost a quarter of which are previously unpublished. The collection includes the complete works of more than 300 playwrights from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia, and other locations. Starting with Victorian plays and working up to the present, this collection presents the writings together with biographies, playbills, images, production notes, performance information, and much more.
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More than 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975, illustrate the evolution of what it means to "be black." Includes the only full run of The Black Panther - the party's newspaper - and 2,500 pages of oral history interviews recorded by the former Black Panther, David Hilliard. Teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, veterans, entertainers, and others are represented.
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Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.
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Education Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
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Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
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Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square?over half a million entries in all.
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LexisNexis® Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard?s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news
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NetLibrary offers access to the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books. NetLibrary eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.
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Project Muse® offers nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers, covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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Find detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, a rich battles database, and more. These and thousands of other experiences are represented in this massive 100,000-page collection. The materials are indexed with dozens of search fields, and there are 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscript images.
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American History in Video provides a large and rich collection of video for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection contains commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. Especially useful for study of the civil rights period.
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MagPortal.com helps you to find individual magazine articles from all over the web. It can be used as a research tool (try the search engine) or for keeping abreast of current articles in your field of interest (browse the categories).
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Publishes essays on African American literature, art and culture. Contains interviews, fictions and poems.
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The mission of the African American Visual Artists Database is to establish a free public access record of the historical and ongoing contribution of artists of African descent to the visual arts, and to provide a visual and textual informational resource for non-profit educational use with unrestricted free access to all members of the global community. Also to encourage the inclusion of artists of the African Diaspora in those areas where they continue to be underrepresented: the curricula and scholarship of schools and universities, museums and private collections, gallery and public exhibition spaces, public and institutional commissions.
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BWGF emphasizes the study of Black women, gender, families and communities. The journal welcomes research and theoretical submissions in history, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, education, economics, political science and English that are framed by Black Women's Studies perspectives and a policy or social analysis. Interdisciplinary, comparative and transnational studies of the African Diaspora and other women, families and communities of color are also encouraged.
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CALLALOO, the premier African Diaspora literary journal, publishes original works by, and critical studies of, black writers worldwide. The journal offers a rich mixture of fiction, poetry, plays, critical essays, cultural studies, interviews, and visual art. Frequent annotated bibliographies, special thematic issues, and original art and photography are some of the features of this highly acclaimed international showcase of arts and letters.
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Caribbean Studies is a multidisciplinary academic journal published since 1961 by the Institute of Caribbean Studies, College of Social Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. The journal publishes original works on the Social Sciences and the Humanities in English, Spanish or French languages. It is divided in four parts: articles, research notes, book reviews (including review essays of multiple books and individual reviews), and news and events. At present one of the bi-annual issues is usually a special thematic one.
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Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
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Human Rights Quarterly is widely recognizedas the leader in the field of human rights. Articles written by experts from around the world and from a range of disciplines are edited to be understood by the intelligent reader. The Quarterly provides up-to-date information on important developments within the United Nations and regional human rights organizations, both governmental and non-governmental.
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Click on Regional & Travel/Africa and browse annotated links to free electronic journals, or search for africa or other desired term and get additional appropriate links.
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Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration will make online research material on African immigration and migration available. It will facilitate connections between the users of technology and research scholars, analysts and writers in the area of African immigration and migration that enable them to debate, dialogue, present the results of their research and for immigrants and migrants, a record of their life experiences.
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The Journal of Modern African Studies offers a quarterly survey of politics, economics, and related topics in contemporary Africa. The main emphasis is upon the peoples and policies, the problems and progress of this dynamic and disparate continent; upon the many societies that are evolving rather than the essential characteristics of the old; and upon the present, rather than the past.
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Presents research, scholarly essays and interviews to those concerned with the multiethnic scope of American literature, including Asian-American, African-American, Hispanic American, Native-American and immigrant European literature.
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The mission of the journal is to expand current conversations on race and ethnicity by working across geographical and disciplinary boundaries and the theory/practice divide.
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The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) was the most widely circulated black newspaper on the Atlantic coast. It was the first black newspaper to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents.
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Source of news on the African American community. Links include archives to previous weeks of news, a clickable timeline of black media history, submitted letters of concerns and essays and other resources.
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The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) was the most widely circulated black newspaper on the Atlantic coast. It was the first black newspaper to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents.
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Find links to directories, leaders, slavery, the civil war, civil rights movement, jazz, online publications, museums, libraries, teaching materials and other resources. Most links are annotated and many include attributions.
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Find directories, news, online publications, libraries and archives, university departments and history links. Most links are annotated and many include attributions.
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Link to programs and research centers, journals and newspapers, scholars, book resources. Resource guides by region and country, organization and topic.
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Nearly 100 sites alphabetically arranged, with major index sites highlighted. Covers historical and contemporary materials. Each entry includes brief annotation. Links kept up to date and new sites are noted.
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Well organized guide from Rutgers University. Includes links to reference sources, news, archives, associations and organizations and electronic texts arranged by century. A few entries include brief annotations.
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Select a country or try a topic such as Arts and Humanities, Business and Economy, Government, Health, Society and Culture.
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Covers Africa & African Americans, language, wildlife, news, scholarships, arts, travel, social action, business, etc.
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An image and sound database from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library. Search by collection, subject or country. Image collections include artisans, buildings and structures, cities and towns, education, landscape, religion and women. Sound collections include greetings, rites and ceremonies, songs and singing and drums.
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Covers travel in 51 African countires. Includes data on climate, currencies, visa requirements, transporation and accommodations, favorite destinations, sports, and national festivals.
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Africabib Includes African Women's Bibliographic Database, Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database, Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa 1763-2004: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography, DISA: Digital Imaging Project of South Africa. South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1990.
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The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. A noteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African- American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound.
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Uncover the history of African American women: the history of black women in America, from slavery through Reconstruction, Harlem Renaissance and civil rights. Biographies, organizations, events and movements.
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AHDS Visual Arts is based at The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College. AHDS Visual Arts is one of five Subject Centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), and as such acts as The AHDS Centre for Visual Arts.
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Includes scanned images of letters from black women in the 19th century.
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Includes a number of links relevant for Africana Studies such as the African American History Timeline, the Chronology of the History of Slavery, and the Civil Rights Movement Timeline
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This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews.
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The thousand images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public - in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs Divisions of the Library of Congress and includes more than 200 photographs from the Prints and Photographs Division that are now made available to the public for the first time. Born in Slavery was made possible by a major gift from the Citigroup Foundation.
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? Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.?
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Especially see the resources category.
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In 1986, the Africana Library was named in honor of John Henrik Clarke, who was widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of Africana Studies. Dr. Clarke played an important role in the early history of Cornell University's Africana Studies & Research Center. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of African History at the Center in the 1970s. He also made an invaluable contribution to the establishment of its curricula.
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A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Includes full-text digital versions of literary works, Confederate documents, school books, letters, diaries and more.
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Includes audio clips and links to 15 other sites. Includes timeline.
English Server - Race & Ethnicity
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Links to approximately 100 individual online resources arranged alphabetically. Point of view includes African Americans and other groups. Find an African American bibliography, primary sources from Douglass, Du Bois and others, personal narratives and theoretical discourses.
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Links to bibliographies, archival and research sites, presidential speeches and full-text versions of government reports and articles.
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Profiles of prominent 19th-century black Americans.
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"Literature & Life" is a PBS Documentary and Web site based on the The Givens Collection of African-American Literature, a unique assembly of books, manuscripts, and other items found in the University of Minnesota Library's Special Collections/Rare books department. This vast and varied collection is culled from centuries of African-American literary art.
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Includes photos, interviews, and "a brief life history of Mary McLeod Bethune including her founding of the Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls" (now Florida's Bethune-Cookman College). Also features resources for teachers. From the Florida Memory Project.
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Navigate through 3000 years of World History with links to important persons of world historical importance; civilization timelines; events and facts; and historical maps.
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The Archives of American Art, founded in 1954, has assembled the world's largest collection of material documenting the visual arts of the United States. Affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution since 1970, the Archives gathers, preserves, and makes available to scholars the original records of American painters, sculptors, craftsmen, collectors, and dealers, as well as those of critics, historians, curators, societies, and institutions concerned 'with art in America.
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Strives to make media coverage inclusive and accurate as it pertains to people of color.
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Includes collections, archives and research materials. Worth visiting in person and virtually.
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The Internet is rapidly transforming the production, distribution, and consumption of knowledge and information. Information is made available in electronic formats and through differing network applications.
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The Internet is rapidly transforming the production, distribution, and consumption of knowledge and information. Information is made available in electronic formats and through differing network applications.
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The Story of Africa tells the history of the continent from an African perspective.
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