African American Studies Information Sources

Articles     Find Articles in Other Databases   Academic OneFile       1980-current Scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers in various fields - many with full text and images. Database details.   Academic Search Premier       1975-current Covers most academic disciplines and contains full-text to over 4000 journals (over 3000 of which are peer reviewed). Database details..   JSTOR       Varies by title Full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in many fields. Database details..   Project MUSE       Mid-1990s to present Over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Database details..     Journals, Magazines, Newspapers   Ethnic NewsWatch       1960-1989 Retrospective database comprised of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Database details.. Primary Source Materials     Digital Collections   Heritage Quest       1700s-early 20th century Includes digital images of U.S. federal census records, U.S. Serial Set, Freedman's Bank records, genealogy sources, local history collections, and other primary sources. Database details.   Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice       1490-2007 Includes documents and collections chronicling the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. Database details.     Historical Documents   Black Thought and Culture       Colonial period to current Approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community. Database details.. Selected Resources     Poetry, Prose & Drama   African American Poetry       1746-1900 Full-text coverage from the first recorded poem by an African American to the major poets of the nineteenth century. Database details..   Twentieth-Century African American Poetry       20th century Contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems. Database details..     Reference Sources   African American Music Reference   Contains over 2,000 essays coveraging blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. Database details.   The African-American almanac      c 1994 Location: 1st Floor - Reference, 325.26 P31n 1994 Websites     Academic Department   Course Page: ENGL 6340 (African American Lit) Page Maintained By: Jackie Dowdy