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Africana Studies Databases

Bloomsbury Collections (ABC-CLIO)
Collection of ebooks covering history and literary criticism. Includes a large collection of American slave narratives.
Academic Search Complete
A great database to get started with for your research on any topic. Use it to search for articles from scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals, newspapers, and magazines.
African American Almanac
Provides a range of historical and current information on African American history, society and culture.
African American Newspapers Series 1: 1827-1998
Provides access to U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. This collection includes historically significant papers and features many rare 19th-century titles.
African-American Poetry (1750-1900)
Text of poems written between 1750-1900 written by African-American poets.
America: History and Life

References to journal articles and other sources on the history of the US and Canada. See Historical Abstracts for world history.
Archives Unbound
Topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War to Twentieth-Century political history.
Black Drama: 1850 to Present
The full text of plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Black Women in America
Provides coverage of the achievements and contributions of African American women in sports, politics, academia, and business throughout history and highlights their contributions in America today.
Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876
140 newspaper titles from 22 islands from the 18th and 19th centuries. Research Colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, New World slavery, and more. Most of these newspapers were published in English, but some non-English titles are also included.

Documenting the American South
Primary source materials relating to Southern history.
Free or open source.

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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: First-Person Narratives of the American South; Library of Southern Literature; North American Slave Narratives; The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865; The Church in the Southern Black Community.

Evangelism in Africa: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1835-1910
Records of the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the Presbyterian Church on social conditions in developing nations and efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century. It includes correspondences, diary accounts, field accounts, and more.
Greensboro Massacre, 1979: Shootout between the American Nazis and the Communist Workers Party
Collection of documents from FBI, local and state police, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the Civill Rights Division of the Justice Department relating to the shootout and the aftermath.
History Commons - North America
19th Century African American newspapers, American County Histories to 1900, American Civil War Primary Sources, and more.
Historical Abstracts
References to journal articles and other sources on the history of the world (excluding U.S and Canada).
Historical Statistics of the United States
Source for statistical facts of American history.
International African Bibliography Online (IABO)
Contains entries from the International African Bibliography published in the years 1971 to 2015.
iPOLL Databank
The most comprehensive, up-to-date resource for US public opinion poll data.
JSTOR
Provides access to academic journals and books covering a wide range of disciplines; it also includes some limited primary source collections.
Latin American Newspapers (Series I), 1805-1922
Full-text access to more than 30 Latin American newspapers published 1805-1922.
Latin American Newspapers (Series II), 1822-1922
Series II of Latin American Newspapers expands the number of titles available from this region, including from some countries and cities not represented in Series I.
Liberation Movement in Africa and African America 1970-1985
Contains FBI surveillance files on the activities of the African Liberation Support Committee and All African People's Revolutionary Party. Includes views on African American support for liberation struggles in Africa and the issues of Pan-Africanism.
Literary Reference Plus
Articles and other information about authors and their works. Previously titled Literary Reference Center.
MLA International Bibliography
Provides access to scholarly research pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.

NationMaster
A compilation of data on countries of the world. Free or open source.

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A compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD. Users can generate maps and graphs on a broad range of statistics.
Limited functionality; the library does not have a subscription. Pie charts, scatterplots and correlations are not available.
Nineteenth Century in Print
Comprises books and periodicals published in the United States during the nineteenth century, primarily during the second half of the century.

Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980 (Adam Matthew)
Letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts of events from British government files offer access to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime.
Confidential Print: Africa (Adam Matthew)
Collection consists of the Confidential Print for Africa. Topics covered include coastal trading in the early nineteenth century, the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa, the abuses of the Congo Free State, World War II, and apartheid in South Africa. Topics range from c. 1834-1966.
Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought
A comprehensive view of African thought, covering the intellectual tradition on the continent and throughout the diaspora. Major trends in African philosophy, political theory, religion, significant historical figures, and social movements are covered.
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
This resource surveys American literature, covering literary history from the 1600s to present day. Content includes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, and themes.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
Draws together the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Articles address such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Comprehensively covers the role women have played throughout world history. Contains biographies of influential women and articles covering geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies.
Project Muse
Scholarly journals and ebooks in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Sociological Abstracts
Covers the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture, 1773-1981 (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
This collection provides an in-depth look into the motivations, activities, and results of the European conquest of Africa in the nineteenth century using monographs, manuscripts, and newspaper accounts covering key issues of economics, world politics, and international strategy.
Twentieth Century African-American Poetry
Texts of modern and contemporary African-American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present.
We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961
A civil rights group's mission - and the FBI's coverage of it - provide a perspective into American politics and society through surveillance reports, chronologies, witness statements and more.
Wiley Online Library
Journals in the physical/life sciences and in the social sciences.

Streaming Video

Ethnographic Video Online I and II: Foundational Films
A core streaming video collection introducing cultural groups and practices from around the globe. The collection features documentaries, interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides and more.
Films on Demand
This resource provides high quality streaming videos about a range of subjects. The videos include award winning documentaries plus interviews, training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
Kanopy Streaming Video
Kanopy is a multi-disciplinary collection of documentary and educational films that have been assigned to courses for in-class instruction and out-of-class assignments.
LGBT Studies in Video
Contains award-winning films, documentaries, interviews, and archival footage exploring the social, cultural, and political evolution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day.
PBS Video Collection (in Films on Demand)
A collection of high-quality documentary and educational video programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation.
African American Communities (Adam Matthew)
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.