Research Guides: African American History: Databases

Databases

Suggested Databases
General History Databases

African American Communities
Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, 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.
African American Historical Serials Collection
An archive of periodicals documenting the history of African American religious life and culture between 1829 and 1922; including newspapers and magazines, plus reports and annuals from African American religious organizations, including churches and social service agencies.
American Periodicals
Contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Gender: Identity and Social Change
Primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present.
History Vault NAACP Papers 1-6
Covers nearly 2 million pages of internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries providing a comprehensive view of events from 1909-1970.
Race Relations in America
Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, showcasing the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by Fisk University's Race Relations Department.

Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals.
JSTOR
Provides full-text access to hundreds of humanities, social science, and science scholarly books and journals.

If you have a citation from a book or article bibliography...

From the Library main page, go down to the mascot and click on Journals by Title. Enter the title of the journal, and see if it is available in any of our subscription databases or in the Library collection. Check to make sure your date is covered, then click on the database name, or make a note to come by the Library. If we don't have direct access to the journal issue you need, please fill out an interlibrary loan request form.

Journals by Title
Iliad Interlibrary Loan
How to Read a Citation (UCLA)
Can you tell the difference between a volume number and an issue number? An essay in a book versus a journal article? If you have any questions, check here.


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