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The HistoryMakers is a national non-profit research and educational institution committed to preserving and making widely accessible the untold personal stories of both well-known and unsung African Americans. Through the media and a series of user-friendly products, services and events, The HistoryMakers enlightens, entertains and educates the public, helping to refashion a more inclusive record of American history. Nearly 150,000 stories are assembled from life oral history interviews with 2,701 historically significant African Americans as of September 24, 2022.

History Reference Source offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

JSTOR is a comprehensive database providing access to academic scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, ebooks from renowned scholarly publishers, that are DRM-free, and primary sources across four collections: Global Plants, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa.

Full-text articles, biographies, images, maps and tables that focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

Provides access to tens of thousands of journals, magazines, newspapers, dissertations, and other publications is available through the ProQuest collection of several databases.

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, and Law brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. It covers the extensive impact of slavery on the development of the modern world and various issues that have emerged from slavery.