The African American Historical Serials Collection features 173 periodicals spanning from 1816 through 1922. The periodicals in this collection include newspapers and magazines, in addition to reports and annuals from various African American organizations, including churches and educational and service institutions.
This collection documents the efforts of African American activists in their international effort to abolish slavery in the United States. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection records the full impact of African American efforts to oppose slavery by displaying the writings and publications of the activists themselves.
HistoryMakers Digital Archive is a collection of videos where African Americans share their life stories and what they've done. You can watch and read what they say to learn about their experiences and history.
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.
ProQuest and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have teamed up to digitize the association’s archives, bringing one of the most famous records of the civil rights movement to the online world via ProQuest History Vault. The collection is nearly two million pages of internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. It charts the NAACP’s work and delivers a first-hand view into crucial issues: lynching, school desegregation, and discrimination in the military, the criminal justice system, employment, and housing, among others.
In its entirety, Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive consists of more than five million cross-searchable pages sourced from books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps from many different countries.
This collection has a wide selection of eBooks that have been curated by scholars for scholars. Members societies, relating to the humanities and interpretive social sciences, recommend titles for inclusion in this resource.
The fifty thematic subsets from AAS Historical Periodicals include digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals not available from any other source and provide rich content detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century. These specialized collections cover advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more.
The ACLU archive includes more than 2 million pages of primary resource materials from the records of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The records focus on civil rights, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court fro 1912 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The collection also includes legal briefs, newspapers, internal memoranda, client correspondence, and committee reports. There are also other topics covered such as the rise of the Ku Klux Clan, the Civil Rights movement, and ACLU's involvement in the Vietnam War. The main goals of the ACLU were to fight to end racial discrimination, promote the true definition of civil rights and defend those who did not have much power during those periods.
ARTstor primarily houses high-quality images of art, architecture, and other visual materials. This includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints, decorative arts, and more. It also provides access to related information like artist biographies, historical context, and image metadata.
The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media.
Full-text electronic books covering the disciplines art, biology, business, chemistry, communication, computer science, education, English, engineering, history, mathematics, music, pharmacy, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, sociology and theology.
Full-text electronic books covering a broad range of academic disciplines. Books can be read online in your web browser or can be checked out and downloaded for offline reading. Checking out and downloading a book requires creating a My EBSCOhost account and installing Adobe Digital Editions.
The European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 database is a free archive of indexed publications related to the Americas and written in Europe before 1750. It includes thousands of valuable primary source records covering the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.
Fuente Académica is a database of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals. Titles from Latin America, Portugal and Spain cover all major subject areas, including agriculture, economics, history, law, literature, psychology and sociology. Coverage for most titles begins in the 2000s. Content is updated on a weekly basis and currently offers the full text for more than 500 publications from 18 countries.
The Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG), a part of Georgia’s Virtual Library GALILEO and is based at the University of Georgia Libraries. Since 2007, the DLG has partnered with universities, archives, public libraries, historical societies, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions to digitize historical newspapers from around the state. The archive is free and open for public use and includes over two million Georgia newspaper pages between 1763 and 2021.
The Handbook of LAtin American Studies contains scholarly assessments of publications related to Latin America, from the 1930s to the present, including books, articles, maps, e-resources, and more. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, this multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. This database contains bibliographic records found in the Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) from the 1970s to the present. HLAS includes annotated citations for books, journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, maps and atlases, and e-resources. The Tables of Contents page provides links to bibliographic review essays that contextualize scholarly trends and publications.
Provides access to primary source materials related to United States history. The database allows users to search for books and periodicals published during the time that history was being made.
This collection features more than 17,000 world history e-books. Titles encompass a variety of subjects, including medieval history, history of music, history of science, law in history, history of philosophy, art history, history of technology, history of business and economics, history of religion, military history and more. Notable publishers include Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., University of California Press and State University of New York Press.
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.
History Vault unlocks the wealth of key archival materials with a single search. Researchers can access digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials.
MAS Complete is designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 540 popular, high school magazines. It also provides more than 440 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for high school students. Topics include biography, history, careers, language arts, literature, government, health, math, science, current events, and social-emotional health.
This collection offers a broad selection of journals and additional sources for various religious studies, including formal theological studies and commentary on subjects of public interest from numerous religions. These also contain publications from nonreligious organizations.
This full-text multi-disciplinary database provides indexing, abstracts, and full text for all full text articles covering areas such as art, education, ethnic studies, history, humanities, technology, and women's studies.
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.
Scopus is a citation and abstract database of peer-reviewed literature that can be used to determine the impact of specific authors, articles/documents, and journals. It contains records in the areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. With comprehensive content coverage, high-quality data, and precise search and analytical tools, Scopus gives researchers, librarians, research managers, and R&D professionals the insights to drive better decisions, actions, and outcomes.
Including bibliographic records covering essential areas related to the study of cities and regions, this database explores such topics as urban affairs, community development, urban history and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
