Research Guides: African American History: Databases/Articles

Key Databases for African American History

America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
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Index of scholarly literature covering the history & culture of the U.S. & Canada, from prehistory to the present.
Provides indexing of academic journals dating back to 1954, with some coverage for titles back to the early 20th century.
Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Resources for researching the past, present, & future of African Americans, the wider African Diaspora, & Africa itself. Comprised of several cross-searchable component databases.
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
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A premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from scholarly journals & other authoritative sources. Also includes thousands of podcasts & transcripts from NPR & CNN, as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning. (Coverage: 1980 --)

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Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Full-text newspapers, magazines, & journals of the ethnic & minority press, providing access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Includes unique community publications not found in any other database, as well as top scholarly journals on ethnicities & ethnic studies.

Nearly a quarter of the articles are presented in Spanish. Dozens of major Latino publications are featured, including El Nuevo Herald & El Chicano Weekly.

The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, & Hispanic American periodicals. (Coverage: 1959 --)

Ethnic NewsWatch™ comprehensively covers these ethnic categories:

African American/Caribbean/African
Arab/Middle Eastern
Asian/Pacific Islander
European/Eastern European
Hispanic
Jewish
Native People
Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
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An index to the contents of journals & magazines in the humanities & social sciences, from their first issues through 1995, with links to the full-text of some articles. (Coverage: 1665-1995)
Race Relations Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Citations to publications on race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas
Biography in Context This link opens in a new window
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Biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, & across all disciplines & subject areas.
Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
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Contains biographies, obituaries, & photographs. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, & citations. Biographical subjects represent all fields & nationalities. (Coverage: antiquity --)
GovInfo This link opens in a new window
Open Access. Fulltext collections of some of the most frequently used government information sources. Includes the final published versions of official Federal publications from all 3 branches of government: executive, legislative, & judicial. (Coverage: varies)
Examples of what is available on GovInfo include:
- Bills & statutes, congressional committee materials, proceedings of Congress
- Presidential & regulatory materials
- Opinions from more than 100 U.S. courts
- Congressional Record, Federal Register, House & Senate Calendars
- Digitized historical content
- High-profile publications

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