AAS 390 Research Methods African American Studies: Databases

Videos on Bobby Seale; Stokely Carmichael, Huey P. Newton; and Black Power Movement 1966-1975)

Since 1999, The HistoryMakers has been recording oral histories with over 2700 historically significant African Americans.
**This includes over 900 stories about the BLACK PANTHERS.

Black Thought and Culture provides monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art. Almost twenty percent of the collection has not been published previously.

Features the new Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, Encyclopedia of African American History 1896-present, African American National Biography, Dictionary of African Biography, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought. It also includes entries from the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography.

African American Periodicals, 1825-1995, features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres.

includes Amsterdam News

The New York Times (1851-2017) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

From EBSCO, a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database with over 7,000 scholarly publications.

Contains comprehensive indexing of most popular general-interest periodicals published in the U.S. and reflects the history of 20th century America. Complete database covers years 1890-1982.

This collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. It is excellent for social science, history, and liberal arts coursework.

Multi-disciplinary database containing full-text journals in disciplines such as history, economics, Asian Studies, classics, archeology, ecology, education, finance, history, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population, sociology, and statistics, as well as core titles in African, Latin American, Slavic, and Middle Eastern Studies. Journals are complete runs, starting with the first issue through the most recent year that has been digitized so far. For more help, try out http://guides.jstor.org/ target="_blank">Research Guides for JSTOR

Guide to history of the world from 1450 to the present, this authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,800 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. Coverage extends to related disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, and sociology.