LibGuides: African American Studies: Finding Articles: Databases

Best Databases for African American Studies

Academic Search Complete Academic Search Complete contains content in many areas from Black Studies to Biology, Psychology, and, Religious Studies. The database includes over 2,700 peer-reviewed journals and 77,000 videos on a range of topics.
Humanities International Complete Humanities International Complete contains the records of the Humanities International Index but also includes unique full-text content. It is a great starting point for general resources in the humanities.
ScienceDirect Provides access to leading scientific research worldwide in physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences, and the humanities
ProQuest (All Databases) This link allows you to search at once all the databases the library has purchased from ProQuest.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This collection brings together, for the first time, all essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Case coverage extends into the 20th century because long after slavery was ended, there were still court cases based on issues emanating from slavery.

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Academic Video Online (AVON) Academic Video Online makes video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States Provides a selection of primary source documents. Examples of assignments may include National History Day projects or research papers about Black Freedom.
Credo Reference An online reference database with sources that cover topics from agriculture to technology & engineering. This reference tool helps you start your research by providing background information. It has integrated some articles and databases from our subscriptions to EBSCOhost. As well as information on images and mind mapping tools to help gather your thoughts. Credo gives overviews of topics, concepts, and people; summarizes current issues and controversies; provides statistics and country data; and offers unique tools.
EBSCOhost This link allows you to search at once all the databases the library has purchased from EBSCOhost.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia This encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics, including full text access to your topic of choice. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas and it is updated annually.
HeinOnline: Civil Rights and Social Justice Brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more.
Open Justice Initiative The Open Society Justice Initiative database brings the Justice Initiative’s scholarship to HeinOnline, providing access to works published by the Justice Initiative in HeinOnline’s fully searchable, image-based forma

Internet Resources

African American History Project An archive of oral history interviews centering on integration and education.
African American Mosaic Another resource from the Library of Congress devoted to the study of African American history and culture.
African-American Odyssey
The Black Past Another online reference guide to African American history

Civil Rights Digital Library The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents one of the most ambitious and comprehensive efforts to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web
DuSable Museum of African American History The nation's oldest independent African American museum, the DuSable Museum has diverse holdings that number more than 15,000 pieces and include paintings, sculpture, print works and historical memorabilia. Its physical location is in Chicago, but there are many online exhibits available.
National Museum of African American History & Culture
Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history and culture of African Americans
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture -- Digital Collection Access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global black experience 24/7, where there are exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and external links for research on the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.

Association for the Study of African American Life and History The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH®) is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.
Association of African American Museums A non-profit member organization established to support African and African American focused museums nationally and internationally, as well as the professionals who protect, preserve and interpret African and African American art, history and culture. Established as the single representative and principal voice of the African American museum movement, the Association seeks to strengthen and advocate for the interests of institutions and individuals committed to the preservation of African-derived cultures.

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) Online weekly journal dedicated to the conscientious investigation of the status and prospects for African Americans in higher education.

Google Scholar-Search for Articles

Google Scholar has scholarly articles. Some of the articles are full-text, others offer only citations. Always start with the Page Library databases for you may wind up with the same article, but take longer to get to it, and you might be asked to pay for it. You are paying already!

African American Studies: Finding Articles: Databases

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Best Databases for African American Studies

Primary or Secondary Source?

Other Good Databases

Internet Resources

Google Scholar-Search for Articles

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