African American Studies: Historical

An American Mosaic Online Resource. Developed with the guidance of African American librarians and subject specialists, The African American Experience is both a broad and deep online database collection on African American history and culture. Providing thesis-driven, peer-reviewed scholarly essays, as well as primary source documents and classroom resources, it is a collection that taps a tremendous variety of sources essential to understanding African American history and its relation to greater U.S. history.

Online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.

Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database indexes journals from 1964 to present and includes citations and links to book and media reviews.

JSTOR offers archival journal collections in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Coverage begins with the events preceding the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter, continues through the surrender at Appomattox and concludes with the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln.

Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

This database is an archive of millions of pages of content thematically arranged to provide an understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective, divided into four parts: Part 1: Debates over Slavery and Abolition; Part 2: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World; Part 3: The Institution of Slavery; Part 4: The Age of Emancipation.

Curriculum-aligned resource that offers media-rich content in context. Contains nearly one million biographical entries spanning history and geography. (Formerly Biography Resource Center)