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African American History
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Multidisciplinary Databases
- Academic Search UltimateCovers over 11,000 journals in all fields of study.
- JSTORPrimarily a journal archive with some current content. If you are looking for current information, you may want to try other databases as well.
Recommended Historical Databases
- Black Studies CenterHistorical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. Materials includes newspapers, dissertations, abolitionist papers, and oral interviews. See the Binghamton University Libraries Center for the 1960s.
- African American Historical Serials CollectionThis collection documents the history of African American life and religious organizations from materials published between 1829 and 1922.
- Human Rights Studies OnlineA research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event.
- American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals, 1691-1877Providing digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877.
- ACLS Humanities E-BookCollection of over 1400 full-text, cross searchable books covering topics of interest to historians and humanities scholars.
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Database of CollectionExplore over 37,000 materials indexed and described by the Smithsonian.
- National Archives: African American HeritageIncludes archive materials that are Pre-Civil War, military records, and Post-Civil War materials related to African American heritage
- HRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new windoweHraf is an unique cross-cultural database containing more than a quarter of a million pages of descriptive information on the cultures of the world. Includes the full text of ethnographic books, journal articles and other materials that are indexed by culture and subject.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online
A digital collection of books, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, ephemera, and maps that cover politics and society, literature, spirituality, technology and more.