historical
The African American Experience
A collection of resources on African American life covering such topics as history, biography, literature, arts, education, civil rights, politics, folklore, etc.
America: History and Life
Comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. Covers 1964 to the present.
JSTOR (Full Text)
Full-text archive of important scholarly journal literature. Check "history" and/or "african american studies" on the search screen.
American National Biography (Full Text)
Biographical information on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. ANB contains profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all walks of American life, from the well-known to the infamous to the obscure.
Biography Resource Center (Full Text)
Includes entire contents of Contemporary Black Biography plus numerous other sources.
The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (Full Text)
Contains the full-text of articles in The Charleston Mercury, The New York Herald and the Richmond Examiner from Nov. 1860 through April 1865.
Making of America (Full Text)
A full-text library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
cultural/political
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes and provides abstracts for 350 international journals covering various areas of sociology.
Campus Research (WestLaw)
Campus Research is an easy-to-use online research service that provides college and university students with access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.
Alternative Press Index
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Coverage is from 1991 to the present.
ATLA Religion Database With ATLASerials (Full Text)
A collection of major religion and theology journals selected by some of the major religion scholars in the United States. Journals representing all major religious faiths, major denominations, and language groups are included. Information dates as far back as 1949, and coverage continues through the present.
ERIC
Education journals from 1965. Monthly updates. Useful for educational impact in the area of African American Studies.
literary
MLA Bibliography
Index to 6,000+ journals and books, proceedings, etc. in literature, language, linguistics and folklore. From 1963. Updated 10 times per year. Extremely useful for intensive or less common topics.
Contemporary Authors (Full Text)
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Literary Index
Master index to the major literature products published by Gale Group, Inc. including Black Literature Criticism.
general
Academic Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.
Infotrac Academic OneFile (Full Text) 
A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Please log out when you are finished.
Periodicals Archives Online (formerly Periodicals Contents Index - Full Text) (Full Text)
Index to articles from 1802 to 1995 in the humanities and social sciences. Full-text to approximately 140 journals including Africa, Journal of African Studies, and Journal of Religion in Africa.
Project Muse (Full Text)
Scholarly journals from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.
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