A guide to useful resources that will assist students in their topic development, resource searching and evaluation, and the ethical use of information.
Time Period: 1827-1975
Location: North America, Africa, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania
Essays, primary sources, biographies, timelines, and other materials including documents from historic newspapers and magazines for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable component databases.. Includes Black Studies Periodicals database and Black Literature Index 1827-1940. Supports Black Studies, History, Literature, Women's Studies and Religion. Time period: 1827-1975.
Includes Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience-- cross-disciplinary essays by today's leading scholars in Black Studies; backfiles of leading African-American newspaper, The Chicago Defender, 1910-1975;journals from Africa, the U.S., and the Caribbean; 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940.
Time Period: ~1400-present (constantly updating, but usually a little behind present events)
Location: North America
A collection of scholarly resources focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes 8,000 articles from Oxford reference sources, over 1,750 images, more than 300 primary sources with specially written commentaries, and nearly 150 maps. 150 charts and tables offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts. Licensed for only one user at a time. You may have to choose the University of the South as your institution after reaching the site in order to gain access.
Includes the full text of the following Oxford reference sources: - Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition - Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 - Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present - Black Women in America, Second Edition - African American National Biography Also, contains selected content from other Oxford publications.
A collection of over 3,000 academic journals and over 70,000 ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Also includes over a million images, letters, and other primary sources. Most journals are covered from their first issue up to 3-5 years from the current year, and include previous titles. Also includes the current issues of some titles. Note: there are some journals in JSTOR for which Sewanee does not have full-text access. In the Advanced search you can limit to only the content available to you.
Full-text versions of peer-reviewed journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, as well as thousands of ebooks, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences. We subscribe to the "Standard Collection" of journals (which is over 300 titles, but not all of the journals on the site) and have purchased a small number of ebooks. You may want to limit your search to "Only content I have full access to."
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