African
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History Resources in
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| Last updated : October 20, 2008 | Page Editor: Michael Unsworth |
Databases | Web Sites | Archives & Manuscript Collections
List of All the History Databases Available to the MSU Community
List of All the Ethnic Studies Databases Available to the MSU Community (some overlap with the History Databases)
***Essential***
America, History & Life -- Index to articles, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian History.
Black
Studies Center -- "a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black
Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper
articles, and much more."
***Other Databases***
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century -- Digitized editions of the following newspapers:
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City
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Dates
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| Freedom's Journal | New York, N. Y. | 1827 - 1829 |
| Colored American/Weekly Advocate | New York, N. Y. | 1837 - 1841 |
| North Star | Rochester, N.Y. | 1847 - 1851 |
| National Era | Washington, D.C. | 1847 - 1853 |
| Provincial Freeman | Chatham, Ontario | 1854-1857 |
| Frederick Douglass Paper | Rochester, N.Y. | 1851-1852 |
| Christian Recorder | Philadelphia, Pa. | 1861-1862 |
American Periodical Series -- A compilation of American periodicals and journals from colonial times to 1900. It is available in the following formats:
Archives USA -- This database lists collections in archives and manuscript repositories in the U.S. Note: MSU is limited to one user at a time. Click here for more information.
Black Studies on Disc -- Index to books and articles.
Chicago Defender (1910-1975) & Chicago Daily Defender (1956-1975) -- prominent African-American newspapers. Part of Black Studies Center.
Ethnic NewsWatch -- "a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press". Coverage begins with 1985; Ethnic NewsWatch now has more than 470,000 full-text articles from over 200 publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish
Harper's Weekly -- "the leading illustrated newspaper of its time."
MLA International Bibliography -- a listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
New York Times --
ProQuest Research Library -- Coverage begins in the early 1980s. Contains articles from a wide number of popular and scholarly publications in a variety of fields. Some but not all articles are full text.. Try using the "Guided" search method which is quite powerful and fairly easy to use.
United States Historical Census Data Browser -- contains data that describe the people and economy of the US for each state and county from 1790-1960
American Memory Collections (Library of Congress):
African-American
Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society
African American Odyssey
African American
Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
African-American
Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University
Born in Slavery:
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
By Popular Demand:
Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
Church
in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
First-Person
Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
Frederick Douglass
Papers at the Library of Congress
From Slavery
to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
Slaves and the
Courts, 1740-1860
Voices from the
Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
Zora Neale Hurston
Plays at the Library of Congress
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology -- "From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences... This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews. The entire collection of narratives can be found in George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972-79).
Documenting the American South -- "a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition -- " dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction. It seeks to foster an improved understanding of the role of slavery, slave resistance, and abolition in the founding of the modern world by promoting interaction and exchange between scholars engaged in research in each of these distinct areas, and by assisting in the translation of scholarly information into public knowledge through publications, educational outreach and other programs and events." Of interest to students are its Bibliographies, Source Documents, and Related Links sections.
History of Jim Crow -- An "educator's site" produced in conjunction with the PBS series, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, "that presents teachers with new historical resources and teaching ideas on one of the most shameful periods in American history, an era of segregation, violence, and disfranchisement of African Americans that tore at the very fabric of the nation."
Information Resources on African American Studies -- Produced by the Stanford University Library, this web site emphasizes history, culture, and biography. The call numbers for books and journals are for the Stanford Library; check our catalog to see if the MSU Libraries purchased them. The databases listed are for Stanford users. Check the links above and below to see if MSU subscribes to them.
John Novak Digital Interview Collection -- Produced by Marygrove College, this collection "consists of interviews with African-American Detroiters, members of the Black Storytellers Association of Detroit and a participant in the Greensboro Sit-in demonstrations that occurred in February 1960."
Links to African American History and Culture Internet Resources -- Produced by the Virginia Black History Archives of the Virginia Commonwealth University Library, this site "contains a selection of web sites related to African American history and culture -- with specific sections of links to African American History in Virginia; African American Genealogy; Library of Congress and National Archives; Online Exhibits maintained by other institutions and those by Special Collections and Archives; VCU related sites; and Other Sites that include numerous links to other internet resources."
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