Databases

• African American newspapers : the 19th century
  Contains a wealth of information about African American cultural life and history during the 19th century, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. Also contains large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, …
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• African American song
  See: American Song.
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• American Civil War research database
  The American Civil War Research Database is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Originally created by Historical Data Systems, Inc., the database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. With thousands of regimental rosters and officer profiles, the database will continue to grow …
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• Black thought and culture : African Americans from Colonial times to the present.
  Black Thought and Culture includes approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major African American leaders , teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers and other figures covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political …
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• Chicago defender (1905-1975)
  The Chicago Defender (1905-1975) was the largest and most influential African American newspaper by World War I, with more than two thirds of its readership outside of Chicago. Promoting the Great Migration in the in the early 1900's and desegragation after World War II, the Chicago Defender attracted the writing talents of Gwendolyn Brooks, Walter White, and Langston Hughes. With over six decades of searchable full-text coverage, the …
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• eHRAF world cultures
  The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), a non-profit consortium of universities and colleges, seeks to encourage and facilitate comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture. eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life.
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• Ethnic newswatch
  Provides full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America. Searchable in English and Spanish.
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• Ethnic newswatch, a history
  Provides full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America from 1959 to 1989.
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• Historical statistics of the United States
  Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition contains over 37,000 different time-series statistics providing a quantitative view into American history, Colonial Times to the present. Data series address many different topics of the United States, including Colonial, Revolutionary, and Confederate States aspects of American History. The Millennial Edition includes dozens of new topics including slavery, American Indians, and …
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• Oral history online
  Oral History Online contains an index and links to editorially vetted, Web-based oral histories in English in archives and libraries around the world, with links to full text, audio, and video when available. It also contains tens of thousands of in-copyright, full-text interviews from proprietary collections.
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• Oxford African American studies center
  The AASC provides students, scholars and librarians with online access to reference resources in African American studies. At its core, AASC features the three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine and the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African American experience. The Center also includes content from print …
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• Oxford reference online. Premium
  Cross-searchable online database of Oxford University Press subject dictionaries and reference works in the Premium Collection. Each topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published dictionaries and encyclopedias. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)
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• World newspaper archive
  World Newspaper Archive is the largest fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe--and includes historical newspapers published in Africa, Latin America, Slavic and East Europe, South Asia and other regions. Providing exact digital replicas of newspapers published in English and a variety of other languages, the World Newspaper Archive chronicles the history and politics of diverse peoples and cultures during …
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