African-American Studies

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databases - specific

JSTOR
A digital archive of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. The collection's coverage begins with the earliest issues of these journals and continues up to a few years before current publication.

America: History & Life
Provides citations to articles, dissertations and book reviews in American and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. It covers 2,000 English language historical journals including selected local publications.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Includes full text access to 113 historic newspapers, six of which are African-American publications, dating 1883 - present.

Digital Library of Georgia
Offers access to images culled from throughout the state of Georgia, covering both the region and its people's development.

databases - general

Research Library from ProQuest
Provides full text for over 1,700 scholarly journals and general magazines. All subjects.

Academic Search Complete from EBSCOhost
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database that searches a total of 10,900 publications including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Full text is provided for 5,300 journals.

Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition from WilsonWeb
This "mega" database is comprised of six smaller, individual, specialized databases. Full text coverage begins in January 1994.

Encyclopedias & Reference

From Credo Reference:
Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History

Black Firsts

digital collections

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.

Murray Pamphlet Collection at the Library of Congress.

AcademicInfo African-American History & Studies. Founded in 1998, this site aims to provide on-line resource guides to researchers and scholars.

Documenting the American South From the University of North Carolina, this digital archive offers access to primary resources documenting southern literature, history, and culture.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Georgia's Virtual Vault

archival institutions

Georgia Historical Society This local organizaion holds archival and primary materials relating to the history of African Americans in Savannah, Georgia, and the South.

Georgia Archives

organizations

NAACP This site offers a fascinating look at the beginnings of the National Assocaition for the Advancement of Colored People, biographical information on key characters in the organization's foundation, as well as up do date news concerning the NAACP's current iteration.

journals

Journal Locator
Searchable by topic or title, this provides holdings informaiton and electronic access (when available) for the journals Lane Library subscribes to. We have over 70 titles relating to topics of interest to scholars in the fields of African and African-American Studies. Results indicate print holdings in blue which are avaialble upstairs on the Periodical shelving, as well as links in green to electronic access.

Selected Books in Lane library

REFERENCE BOOKS
African American national biography	REF E185.96 .A4466 2008
Black women in America	REF E185.86 .B542 2005
African American lives	REF E185.96 .A446 2004
African-American century : how Black Americans have shaped our country	REF E185.96 .G38 2002
African-American archive : the history of the Black experience in documents	REF E184.6 .A33 2001
Routledge atlas of African American history	REF E185 .E125 2000
African American desk reference	REF E185 .A2528 1999
African-American experience : selections from the five-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history	REF E185 .E542 1998
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Capitol men : the epic story of Reconstruction through the lives of the first Black congressmen	E668 .D76 2008
Educational thought of W.E.B. Du Bois : an intellectual history	LB875.D83 A43 2008
Hemingses of Monticello : an American family	E332.74 .G67 2008
Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching	E185.97.W55 G53 2008
On the road to freedom : a guided tour of the civil rights trail	E185.61 .C63 2008
Other Souths : diversity and difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to present	F220.A1 O86 2008
AUTO & BIOGRAPHIES
Autobiographies by Frederick Douglass	E449 .D749 1994b
Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.	E185.97.K5 A52 2001
Autobiography of W.E.B. DuBois : a soliloquy on viewing my life from the last decade of its first century.	E185.97.D73 A3 1997
Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.	E185.97.O23 A3 2004
Ralph Ellison : a biography	PS3555.L625 Z8725 2008
Autobiography of Malcolm X / with the assistance of Alex Haley ; introduction by M.S. Handler ; epilogue by Alex Haley ; afterword by Ossie Davis.	BP223.Z8 L5794 1992