HISTORY 334
SELECTED RESOURCES IN HISTORY
African-American History Since 1865
REFERENCE SOURCES:
Asante, Molefi. The African-American atlas : Black history and culture--an illustrated reference. New York : Macmillan, c1998.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E185 .A79 1998
Bradley, David, et. al. eds. The encyclopedia of civil rights in America. Armonk, N.Y. : Sharpe Reference, c1998.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E185.61 .E544 1998 V. 1 - 3
Cowan, Tom Timelines of African-American history : 500 years of Black achievement. New York : Berkley Pub. Group, 1994.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E185 .C86 1994
Hine, Darlene, C. Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1993.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E185.86 .B542 1993 v.1 & v.2
Higginbotham, Evelyn B, ed. The Harvard guide to African-American history. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E185 .H326 2001
Hornsby, Alton, Jr. Chronology of African American history : from 1492 to the present
Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1997
HAYDEN REFERENCE E185 .H64x 1997
Newman, Richard Black index : Afro-Americana in selected periodicals, 1907-1949. New York : Garland Pub., 1981.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E185 .N58x
Schomberg Center African American desk reference New York ; Chichester : Wiley, c1999.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E185 .A37x 1999
Smith, Jessie C. Historical statistics of Black America New York : Gale Research, c1995.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E185 .H543 1995 v.1 - 2
Wright, Kai The African-American archive : the history of the Black experience in documents.
New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : Distributed by Workman Publishing Co., c2001.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E184.6 .A33 2001
ONLINE INDEXES AND RESOURCES:
America: History and Life. 1954-.
This is the essential abstract index for literature on American history. It contains abstracts from American and foreign journals on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history from the prehistoric period to the present.
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (1490)
Gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 5 million items from more than 90 historical collections.
ArchivesUSA (1950s+)
Access to special collection details of more than 4,400 repositories includes records with complete detailed indexes for approximately 100,000 individual collections. Includes access through NUCMC and NIDS subject headings (see NIDS and NUCMC listings below). Archives USA is also the most up to date source for address information on specific archival and manuscript repositories.
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. Provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.
HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I (1857-1871) (1857-1871)
Indexes full-text of Harper's Weekly, probably the only consistent, comprehensive, weekly chronological record of world-wide events of the late 19th century. Covers front-line Civil War reports, the re-election of Lincoln, & Reconstruction.
Historical Index to the New York Times (1863-1905, 1913-9/1922)
The Historical Index to The New York Times is an electronic index to articles published in The New York Times.
JSTOR
Includes long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. Subjects covered include African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Sociology and etc.
Making of America (1800-1925)
Full text of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. These are two separate sites with separate resources. While much of the resources are periodical in nature, they provide excellent contemporaneous resources.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile (1787-1906)
Merges every relevant index to 19th-century newspapers, periodicals, books and government documents into a single, searchable site. Provides unprecedented access to the printed output of this extraordinary period.
Periodicals Contents Index (1770-1990/91)
PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed
Specialized Sources on the Internet:
Universal Black Pages
Created originally through the efforts of members of the Black Graduate Students' Association at Georgia Tech University, this is a comprehensive collection of pointers to subjects related to the "African Diaspora."
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
Presents 397 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1824 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The materials range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative speeches. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church Terrell, and Booker T. Washington.
African-American Women: Online Archival Collections:
A select collection of primary source materials from the Special Collections Department at Duke University
Yahoo - U. S. History
The first place to start for a search of Internet sites for U. S. History. Particularly useful for tracking down sites with primary sources. Its hierarchical arrangement is as close to a library as one gets on the web
Edward C. Oetting
Reference Librarian
Political Science/History Bibliographer
Hayden Reference Team
Arizona State University
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