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  • ABC-Clio eBook Collection
    Collection of ebooks covering history and literary criticism, including a large collection of narratives by enslaved people. More info
  • African American Communities
    Presents multiple aspects of the African American community, focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina. More info
  • African American Newspapers
    Provides primary sources for such diverse disciplines as cultural, literary, and social history, ethnic studies, and more (1827-1998). More info
  • America’s Historical Newspapers
    Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. More info
  • American History, 1493-1945
    Sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, this collection of primary source documents brings to life American history from the times of the earliest settlers until the end of World War II. More info
  • Anthropology Plus
    Limited to 5 simultaneous users. Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays. More info
  • Archive of Americana
    Now part of Readex AllSearch. Features over 1,375 newspaper titles from all 50 states, more than 100,000 books, broadsides and pamphlets, and much more. More info
  • Art Full Text
    Includes nearly 170 full-text periodicals, and indexes thousands of English and foreign-language periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, dissertations, and art reproductions. More info
  • Artstor
    More than two million art images for non-profit educational use from numerous art, architecture, and anthropology collections. See More Info for a collection list. More info
  • Black Life in America
    The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to 1975. More info
  • Digital Library on American Slavery
    Offers a searchable collection of public records concerning enslavement. More info
  • Empire Online
    Contains primary source documents that span five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires. More info
  • Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941-1996
    English-language full-text broadcasts and news transcripts—translated as needed—from around the world. More info
  • Gale African American Studies
    An interdisciplinary academic collection devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of Black Americans covering the tumultuous period from 1900 to present day. More info
  • JSTOR
    Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads. More info
  • PAIS Index
    Provides citations, with some abstracts, to more than 3,000 sources including articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters about public affairs. More info
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers
    Offers full text and full image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British newspapers (1764-2005). More info
  • Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
    Thematically organized, historical archive devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. More info
  • Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice
    Online primary source materials including manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps, and other documents for the study of slavery, abolition, and social justice. More info
  • Sociological Abstracts
    Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines, providing abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications. More info

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