Africana Studies

Databases with U.S. and Global Content

America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new window
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) This link opens in a new window
EconLit (Economics Literature) This link opens in a new window
Eight Centuries (formerly Nineteenth Century Masterfile) This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window
Public Affairs Index This link opens in a new window
RILM Music Literature Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Science Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window

Collections with content specific to the United States

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 by Newsbank This link opens in a new window
African American Newspapers: the 19th Century by History Commons This link opens in a new window
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African American Song This link opens in a new window
American National Biography This link opens in a new window
Civil War Collection, Part I, A Newspaper Perspective by History Commons This link opens in a new window
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Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) This link opens in a new window
HarpWeek: the Civil War Era 1857-77 This link opens in a new window
HistoryMakers This link opens in a new window
Produced by a non-profit institution whose purpose is to record, preserve and disseminate the content of video oral history interviews highlighting the accomplishments of individual African Americans and African-American-led groups and movements. Interviews date from 1993 to the present.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window
Part 3 explores the inner workings of slavery from 1492 to 1888. Through legal documents, plantation records, first-person accounts, newspapers, government records, and other primary sources, this collection reveals how enslaved people struggled against the institution. These rare works explore slavery as a legal and labor system, the relationship between slavery and religion, freed slaves, the Shong Massacre, the Demerara insurrection, and more.
Part 4 includes numerous rare documents related to emancipation in the United States, as well as Latin America and the Caribbean. This collection supports the study of many areas, including activities of the federal government in dealing with former slaves and the Freedmen's Bureau, views of political parties and post-war problems with the South, documents of the British and French government on the slave trade, reports from the West Indies and Africa, and other topics.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new window