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Use our Gateway Search to search all of our databases or choose a specific database to narrow your search. Below are a few specific databases that you may want to try. For resources or assistance searching our databases please go to the Help tab.
Contains 12,000 poems by more than 100 African-American poets, including Audre Lorde, Langston Hughes, Rita Dove, and emerging poets. Biographical profiles accompany each poets work.
Includes the full text of almost 3000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. African-American Poetry is a resource for literary scholars and for researchers in black studies, linguistics, women's studies, black literary heritage, and comparative studies. The poetry explores a multitude of topics, including abolition, children, civil rights, dreams, education, fugitive slave law, Indian raids, liberty, political issues, prejudice, and slavery.
The database includes allegories, broadsides, children's poems, elegiac poems, epics, hymns, odes, patriotic poems, and sonnets. The poets are among those included in the William French et al. bibliography, Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975. The full-text of the poems is included and is fully searchable. For modern African-American poetry, see 20th Century African-American Poetry
America: History and Life is the index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is an important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
A collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. The Historical Periodicals Collection contains digitized images of periodicals from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, covering a variety of topics.
Caribbean Search is the most extensive research database of full-text content pertaining to the countries and people of the Caribbean. Covering all areas of Caribbean study, it includes hundreds of full-text journals, magazines, newspapers, reports and reference books.
More than 770 full-text scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports and reference books
Extensive data on the current status and history of geographic regions
Graphs, diagrams and images
Select Journal and Periodical Titles
This list is by no means exhaustive. These journal titles can give the researcher some research from reputable sources.
In the African American history class it is required that a paper be written exploring the topic of student’s choice within the larger subject materials within the class. To search well, please utilize good research strategies enclosed within the general search guides.
Physical Books located in our Library Collection
This list is by no means exhaustive. It gives the researcher/student some basic ideas to get their research started.