Library Guides: African American Studies: Articles

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America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Indexes journals from as far back as 1910.

America: History & Life is the definitive 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.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Includes indexing and full text for more than 3,500 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study in the social sciences and humanities. Coverage varies considerably, title by title. Increasingly full text is available for important titles for the last decade.

This database includes full text for over 4,500 publications as well as images, for nearly every academic field of study. Full text coverage is especially strong in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion, and theology. In addition there are over 8,200 abstracted and indexed journals, over 7,000 of which are peer-reviewed.
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles published in over 4,500 periodicals in 37 subject areas in the humanities and social sciences. Includes numerous foreign-language titles, and many older, long-ceased titles. Topical indexing appears to be mainly from title words. See Black Studies titles.

An archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Coverage is from as early as 1665.
American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900 This link opens in a new window

Part of Nineteenth Century Index. Full-text of over 1,000 periodicals, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and other historically-significant periodicals.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Core database in sociology. Provides access to research in sociology and related disciplines. Includes citations since 1963 (and abstracts since 1974) for articles in over 1,500 journals.

Provides access to research in sociology and related disciplines. Includes citations since 1963 (and abstracts since 1974) for articles in over 1,500 journals.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers poli sci and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.

Covers the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
Readers' Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new window

Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

Covers 1890 1982

Journals

E-Journals database This link opens in a new window
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The Black Collegian Online
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Published since 1970, the Black Collegian provides free access to the magazine and a number of useful resources for college and graduate students, such as articles on graduate schools, career outlooks and reports, and job search strategies. Along with browsing the Black Collegian archives (dating back to 1997), visitors may also elect to view articles organized by theme, such as global study programs, African-American issues, and extra- curriculars.
Project Muse African American and African Diaspora Studies titles
JSTOR African American Studies titles

Harper's Weekly This link opens in a new window

Leading American source for news and opinion during the middle years of the 19th century. From Finding Aids, select a Topic to see lists of subjects.

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