Subject Guide » Africana /African American Studies
Digital Collections
11 resources available.
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African American Biographical Database Biographical profiles, full-text sketches and photographs of prominent African Americans from all walks of life between 1790-1950.
African American Music Reference Contains more than 12,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Covers blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. AAMR links to the online listening database African American Song, so users may listen to associated music that accompanies the liner notes and album information in the database.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century Eventually this database will contain the full-text of major 19th century African-American newspapers providing first-hand stories by way of biographies as well as statistics, essays, editorials, and advertisements serving as primary source historical documentation. Search individual newspapers or group together.
African American Song More than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Documents the history of African American music. Contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.
American Memory Multimedia collections from the Library of Congress of digitized documents, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, and texts. Over 100 collections, including, for example, African-American pamphlets, Chautauqua flyers, Depression photographs, Coca-Cola advertising, and the papers of Alexander Graham Bell, to name just a few.
Black Drama, 2nd edition This full-text resource consists of 1,300 plays from the mid-1800s to the present written by 200 African or African-American playwrights. Each play is indexed by keyword and by numerous subjects. Enhanced by reference materials, ancillary information and images. Updated quarterly.
Black Short Fiction Contains approximately 4,919 stories and folktales by 435 African, African American, and Caribbean authors. When complete the collection will contain approximately 8000 works. Most of the stories are in English, but some French, Portuguese, and Gullah language stories will also be included. Users may search the fiction database by keyword, title, author, language and date.
Black Thought and Culture A digital collection of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975.
HarpWeek Full-text as well as images from the important American magazine Harper's Weekly. Coverage: 1857-1912.
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience This multimedia database contains, the full text of essays and articles, a timeline, videos, and images of the African experience throughout the Americas.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition A collection of full text books, articles, documents and images of American women's reform movements over the last 400 years including special subjects such as African-American Women, the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the Equal Rights Debate in the 1920s.
The Scholar's Edition will also include an indexed, searchable online edition of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (5 vols, 1971-2004), fully integrated into the broader Women and Social Movements database.
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Last updated: August 2007
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