Online Databases


Some of these databases can be accessed from home for instructions on what is available and
information on accessing them please follow this link.  


America: History and Life 
Custom Newspapers
Expanded Academic ASAP
History Resource Center: US
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

      

Internet Resources  
 

 
African Americans in the Visual Arts
African Art World.Com
Afro-American Web Connection
Amistad Links
Black Film Center/Archive
Breaking Racial Barriers
Museum of Afro-American History - Boston

Selected Periodicals  



African American Review     
African Arts
African Music
Black Music Research Journal
Black Scholar
Journal of Black Studies
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Reference Sources  



African American historic places                                                                                                  
Ref. E 185 .A2534      

Black literature criticism : excerpts from criticism of the most significant 
works of Black authors over the past 200 years 
Ref. PS 153.N5 B556 

Black women writers (1950-1980) : a critical evaluation
Ref. PS 153.N5 B558

Blacks in opera : an encyclopedia of people and companies, 1873-1993
Ref. ML 102.O6 S6

Chronology of African-American history : significant events and people from 1619 to the present 
Ref. E 185 .H64 

Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights : from emancipation to the present
Ref. E 185.61 .E54

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history
Ref.  E 185 .E54

Modern African American writers 
Ref. Z 1229.N39 M63 

The Negro in American History                                                                                                 
Ref. E 185 .N4

 
Call Numbers 



E 184.5 – 185.98              African American History

E 185.2 – 185.89              Status and development since emancipation

E 185.96 – 185.98            Biography, genealogy