LibGuides: Virtual Reference: African and African American Studies

Reference Works

General Information

JSTOR
Full-text articles in over 375 core academic journals with back-files lacking only the most recent 3 -5 years.
Project MUSE
Provides online access to the full-text of over 200 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Proquest Central
General reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.

African, African American Studies, and History Specific

African Studies Companion
The African Studies Companion seeks to bring together a wide range of sources of information in the African studies field.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law Essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world.
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
A comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples.
Historical Statistics of the United States
The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history.

Sociology & Anthropology

Sociology Database
Sociological and social work research including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction, and more.
CQ Researcher
The CQ Researcher provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world.
Statistical Abstracts of the United States
An authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.

Newspapers

Poetry

African American Poetry
Poems from 1750-1900 including Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and more.
Faber Poetry Library
Find poems written by modern poets such as Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Tom Paulin, Sylvia Plath and more.
Twentieth-Century African American Poetry
A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the twentieth century.
Twentieth-Century American Poetry
A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present.

Biography

Biography Reference Center
More than 450,000 biographies, including actors, authors, explorers, historical figures, inventors, musicians, Presidents of the United States, scientists and many others.