Black Studies

Index to journal articles, conference papers, books and book chapters in sociology and and related fields such as cultural anthropology and criminal justice; includes full text from over 800 journals and over 800 books, as well as 1400 conference papers.

Includes Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation. Includes indexing and cited references for items published 1900-present.

Articles from selected popular magazines and scholarly journals in all disciplines.

Index to 300+ periodicals published in 29 African countries.

The Anthropology Library and Research Centre at the British Museum, holds some 4,000 periodical titles (1,500 current) covering all branches and areas of anthropology from the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Index to "approximately 25,000 scholarly works in all academic disciplines and in all western European languages on slavery and slaving, worldwide and throughout human history, including modern times."

Features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres.

Full text of over 350 African American newspapers published throughout the U.S. from 1827-1998, documenting the African American experience through coverage of African American history, culture, and daily life.

Includes a dozen important African American newspapers. Dates range from 1827-1919. For a more comprehensive collection with over 350 papers, see: African American Newspapers, Series 1 &2 (Readex)

Includes newspapers published in the District of Columbia, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia that were published by and for the African American community.

Primary source materials on African-Americans during the Reconstruction era in American history.

Primary source materials on African-Americans during the Jim Crow era in American history.

Thousands of American periodicals in all subject areas published from 1691-1877.

Primary source materials on the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions, and events of North, Central, and South America and the West Indies, covering the Americas from early European exploration through 1926. Includes books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, sermons, political writings, newspapers, literature, and more.

Historic archive of the New York Times newspaper from 1851-4 years ago. Includes the complete indexes from 1851-1993 in addition to full-text searching. For current articles, choose the New York Times database.

Online edition of Harper's Weekly, a newspaper including editorials and illustrations. Covers 1857-1877.

Searchable full text of the Times of London newspaper from 1785 through 6 years ago.

Full text of 10 of the most important 20th century popular news and business magazines: Time, Life, U.S. News & World Report, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The National Review, Forbes, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Coverage is from the beginning of each magazine, with varying ending dates.

This multidisciplinary database covers Latin American and Caribbean culture and society from the fifteenth century to the present day.

This database allows easy creation of maps and tables using social, demographic, economic, environmental, and health data covering a wide range of time periods. U.S. and international data is included. Please note: limited to 3 simultaneous users, so try again in a few minutes if you cannot get in right away.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research provides access to the world's largest social science data archive, with data sets from over 6,300 studies. Labs on campus have SPSS, which you need to open data sets.