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A massive multidisciplinary resource with an abundance of full text. Abstracts and indexes 10,000+ journals and includes the full text of 6,500+ journals. 9000+ of the journals are peer-reviewed.
Coverage dates: Varies.

Proquest Databases

Search all Proquest databases: historical newspapers, other primary sources, dissertations, current periodicals, etc. from a single page. Documents can be limited to desired source(s) from the results list.
Coverage dates: 15th century - present.

More databases for Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies

African American Biographical Database

Biographies, rare books, and historical information on thousands of African-Americans.
Coverage dates: 1790-1950.

African American Studies Center Online (Oxford)

Reference source for African American Studies. Limited to 3 users at once.
Coverage dates: 1619 - Current.

African Diaspora

International primary, secondary source documents, and video curated for the Black Studies, African American History, and World History scholar.
Coverage dates: 1860 - Present.

Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)

Black newspaper from the South.
Coverage dates: 1931-2003.

Bibliography of Native North Americans

Index of books and articles published about Native Americans.
Coverage dates: 16th century - Current.

Black Abolitionist Papers

Primary source collection of African Americans efforts to abolish slavery. With 15,000 writings and publications of nearly 300 black abolitionists from 1830-1865.
Coverage dates: 1830-1865.

Black Studies Center

Collection of primary and secondary sources that record and illuminate the Black experience, from ancient Africa through modern times. Includes dissertations and video of history makers.
Coverage dates: 1600- present.

Black Thought and Culture

Collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders covering 250 years of history.
Coverage dates: 18th century to present.

Bloomsbury Popular Music

Interactive multi-disciplinary resource with text articles and biographies of leading pop music artists including the entire 33 1/3 book series and the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Also contains a dynamic timeline, world map and other visual tools charting the history of popular music with relevant article links.
Coverage dates: 1900 - present.

Early Encounters in North America

Contains narratives, diaries, journals, and letters documenting the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women.
Coverage dates: 1534-1850.

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) contains more than 500 key Latin American journal articles with information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States dating back to 1970. It contains complete bibliographic citations and limited full text.
Coverage dates: 1970 - Current.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980

The single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. Including many newspapers published bilingually in Spanish and English. As part of the America's Historical Newspapers, Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 can be cross-searched with other historical collections.
Coverage dates: 1808 - 1980.

Humanities International Index

Indexes and abstracts over 2000 titles in the humanities from articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
Coverage dates: 1925 - Current.

JSTOR

Cross-disciplinary, scholarly electronic journal collection containing the full text of back issues of journals in many different subject areas. Also includes thousands of eBooks. Especially strong in Arts and Sciences.
Coverage dates: Varies.

Los Angeles Sentinel

70 years of cover-to-cover reporting of the Los Angeles Sentinel forms a unique cultural perspective of the Los Angeles African-American community.
Coverage dates: 1934 - 2005.

NBC Learn

Access news videos about historical and current events on a variety of topics.
Coverage dates: 1950 - Current.

New York Amsterdam News

Over 70 years of cover-to-cover coverage of the New Amsterdam News, the nation's leading black newspapers and one of New York’s most influential black-owned institutions.
Coverage dates: 1922 - 1993.

Newspapers.com

Search historical newspapers from across the United States and beyond.
Coverage dates: 1700s - 2000s.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories

Personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada with more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories.

The Philadelphia Tribune

This historical newspaper provides researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage dates: 1912 - 2001.

Pittsburgh Courier

Prominent black newspaper from the east.
Coverage dates: 1911-2002.

Project MUSE

Provides full-text to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Every journal is peer-reviewed.
Coverage dates: Varies.

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives

Video and textual personal accounts by the people who experienced firsthand the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America.
Coverage dates: 1960 - 1974.

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice contains both primary source documents and secondary sources for research and teaching; including an interactive map, scholarly essays, tutorials, a visual sources gallery, chronology and bibliography.
Coverage dates: 1490-2007.

Social Sciences Citation Index

A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of social sciences; full bibliographic and cited reference data. Disciplines include: communication, education, geography, history of social sciences, law, political science, public health, social issues, sociology.
Coverage dates: 1956 - Current.

Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family

View American social history through the lens of advice literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century.
Coverage dates: 1900-2000.

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