Select African American History Resources

Selected Library of Congress Subject Headings 

Book and Non-print materials can be identified by using FSU's Automated Catalog. 

Selected Reference and Archives Sources

Selected Main Stacks Sources

Series Titles - Do a Title Search on the Series Title in the Online Catalog to Access the Individual Titles 

Article Databases Where African American Related Topics Can Be Researched

Academic Search Elite  
(Indexing: 1984+, full-text: 1990+). Indexing and abstracts of scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more.

African American Poetry  
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Indexed from 1750 to 1900

America: History Life  
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

American National Biography  
The premier biographical resource for notable people in American history. Click on the "Subscribers Click Here" link in the menu at the top of the page.

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography  
A collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States compiled through nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.

Anthropological Index Online  
(1970-current). Citations to publications in the field of anthropology with search engine.

Articles First  
Indexes journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index  
Index to biographical sketches found in current and retrospective biographical dictionaries.

Books in Print  
(Current). Contains current, detailed information on more than 1.9 million titles: author, titles, ISBN, price, publisher, binding, language, illustrations, contact information for publishers, wholesalers, distributors, and much more.

Britannica Online  
The complete encyclopedia, with related Internet sites and more. Encyclopedia Britannica.

Dissertation Abstracts  
(Indexing: 1861+, Abstracting Dissertations: 1980+, Abstracting Theses: 1988+). The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions.

Ebsco Electronic Journal Service (EJS)  
Provides access to full-text of many of FSU's online journal subscriptions and also EJS Journals via pay per view. Includes searching in article titles, journal titles, abstracts, full-text and title list browsing.

Ebscohost  

ECO  
(Electronic Collection Online). An OCLC collection of scholarly journals.

Ethnic News Watch  
News Culture and History from 200+ Publications of the Ethnic, Minority, and Native Press (On Campus Access Only)

FirstSearch  
A collection of online databases licensed for use by FSU students, faculty and staff.

Gale Virtual Reference Library  
A database of E-Book reference titles.

Global Newsbank  
(1996-current). Newspaper articles from around the world. Newsbank

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books  
(1981-current). International legal information covering all areas of jurisprudence.

JSTOR  
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe  
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information.

Master File Premier  
Provides full text for over 1,770 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals.

MLA International Bibliography  
(1963-current). Indexes periodical articles on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore.

NCLIVE  
A core group of reference and research materials online in the form of full-text electronic information and indexes.

North American Women’s Letters and Diaries  
Over 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of women. Remote access coming soon. Contains materials from Colonial times to 1950.

PAIS International  
(1972-current). Citations to public policy literature of economics, government, law, international business, political science, public administration, and other social sciences.

Periodical Abstracts  
(1987-current). Abstracts from general and academic journals, covering business, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, and others.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses- Full Text  
More than two million dissertation and theses from 1861 to the present, many of them full text.

Reader’s Guide  
(Indexing: 1983+, Abstracting: 1984+). Abstracts of articles from popular magazines.

Readers Guide Retro  
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

Scribner Writers Series  
1,564 essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods. Many authors are seen from multiple perspectives in two, three, or even four essays

SIRS Researcher  
(Indexing: 1988+, Summaries: 1994+). Thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues.

Wilson Select Plus  
(1994-current). Contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online.

World Cat  
Union catalog of materials held in libraries world-wide. Coverage: Updated regularly.

Selected Journal Titles

Selected Web Sites

1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission

About African American History.Com

An African American Album, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County

African American Mosaic

African American Odyssey: a Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel P. Murray Collection 1818-1907, Library of Congress

African American Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia

Africans in America

AFRO-American Almanac

American Slave Narratives:  an Online Anthology, University of Virginia

Antislavery Literature Project

Black History Hotlist

Documenting the American South