Selected Resources for:
African-American Studies

Web of Science   

http://0-isiknowledge.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/wos

1980- .

Multidisciplinary database that indexes and abstracts journals in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and sciences.

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America: History & Life   

http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ahl

1954- .

Indexes scholarly materials in American and Canadian history.

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Humanities Full Text   

http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=HUMFT

1984- .

Indexes the major scholarly English-language journals in the humanities. For prior years, use Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective

International Index to Black Periodicals  

http://0-iibp.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

1902-

Indexes over 150 multidisciplinary journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Full-text coverage of 25 core black studies periodicals from 1998 on.

Social Sciences Full Text   

http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=SSFT

1985-

Indexes major scholarly journals in the social sciences. For prior years, use Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective .

Academic Search Premier   

http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph

1965- (varies).

Includes multidisciplinary materials from both popular and scholarly sources; many are full-text.

Alternative Press Index   

http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=AltPressIndex;screen=advanced;done=http://www.library.georgetown.edu;FSIP

1991- .

Indexes and abstracts over 250 alternative, radical, and left leaning journals, newspapers and magazines from the U.S. and abroad. Coverage is from 1991 on; to access earlier materials, use Alternative Press Index Archive

Location: Lauinger Library 3rd floor Ref Stacks, AI3.A27 vols. 1- . 1969- .

Ethnic News Watch. 1990-   

http://0-proquest.umi.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login?COPT=U0ZEPTImU01EPTYmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTM4M0U@&clientId=5604

1990- .

Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press.

JSTOR   

http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu

Full-text of scholarly journals in a number of fields. Does not include the most recent 3-5 years. For more recent articles, use one of the other indexes listed in this section.

Proquest Research Library   

http://0-proquest.umi.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login?COPT=U01EPTYmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPUc2KzE5RSsxOUYrMUEwKzFBMSsxQTIrMUEzKzFBNCsxQTUrMUE2KzFBNysyMTgrMUFBKzFBQisxQUMrMUFE&clientId=5604

1980s- (varies).

Includes multidisciplinary materials from both popular and scholarly sources; many are full-text.

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African American Biographical Database (AABD)  

http://0-aabd.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

Biographies of thousands of famous and ordinary African Americans.

Pan-African Chronology: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia  

1996

A detailed chronology of the African diaspora, presenting its political, economic, social, and cultural aspects from a global perspective in three volumes: 1400-1865, 1865-1915, and 1918-1929.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E 185.18 .J46 1996

Timetables of African-American History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in African-American History.  

1995

A chronology noting the social, cultural, and intellectual contributions of African-Americans.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E 185 .H295 1995

Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience  

2005

Covers every facet of Africa and the African diaspora, with a focus on African-American political, social, and cultural history.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks DT 14 .A37435 2005

Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature  

http://0-www.oxfordreference.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t52

2001

Includes descriptions of major works, prominent literary characters, and author biographies.

Encyclopedia of African and African American Religions  

2001

Profiles of individuals, denominations, churches, organizations, schools, and movements of significance to African-American religious life.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks BR 563 .N4 E53 1993

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History  

http://0-find.galegroup.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=0028660714&version=1.0&userGroupName=wash43584&source=gale

2006

Covers the African American experience from 1619 to the mid-1990s.

Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration  

Contains 400 essays that explore the causes, experiences, and consequences of the Great Migration as well as 76 primary source documents taken from contemporary newspapers, literary works, memoirs, and other sources.

Location: Ref. E185.6 .E54 2006

African American Music Reference  

http://0-aamr.alexanderstreet.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

Includes reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies of various African American musical forms.

New York Public Library African American Desk Reference  

1999

Covers topics such as slavery, civil rights, business, religion, education, law, science and technology, the arts, and sports. Includes many charts, quotations, tables, and timelines.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E 185 .N49 1999

Reference Materials for African American Studies  

http://catalog.library.georgetown.edu/search/X?SEARCH=(african%20american)&searchscope=4&SORT=D&b=rf

This is a list of reference materials related to African American studies. Some are quite broad, while others are more specific; all will help you find background information on your topic. To find other reference materials, try doing a search in GEORGE and limiting the location to "LAU Reference."

Location: LAU Ref Stacks

African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture  

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

Bibliographic essays, arranged chronologically, highlight materials from the general and special collections of the Library of Congress.

Location: Gov. Docs. LC 1.6/4:AF8

Harvard Guide to African American History  

2001

Twelve essays provide overviews of archival collections, tools, and resources for doing research using such materials as manuscripts, newspapers, music, and photographs. Following these is an extensive bibliography arranged by time period and by topics.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E 185 .H326 2001

Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986  

1948-1986

A monumental publication in providing bibliographic access to African-American resources.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks Z 1361.N39 K34 1992

GEORGE   

http://catalog.library.georgetown.edu/

Georgetown's library catalog; use to find books, multimedia, government documents, and whether or not we own a specific journal.

WorldCat   

http://0-newfirstsearch.oclc.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/autho=100161383;dbname=WorldCat;screen=advanced;done=http://www.library.georgetown.edu;FSIP

Contains records for over 60,000 libraries worldwide. A publicly accessible version is available at http://www.worldcat.org/.

WRLC Catalog  

http://catalog.wrlc.org/

Catalog of the Washington Research Library Consortium. Georgetown students may borrow directly from WRLC libraries or request items through the catalog.

Historical Statistics of Black America  

1995

Statistical data on the African-American experience from the 18th century to 1975, arranged chronologically. Covers topics such as agriculture, slavery, families, and population and vital statistics.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E 185 .H543 1995

Statistical Record of Black America  

1997

Covers statistical data from 1975 through the mid-1990s. Arranged by broad subject categories.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E 185.5 .S83 1997

American Memory  

http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress's Americana collections.

Internet Archive  

http://www.archive.org/index.php

The Internet Archive offers permanent access for researchers, historians and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. It includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages. Includes Project Gutenberg.

Academic Info  

http://www.academicinfo.net/africanam.html

Annotated directory of Internet resources on black history.

In Motion: The African American Migration Experience  

http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm

Produced by the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library, this website presents information and resources on thirteen important migrations, showing their importance to the history and culture of African Americans in the United States. Includes images, maps, essays, primary sources, glossary, bibliographies, website links, and lengthy narratives describing each migration.

African American Song  

http://0-georgetown4.classical.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu

Online collection of over 16,000 music tracks from the first half of the 20th century. Includes a variety of styles including ragtime, blues, gospel, jazz, folk songs, and narratives.

Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture  

http://anacostia.si.edu/

A museum of the Smithsonian Institution, the website links to a number of resources.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture  

http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

The Schomburg Center provides several digitized primary source collections and online exhibits as well as information about its research collection in New York City.

Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective  

http://0-www.accessible.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/search/prdcls.asp?s=525842350

November 1860 - April 1865

Full-text collection of Civil War era articles from the Charleston Mercury, the New York Herald, and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.

Discovering American Women's History  

http://library.mtsu.edu/digitalprojects/womenshistory.php

This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas's photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century.

Proquest Civil War Era   

http://0-proquest.umi.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU2MmEmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=5604

1840-1865

Contains nearly 2,000 slavery, anti-slavery, and Civil War pamphlets and the complete runs of eight regional newspapers covering 1840-1865. Cross-searchable with other historical newspapers and the American Periodicals Series.

RefWorks  

http://0-www.refworks.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/refworks

RefWorks is an online research management, writing, and collaboration tool designed to help researchers gather, manage, store, and share information and generate citations and bibliographies.