See also other library web pages for American
Literature, Chicago Jazz
Archive, History, Political
Science, and Sociology
.
This page seeks to direct users chiefly to networked information sources provided
by the University of Chicago Library to its users. For links to free services
and resources on the web, see Selected Internet Resources
for African American Studies, below.
Indexing, abstracting, and full-text services for African American Studies
General periodical indexes, typically including full texts of articles from many titles.
Ebsco
Academic Search Premier. Includes indexing and full text for
more than 3,500 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study in the
social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language
and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Coverage varies considerably, title by title. Increasingly full text is available
for important titles for the last decade.
The JSTOR Journal Browser. Search full-text of major academic journals
from their first volumes up through recent years, including a select list of
titles for African American Studies and
titles for African studies. One may search
by natural language or browse each issue.
Project Muse. Provides full-text access to recent volumes of over 40 journals in the humanities and social sciences published by Johns Hopkins University Press and over 50 journals of other university presses, including a numerous titles pertaining to African American Studies.
Wilson Select Plus. Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full text in periodicals from General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, Wilson Business Abstracts and many other databases produced by H.W. Wilson, 1994+.
Periodicals Contents Index Full Text (PCI). Indexes the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1990/1991. Contains some full text.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature,
Retrospective. Readers' Guide Retrospective provides indexing
of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States.
Coverage: 1890-1982; contains some full text.
American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900. Project includes digitized
images of pages from 1,100 American periodicals, including 89 journals published
between 1740 and 1800; more than 900 titles from 1800 to 1860; and 118 periodicals
published during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, and titles beginning
publication from the 1880's through 1900. As of this writing, project includes
full-text content from 750 periodicals. All numbers of titles included in the
project will be digitized, even those which extend well past 1900. For details
of current coverage, click here,
and click on "List all periodicals." Full-text is searchable, with
high accuracy for 19th century materials, less accuracy for 18th century materials.
America: History and Life.
Includes abstracts and indexes for African American history appearing in 2,000
journals published worldwide from 1954. Database also includes citations to
abstracts of dissertations published in these areas. Database updated monthly.
MLA:
Modern Language Association Bibliography; 1963-. The primary
resource for literary research; indexes over 4,000 journals in the fields of
literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Coverage begins with 1963
and the database is updated 10 times per year; for coverage from 1921 on consult
print at Z7006.M67 Gen.
Sociological
Abstracts. Fundamental guide to literature of sociology, including such
areas as community development, culture and social structure, family and social
welfare, social psychology and group interactions, demography, welfare services.
Abstracts journal articles, books, and conference papers; indexes book reviews
published since 1963. Updated quarterly.
Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts (1975+) supplies up-to-date bibliographic
information and research within the political science discipline and its complementary
fields.
Art Abstracts, (1984+) indexing more than
300 key, international arts publications. Subjects include archaeology, architecture,
art history, city planning, computer applications, crafts, film, folk art, graphic
arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, musicology,
painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles and video.
Francis: International Humanities and Social Studies. Produced by Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS) and the Getty Research Institute (GRI), Francis indexes over 4000 multilingual, multidisciplinary journals in the humanities, social sciences, and economics. Updated monthly, coverage begins with 1984.
IBZ: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur aus allen Gebieten des Wissens. International in coverage, the IBZ includes journal articles from over 11,000 English and European periodicals, books, and dissertations. From the main database page, select IBZ-Online with ordering (most current version), but ordering is not an option for the University of Chicago. Coverage begins with 1984.
Indexes and services including full text of journal articles
Electronic Journals List.
An alphabetic listing of electronic journals available through the University
of Chicago Library. Provides information on availability of full-text
coverage. Identifies titles available directly from publishers' websites
(such as the University of Chicago Press), and from aggregators, such as Johns
Hopkins' Project Muse, The History Cooperative, and the indexing
and full-text services listed immediately below.
The JSTOR Journal Browser. Search
full-text of major historical journals from their first volumes up through
recent years. One may search by natural language or browse each issue. Images
of each page are viewable and printable. As of this writing coverage extends
to:
- African American Studies
African American Review 1992-1999
BBBBBBlack American Literature Forum 1976-1991
BBBBBNegro American Literature Forum 1967-1976
Callaloo 1976-1994
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 1993-2000
Journal of Negro Education 1932-1997
Journal of Negro History 1916-1999
Phylon (1960-) 1960-1987
BBBBBPhylon Quarterly 1957-1959
BBBBBPhylon (1940-1956) 1940-1956
Transition 1961-1999 (includes links to recent content 2000-2001)
African Studies
African Affairs 1944-1997
BBBBBJournal of the Royal African Society 1901-1944
African Languages and Cultures. Supplement 1992-1996
African Studies Review 1970-1999
BBBBBAfrican Studies Bulletin 1958-1969
ASA Review of Books 1975-1980
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1940-1997
BBBBBBulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London 1917-1940
Canadian Journal of African Studies 1967-1997
BBBBBBulletin of African Studies in Canada 1963-1966
International Journal of African Historical Studies 1972-1999
BBBBBAfrican Historical Studies 1968-1971
Journal of African Cultural Studies 1998-1999
BBBBBAfrican Languages and Cultures 1988-1997
Journal of African History 1960-1997
Journal of Modern African Studies 1963-1997
Journal of Southern African Studies 1974-1999
Transition 1961-1999 (plus links to recent content 2000-2001)
Other titles of special interest
American Historical Review 1895-1999
American Quarterly 1949-1995 (plus links to recent content 1996-2002)
Journal of American History 1964-1999; earlier Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1914-1964
Journal of Southern History 1935-1996
Reviews in American History 1973-1994 (plus links to recent content 1995-2002)
William and Mary Quarterly 1892-2000
- A growing number of other important journals in other fields, such as economics,
ecology, demography, political science, etc. are also searchable from this location.
(Restricted to University of Chicago readers).
Periodicals Archive Online (formerly known as Periodicals Contents Index Full Text -- PCI). Provides full-text articles from some 350 periodicals in 37 subject areas in the humanities and social sciences, in many cases from the first issues through the mid-1990's. One may search by author, title, or words appearing in the full text.
Periodicals Index Online (formerly known as Periodicals Contents Index -- PCI). Indexes articles published in over 4,500 periodicals in 37 subject areas in the humanities and social sciences, indexing each included title from the first issue to its terminal date, or through the mid-1990's. Includes numerous foreign-language titles, and many older, long-ceased titles. Topical indexing appears to be mainly from title words, or translations of words in the article titles. Titles of particular African American interest include the following.Abbotts Monthly, 1930-1933
AfroAmericans in New York Life and History, 1977-
Afroamérica, 1945-1946
Alexander's Magazine, 1905-1909
American Visions, 1986-
Amistad, 1970-1971
Black Enterprise, 1970-
Black Man, 1933-1939
BBBBBBlackman, Dec. 1933-Nov. 1934
Black Perspective in Music, 1973-1990
Black Scholar, 1969-
Black World, 1942-1976
BBBBBNegro digest, Nov. 1942-Apr. 1970
CLA Journal, 1957-
Colored American Magazine, 1900-1909
Competitor, 1920-1921
Crisis, 1910-
Crusader (New York), 1918-1922
BBBBBCrusader magazine, Sept. 1918-Aug. 1919
Griot, 1981-
Half-Century Magazine, 1916-1925
Harlem Quarterly, 1949-1950
International Review of African American Art, 1976-
BBBBBBlack Art, 1976-1984
Jet, 1951-
Journal of Afro-American Issues, 1972-
Journal of Negro Education, 1932-
Journal of Negro History, 1916-
Midwest Journal, 1948-1956
National Black Law Journal, 1971-
BBBBBThe Black Law Journal, 1971-1986
National Education Outlook Among Negroes, 1937-1940
Negro Educational Review, 1950-
Negro History Bulletin, 1937-
Negro Music Journal, 1902-1903
Negro Story, 1944-1946
Opportunity, 1923-1949
Quarterly Review of Higher Education among Negroes, 1933-1969
Review of Black Political Economy, 1970-
Slavery and Abolition, 1980-
Urban League Review, 1975-
Voice, 1904-1907
BBBBBVoice of the Negro, 1904-1906- Project
Muse. Provides full-text access to recent volumes of over 40
journals in the humanities and social sciences published by Johns Hopkins University
Press and over 50 journals of other university presses. As of this writing coverage
extends to (dates vary, but includes most recent issues):
Africa Today
American Annals of the Deaf
American Imago
American Literary History
American Literary Scholarship
American Literature
American Quarterly
American Studies
Biography
boundary 2
Callaloo
Civil War History
College Literature
Comparative Literature Studies
Configurations
CR: The New Centennial Review
Criticism
Diacritics
Early American Literature
Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review
Economia
Eighteenth-Century Life
Eighteenth-Century Studies
ELH
Ethnohistory
French Colonial History
French Forum
French Historical Studies
Hispanic American Historical Review
History & Memory
History of Political Economy
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Hopscotch: A Cultural Review (archive-only)
Human Rights Quarterly
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Journal of Democracy
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Journal of Modern Literature
Journal of Policy History
Journal of Social History
Journal of the History of Ideas
Journal of World History
Latin American Research Review (new for 2003)
Latin American Studies
MFS Modern Fiction Studies
MLN
MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly
Modernism/modernity
Narrative
Nepantla: Views from South
New Hibernia Review
New Literary History
NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture
Nineteenth Century French Studies
Northeast African Studies
Philosophy & Public Affairs
Philosophy and Literature
Poetics Today
Radical History Review
Research in African Literatures
Resources for American Literary Study (archive-only)
Reviews in American History
Social Forces
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society
Social Science History
Southern Cultures
SubStance
symploke
The Americas
The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics (archive-only)
The South Atlantic Quarterly
The Southern Literary Journal
The Washington Quarterly
The Yale Journal of Criticism
Theory & Event
Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
Transition (archive-only)
World PoliticsEbsco Academic Search Premier. Includes indexing and full text for more than 300 journals for history, as well as full text for an additional 3,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study in the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Coverage varies considerably, title by title. Increasingly full text is available for important titles for the last decade.
Africa 03/01/75 to present
Africa Today 01/01/90 to present
African & Asian Studies 01/01/02 to present
African American Review 01/01/92 to present
African Arts 01/01/90 to present
African Development Review 06/01/99 to present
African Journal of Ecology 03/01/98 to present
African Philosophy 03/01/00 to 12/31/00
African Security Review 01/01/02 to present
African Studies 07/01/99 to present
African Zoology 01/01/00 to present
American Historical Review 02/01/75 to present
American Legacy: Celebrating African American History & Culture 06/01/98 to 12/31/01
American Nineteenth Century History 01/01/00 to present
Blacfax 01/01/90 to present
Black Collegian 03/01/90 to present
Black Enterprise 05/01/90 to present
Black History Bulletin 01/01/02 to present
Black Issues Book Review 07/01/99 to present
Black Issues in Higher Education 07/01/96 to present
Black Scholar Black 06/01/91 to present
Black Theology in Britain 10/01/98 to 10/31/02
Black Theology 11/01/02 to present
Crisis 06/01/93 to 02/28/96
Crisis (The New) 07/01/97 to present
Critical Arts Journal 01/01/92 to present
Ebony 01/01/93 to present
Essence 01/01/92 to present
Ethnic & Racial Studies 01/01/92 to present
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 01/01/98 to present
International Journal of African Historical Studies 07/01/96 to present
Journal of African American History11/01/02 to present
Journal of African American Men 01/01/99 to present
Journal of African Cultural Studies 01/01/98 to present
Journal of African Languages & Linguistics 04/01/01 to present
Journal of American Ethnic History 01/01/90 to present
Journal of Asian & African Studies 07/01/93 to 12/31/01
Journal of Asian & African Studies 01/01/02 to present
Journal of Contemporary African Studies 01/01/98 to present
Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies 07/01/98 to present
Journal of Religion in Africa 02/01/99 to present
Journal of Religious Thought 03/01/75 to present
Journal of Southern African Studies 03/01/90 to present
Nationalism & Ethnic Politics 01/01/00 to present
New African 07/01/00 to present
New Coin Poetry 06/01/02 to present
Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies 05/01/99 to present
Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa 09/01/01 to present
Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library 01/01/95 to 08/31/01
Race, Ethnicity & Education 03/01/99 to present
Research in African Literatures 01/01/93 to present
Society in Transition 01/01/97 to present
South African Archives Journal 06/01/90 to present
South African Journal of African Languages 01/01/95 to present
South African Journal of Ethnology 07/01/94 to 12/31/01
South African Journal of Linguistics 01/01/95 to 10/31/00
South African Journal of Philosophy 01/01/96 to present
South African Journal of Sociology 01/01/95 to 11/30/96
Southern African Linguistics & Applied Language Studies 11/01/00 to present
Texas Forum on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 12/01/98 to present
TransAfrica Forum 01/01/90 to 05/13/96
Urban Forum 01/01/01 to present
Urban Studies 08/01/93 to present
Western Journal of Black Studies 06/01/96 to presentWilson Select Plus. Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full text in periodicals from General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, Wilson Business Abstracts and many other databases produced by H.W. Wilson, 1994+.
Harper's Weekly was a leading American source for news and opinion during the middle years of the 19th century. Search the full-text by keywords or browse digitized images of all pages of any issue for the period 1857-1877. Note that there is also a digitized version of Harper's Weekly, 1850-1899, included in the Making of America collection (free).
American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900. Project will include digitized images of pages from 1,100 American periodicals, including 89 journals published between 1740 and 1800; more than 900 titles from 1800 to 1860; and 118 periodicals published during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, and titles beginning publication from the 1880's through 1900. As of this writing, project includes full-text content from 750 periodicals. All numbers of titles included in the project will be digitized, even those which extend well past 1900. For details of current coverage, click here, and click on "List all periodicals." Full text is searchable, with highaccuracy for 19th century materials, less accuracy for 18th century materials.
Making of America (free Cornell site). Includes digitized page images and searchable full text of 955 volumes for American serials from Antebellum times to the end of the 19th century:
The American Missionary (1878 - 1901)
The American Whig Review (1845 - 1852)
The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901)
The Bay State Monthly (1884 - 1886)
The Century (1881 - 1899)
The Continental Monthly (1862 - 1864)
The Galaxy (1866 - 1878)
Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899)
The International Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1852)
The Living Age (1844 - 1900)
Manufacturer and Builder (1869 - 1894)
The New England Magazine (1886 - 1900)
The New-England Magazine (1831 - 1835)
New Englander (1843 - 1892)
The North American Review (1815 - 1900)
The Old Guard (1863 - 1867)
Punchinello (1870)
Putnam's Monthly (1853 - 1870)
Scientific American (1846 - 1869)
Scribner's Magazine (1887 - 1896)
Scribner's Monthly (1870 - 1881)
The United States Democratic Review (1837 - 1859)Making of America (free University of Michigan site). Includes digitized page images and searchable full text of 2,457 journal issues for American serials from Antebellum times to the end of the 19th century:
Appleton's (1869-1881; 2 series)
Catholic World (1865-1901)
DeBow's (1846-1869, and 1952 index; 3 series)
Garden and Forest (1888-1897) (from Library of Congress)
Ladies Repository (1841-1876; 3 series)
The Old Guard (1864)
Overland Monthly (1868-1900; 2 series)
Princeton Review (1831-1882; 3 series)
Southern Literary Messenger (1835-1864, and 1936 Contributor index)
Southern Quarterly Review (1842-1857; 3 series)
Vanity Fair (1860-1862)
Eighteenth Century Journals. Full text of more than 60 British and Irish journals and newspapers dating from 1683 to 1799, not duplicating any material in Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, or Early English Newspapers.
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Indexes--General periodicals, etc.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile. Indexes a wide range of U.S. and British periodical literature, 1802-1906, based upon Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1907; Stead's Index to Periodicals, 1890-1902, Richardson's ...Index... to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899; Jones and Chipman's Index to Periodical Legal Literature, 1786-1922, and certain early runs of newspapers (see below). Site also includes a single-volume index to U. S. government documents, 1774-1881, and indexing for British parliamentary proceedings, 1803-1830.
Web of Science, from Web of Knowledge site. Provides access to the ISI citation databases Arts and Humanities Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. One may identify related works by identifying works in which a known work has been cited. By use of the keyword index a subject search may be undertaken. Coverage from 1956. -
Union catalogs and library catalogs
WorldCat. About 90 million records of all types of materials cataloged by many libraries worldwide, identifying the location of over one billion copies. Searchable in a variety of ways.
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Library of Congress catalog is a truly fundamental reference source. It provides information on the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress by authors, subjects, titles, series, and other added entries.
New York. Public Library: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History.Dictionary Catalog. 9 v. + 6 v. of supplements. Boston, 1961-74. Photographic reproduction of the cards for the dictionary catalog of the NYPL's archive for materials devoted to African American life and history; international in scope. (Balay)
Z1361.N39N581 RR
Center for Research Libraries. The Center for Reseach Libraries holds, and lends to member libraries, very large stocks of specialized research materials, including backfiles of foreign and domestic newspapers; foreign and US state government documents; scholarly journals; foreign dissertations; archival materials in microform; large microform research collections; and other specialized collections. The Center's Catalog includes records for serials, archival materials, large microform research collections, and for many newspapers. (Records for US National Archives microfilms and some newspapers are not yet included in the catalog, and state documents and foreign dissertations are generally not cataloged.) The Center's Handbook describes specialized research materials in various fields, including the following: African Studies; Censuses; Government Publications - U.S.; Labor; Law; Newspapers; State Publications; United States -History; and Urban Studies. -
Archives, manuscripts, and special collections
ArchivesUSA. Comprises a current directory of over 5,400 repositories and over 124,400 collections of primary source material across the United States. It includes the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), comprising information gathered and indexed by the Library of Congress, covering more than 88,700 collections; and names and detailed subject indexing for over 52,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in the microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).
ArchiveGrid. ArchiveGrid includes over one million collection records and tens of thousands of collection guides. Users may search entire file for names, keywords, subjects, etc., and also view detailed digitized finding guides, including scores of finding guides for University of Chicago manuscript collections.
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). The NUCMC includes information on manuscript collections gathered and indexed by the Library of Congress, and provided with names and detailed subject indexing. From this site you may search the NUCMC via either OCLC or RLG through LC gateways that automatically limit your searches to archives and manuscripts. It is recommended that you search both databases, in that you are very likely to get different result sets. You may prefer to search these two large databases directly (WorldCat or RLG). [Choose "Advanced Search," and limit type to "Archival materials."]
University of Chicago Library Special Collections Research Center. The Library's Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) holds extensive resources in African American Studies. To access these, search the print finding aids in SCRC or existing online finding aids, such as African American Studies: Selected Modern Manuscript and Archival Collections and Lincoln, Douglas, and the Civil War. Note that not all print findings aids are yet online. To search for rare books, use the "Advanced Search" feature of the Library Catalog and limit your search to "Special Collections" under "Limits."The University of Chicago Library Jazz Archive. Originally intended to collect and preserve materials from the late 1910s through the 1920s, documenting the birth of "Chicago style" jazz, the collections of the Chicago Jazz archive have expanded to include all jazz styles from oldest to newest, from the 1920s to present. The archive includes online guides to topics such as Chicago Jazz and the Great Migration.
Center for Research Libraries. The Center for Reseach Libraries holds, and lends to member libraries, very large stocks of specialized research materials, including backfiles of foreign and domestic newspapers; foreign and US state government documents; scholarly journals; foreign dissertations; archival materials in microform; large microform research collections; and other specialized collections. The Center's Catalog includes records for serials, archival materials, large microform research collections, and for many newspapers. (Records for US National Archives microfilms and some newspapers are not yet included in the catalog, and state documents and foreign dissertations are generally not cataloged.) The Center's Handbook describes specialized research materials in various fields, including the following: African Studies; Censuses; Government Publications - U.S.; Labor; Law; Newspapers; State Publications; United States -History; and Urban Studies.
The Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection at the Woodson Branch of Chicago Public Library: The largest African American history and literature collection in the Midwest. The strength of the collection is concentrated in African American history in Illinois. Holdings include: 70,000 books, many of them rare; 500 periodical titles, current and retrospective; 75 microfilm research collections, totaling over 5000 reels, bringing together the most significant primary source materials from other Black Studies research collections across the country. Strong coverage documenting the Chicago Renaissance, 1932-1950; including an online digital collection for Literature, Journalism, The Arts, Music, Social Science, and Institutions.
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Guide to the National Archives of the United States. Brief description of record groups held.
National archives microfilm resources for research: a comprehensive catalog. Most filmed materials are available for loan.
American Memory (Library of Congress). A large and growing collection of digitized manuscript, print, photographic, and mapping materials for United States history.
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Electronic books
- American Memory (Library
of Congress). A large and growing collection of digitized manuscript, print,
photographic, and mapping materials for United States history.
- Early English Books Online.
Provides full text in the form of digital page images of 96,000 titles listed
in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), and
Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), as well as about 750 titles
from the Thomason Tracts collection. (Complete digitization of the collections
is projected by 2010.) Database is searchable by words from titles, authors,
publishers, places of publication, dates of publication, etc. PDF copies of
titles are downloadable as PDF files.
American History and Culture Online: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926. A large (26,000 volumes, 6 million pages) collection of digitized books (and some serials) on "American" history published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Collection includes a very considerable amount of material for Latin America, particularly for the earlier years. Full text is searchable.
The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection of Economic Literature 1450-1850. The Collection is formed from the holdings of the Kress Library at Harvard University and Goldsmiths' Library at the University of London. This remarkably comprehensive collection of almost 12,000,000 pages consists of about 61,000 printed books, about half published before 1801, and half between 1800 and 1850. Also included are 466 pre-1906 serials. Texts are fully digitized and searchable by authors, titles, subject terms, and words appearing in the text. The collection is somewhat misleadingly titled in that "economic literature" must be understood very broadly to comprehend all the following categories:
* Agriculture — fishing, mining, surveying, and landed property
* Colonies — the entire story of the rise of the West, the expansion of Europe, to origins of European Empires and other colonial imperial relations
* Commerce — shipping, piracy, and smuggling
* Corn Laws/Navigation Acts/Mercantilism — their agricultural, financial, and commercial aspects
* Finance — coinage, numismatics, and titles
* General — treatises on sociology and political science as well as economics, topography, and the theoretical and general aspects of emigration
* Miscellaneous — national defense, local government, subjects not relevant to the social sciences (e.g., theology), and the unclassifiable
* Politics — political theory
* Population — observations on the state of population in a variety of countries
* Slavery — contains more than 1,100 titles on slavery and moves toward its abolition in the western democracies
* Social Conditions — public order, public utilities, debtor and creditor, penology, criminology, trade unions, and temperance
* Socialism — theoretical works on the subject
* Trades and Manufactures — practical manuals and technology in general
* Transport — transport technology
When doing keyword searches, bear in mind that languages represented in the collection include Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.Eighteenth Century Collections Online. When complete, will provide full text for 150,000 printed works (33 million pages), including virtually every significant work published in the Great Britain and Ireland in the 18th century, plus thousands of works published in the 18th century in the Americas. Each work will be fully word-searchable.
HeritageQuest. Includes searchable full text of 25,000 US local and family histories, and searchable images of US census enumerators' schedules. Also includes Periodicals Source Index (Persi), an extensive index of periodical articles in the fields of family and local history.
Early American Imprints, 1639-1800 (Evans Digital Edition). Project will digitize essentially every known monograph published in what is now the United States from 1639 through 1800. Includes books, pamphlets, broadsheets, etc., though neither serials nor newspapers. (For digitized early American serials, see American Periodical Series Online. In addition, the library has extensive holdings of early American newspapers in microform.) At this writing, project has completed titles through 1769, about one-third of the 36,000 works the entire project will include, with images of each page. The full text of digitized titles is also searchable, though the accuracy of searchable files of early imprints with difficult typefaces is rather lower than for later texts: Please take note of the "search hints" on the main search page.
Early American Imprints, 1801-1819 (Shaw-Shoemaker). Continuation of the preceding resource.
- History E-Book Project.
Project offers electronic texts selected from the current output of American
university presses, as well as those from a specially selected backlist of titles.
The initial release of 500 titles in 2002 is to be enhanced by approximately
250 additional titles each year, and some works originating as electronic books.
Available titles may be browsed by author, title, specific subject headings,
or general category (e. g., European history, 1400-1800); and the texts may
be searched by words or phrases. At present, downloads and copying are limited
to one page at a time: To save a page as an "image," using Internet
Explorer, you may using floating tool-bar to copy, email, or print the page
image; or right-click on a page and click on "copy," and paste into
an editor like "Paint" or "Word." Using Netscape, right-click
on a page, and then click on "save image." The result will be a scrollable
gif. Or right-click on the page, and select "copy," and then paste
into an editor or email application.
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Making of America (University of Michigan). A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection, whose texts are searchable, currently contains approximately 8,500 books with 19th century imprints (as well as extensive runs of 19th century journals -- see list of titles above.)
Making of America (Cornell University). In addition to its extensive collection of 19th century journals (see list of titles above), Cornell's contributions to the MOA include an additional 267 monographs with 19th century imprints.
Google Book Search (as of this writing in Beta). Searches contents of a very large and growing but entirely undefined collection of digitized books. For books out of copyright, and certain other texts, searchable full text is available. One may restrict one's search just to these "full view" texts, or also search texts of other books, only snippets of which will be presented online.
Microsoft's Live Search -- Books (as of this writing in Beta). Searches contents of a very large and growing but entirely undefined collection of digitized books. Provides searchable full text of many older books and other titles not in copyright. [Beta seems to require use of Internet Explorer. In Beta version, put your query in query box. Thereafter, click on "Books" tab to restrict your search to contents of books.]
Project Gutenberg. An archive of thousands of out of copyright texts transcribed into plain ASCII format, including hundreds of historical works. Includes numbers of texts of 19th century English-language historiography, and earlier classic texts. Searchable by author, title, subject, and LC class.
The Online Books Page (Pennsylvania). An online guide to more than 16,000 electronic books available on the web.
Oxford Text Archive. Collects, catalogs, and preserves high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. Includes 2500 resources in 25 languages, most of literary interest.
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Full-text collections
African American Poetry, 1760-1900. The bibliographic source for the Database of African-American Poetry is Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975 by W. P. French et al. The database contains 86 works; these are, for the most part, digitized versions of first editions, but later editions were selected if they were more inclusive. Where poems appeared in their original dialect in an earlier edition and standardised in a later edition, both forms have been included. Poems originally published in periodicals have also been included. Textual apparatus and front matter to the poems are generally ommitted, except the poet's own notes, which are included in the database. Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only) )
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (NYPL Digital Schomburg): A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920.
Black Women Writers. Will contain approximately 100,000 pages of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean. It will also present essays by scholars and feminists about the history of feminism and genre studies in these regions.Twentieth-Century African American Poetry. Provides access to the complete text of 171 works by 20th Century African American poets, such as Amiri Baraka, Rita Dove, Langston Hughes, Nathaniel Mackey, Yusef Komunyakaa, and more. Each poem has been included with integral textual images and illustrations. Accompanying text forming an integral part of the poetry, such as dedications, notes, acknowledgements, prefaces, introductions, and epigraphs, is generally included. The database aims to include as full a collection of the published works of each poet as possible. Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only)
Black Drama - 1850 to Present. Provides full text access to over 900 plays by 171 African American playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, asnd more. From Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
Black Short Fiction. Short stories and folktales by African, African American, and Caribbean authors. When complete this collection should have approximately 8,000 works of short fiction. From Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
Black Thought and Culture. Over 400 sources by African American authors, including monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. From Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
Documenting the American South. A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. The 1,165 books and manuscripts come primarily from its Southern holdings of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries. Provides full text access to 150,000 pages of diaries and letters written by 1,325 women, spanning more than 300 years. The full text can be searched by words and phrases, as well as by characteristics of the authors, such as age, marital status, number of children, residence, etc. From Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)Civil War Letters and Diaries. Provides full text access to more than 100,000 pages of primary materials, searchable by words and phrases, as well as by places, battles, dates, form of material, etc. From Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
Illinois during the Civil War (1861-1865) (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project)
Illinois during the Gilded Age (1866-1896) (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project)
Lincoln/Net (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project)
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection is drawn from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. Among the sources included are books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides, letters, journals, legal documents, ledgers and other financial records, maps, physical artifacts, and pictorial images.
Early Encounters in North America currently includes some 40,000 pages of accounts describing exploration of North America or interaction between various cultural groups, limited to events taking place between 1534 and 1860. Texts may range from chapters or smaller sections of books to the entire corpus of the Jesuit Relations, of which 49 volumes are currently available in full text. The texts can be searched in a variety of ways, with special indexes for features such as date, peoples, flora and fauna, etc. From Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)The University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: African American Studies.
For other electronic collections of texts and documents, readers may search the web using a typical search engine, or consult the Web portals, such as the Voice of the Shuttle.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries
The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, 6th ed., edited by Peter N. Stearns. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Fully searchable comprehensive chronology of more than 20,000 entries that span the millenia from prehistoric times to the year 2000; includes maps, genealogical tables, etc. "A completely revised and updated edition of the classic reference work originally compiled and edited by William L. Langer."
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Includes the complete text of the Encyclopaedia Britannica as well as links to related Internet sites. (UofC only)
Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes (New York: Putnam, 1907-21; Bartelby.com). Contains over 303 chapters, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.
A Dictionary of World History (Oxford University Press: Oxford Reference Online). Over 4,700 entries. This up-to-date dictionary contains clear, concise, and detailed entries covering 4,000 years of world history. It includes biographical entries on hundreds of key figures, from Alexander the Great to Bill Clinton, Elizabeth I to Nelson Mandela, Moses to Tony Blair. There are subject entries on religious and political movements, international organizations, and key battles and places. One may search by keywords, or browse entries alphabetically. First published 2000.A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World History (Oxford University Press: Oxford Reference Online). Edited by Jan Palmowski. Includes 2,500 entries. Provides in-depth coverage of the major historical figures and events of the twentieth century, offering both fact and historical analysis. One may search by keywords, or browse entries alphabetically. Print edition publication date: 1998.
A Dictionary of Contemporary History - 1945 to the Present. Edited by Duncan Townson. A concise guide of 500 entries to the ideas, events, people and movements that have shaped the world from the end of the Second World War to the present. One may search by keywords, or browse entries alphabetically. Publishing history: Blackwell, 1999.
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Newspapers, news reports
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Provides full text of New York Times starting with v. 1, no. 1, 1851; Washington Post, 1871-1987; Wall Street Journal, 1889-1985; Chicago Tribune, 1849-1984; Chicago Defender, from 1905 to 1975; Los Angeles Times, from 1881 to 1986; and the Boston Globe, from 1872 to 1924. Click on "clear all databases"; scroll down to "Historical Newspapers" and checkmark the ones you want to search.
Ethnic NewsWatch. Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority and native press in the U.S. Coverage is from 1960 to date. A significant number of newspapers with African-American audiences are included.
Chicago Defender Full Text on ProQuest. Provides full text of the Chicago Defender, from 1905 to 1975. Images of each article and each page are available; text is word-searchable.
New York Times Full Text on ProQuest. Provides full text of the New York Times starting with v. 1, no. 1, 1851. Images of each article, and each page are available; text is word-searchable.
Washington Post Full Text on ProQuest. Provides full text of the Washington Post, from v. 1., no. 1, 1871 to 1987. Images of each article and each page are available; text is word-searchable.Chicago Tribune Full Text on ProQuest. When complete, will provide full text of the Chicago Tribune, from v. 1., no. 1, 1849 to 1984. Images of each article and each page are available; text is word-searchable. For full-text articles since 1985, click here.
Los Angeles Times Full Text on ProQuest. Provides full text of the Los Angeles Times, from 1881 to 1986. Images of each article and each page are available; text is word-searchable.
Boston Globe Full Text on ProQuest. Provides full text of the Boston Globe, from v. 1., no. 1, March 4, 1872 to 1924. Images of each article and each page are available; text is word-searchable.Wall Street Journal Full Text on ProQuest. Provides full text of the Wall Street Journal starting with v. 1, no. 1, 1889 to 1985. Images of each article, and each page are available; text is word-searchable.
America's Historical Newspapers. Provides full text of issues from hundreds of American newspapers published between 1699 and 1922, with near exhaustive coverage for newspapers that began publication before 1820. Also includes long runs for such newspapers as Baltimore Sun, 1817-1922; Philadelphia Inquirer, 1860-1922; and the San Francisco Bulletin, 1855-1891. Provides page images and images of individual articles. Texts are word searchable.
Nineteenth Century U. S. Newspapers. Digitized articles and pages from approximately 250 American newspapers. Most titles are represented by comparatively short runs or only a few issues, but some titles are more extensive, including the [Chicago] Inter Ocean, 1874-1896; California Daily Bulletin, 1855-1893; [Denver] Rocky Mountain News, 1873-1898; Indiana State Journal, 1825-1899; [New Orleans] Picayune, 1861-1899; Boston Daily Advertiser, 1855-1899; New York Herald, 1830-1863; Cleveland Daily Herald, 1835-1884; [Philadelphia] North American, 1801-1899; Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, 1844-1899; United States Telegraph [Washington], 1818-1839; Washington Globe, 1822-1868; and many others.
Times (of London) Digital Archive, 1785-1985. Provides full text of the Times of London. Images of each article and each page are available; text is word-searchable.
Eighteenth Century Journals II. Full text of more than 60 British and Irish journals and newspapers dating from 1683 to 1799, not duplicating any material in Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, or Early English Newspapers.
Austrian Newspapers Online: Historische österreichische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften Online. Digital images of newspapers from the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria provided by the Austrian National Library. As of this writing, coverage includes selected titles for 1780-81; 1808-1938; and 1985.
Spanish Newspapers Online: Hemeroteca Digital of the National Library of Spain. Includes fully-searchable digital images of some 143 newspaper titles, and over 500,000 digitized pages, a wide variety of Spanish press of all types: political, satirical, technical, literary, sports, religious, etc., ranging from 1772 to 1933. Also includes this link to other Spanish digitized newspaper collections.
Historical Newspapers Online Indexes the Times (London) from 1790 to 1980) and the New York Times, 1851-1922.Keesing's Record of World Events. Provides full text international news reports since 1960. A particularly useful source for 'foreign' political and economic reports.
Lexis-Nexis Academic. Contains full-text articles from many newspapers, including the New York Times, from about 1980 onward. One may restrict searching to specific foreign-language newspapers.
ProQuest Newstand. Full text articles from some 500 U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, Chicago Tribune (1985+), plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Coverage varies from title to title with respect to years covered and comprehensiveness. For particulars, click here.
Ebsco Newspaper Source. Provides full-text articles from recent years from about 200 international and regional newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune.
Factiva, merging content from Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters. Strong business focus. Search full text content from over 6,000 newswires, papers, magazines, & trade journals.
Facts on File. Includes a "World News Digest," 1940 to present, and World Almanac Reference Database, and World Almanac Encyclopedia.
U. S. Newspapers held by the University of Chicago Library. Detailed holdings of all U. S. newspapers held by the University of Chicago in any format, as of April, 1999. Searchable by title, place of publication, date, and readership.
The Center for Research Libraries possesses, and lends to member libraries, a very large stock of newspaper backfiles, foreign and domestic, black, ethnic, and general circulation. Most, but not all, are listed in the CRL's catalog. For a general description of the CRL's newspaper collections, see its Handbook. -
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses/Dissertation Abstracts. Indexes North American dissertations and some European ones, 1861- to date, as well as many master's theses. Provides full texts of almost all dissertations from 1997, and many earlier ones as well. After 1980 database contains abstracts in addition to bibliographic information. Searchable in various ways. Updated monthly.
Center for Research Libraries. The Center for Reseach Libraries holds, and lends to member libraries, very large stocks of specialized research materials, including in particular foreign dissertations. The collections are described in the Center's Handbook section on dissertations. Foreign dissertations, however, generally are not included in the Center's Catalog. -
Government publications
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Congressional Universe. Provides indexing for Congressional reports, documents, hearings, prints and other Congressional papers from 1789. After 1970 detailed abstracts of Congressional hearings, reports, documents, and prints are provided. Provides full texts of Congressional committee reports since 1990; of House and Senate Documents since 1995; of selected committee prints since 1995; of bills since 1989; and of the Congressional Record since 1985.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Contains full-text articles from many newspapers, from about 1980 onward.
Government Printing Office GPO Access Service. Search the Monthly Catalog for government documents published since January 1994; and search the Federal Register, 1994+, the Congressional Record, 1994+, Congressional Record Index, 1983+, Congressional Documents and Reports, 1995+, Congressional Directory, 1995+, the Economic Report of the President, GAO Reports, History of Bills, 1983+, Government Manual, 1995+, Supreme Court Decisions, 1937-1975, United States Code, 1994 and supplements, etc. Conduct advanced searches of the Congressional Record and the Federal Register, 1995+. Use the Government Information Locator Service to identify and use other government sources of electronic information.The Library of Congress's Thomas site provides information on current floor action in Congress, bill summaries and status for the current Congress, texts of bills and public laws (1993+), text of Congressional Record (1993+), Committee reports, (1995+), other committee information, and historical documents.
GPO. Index listing Federal documents issued from July, 1976, to the present.
Century of Lawmaking: U. S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 (American Memory Project, Library of Congress). Includes searchable texts of House and Senate Journals, with links to digitized images of Annals of Congress, Register of Debates, and Congressional Globe. Also includes searchable texts of Statutes at Large, 1789-1873, selected volumes of the Congressional Serial Set, the Journals of the Continental Congress and additional sources for the early Congress.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile. Provides index for federal documents issued 1774-1881, and debates of British parliament, 1803-1830.
Government Documents at University of Chicago Library. A brief introduction to government documents at the University of Chicago, with link to page of other links.
The Center for Research Libraries possesses, and lends to member libraries, a large stock of government foreign and domestic government documents, including a fairly comprehensive collection of US state government documents prior to 1950. For a general description of the CRL's government document collections, see its Handbook, sections on US documents, foreign documents, and documents of US states. The CRL's catalog only lists portions of these collections.
Government Resources on the Web, from University of Michigan. An extensive guide to sites for federal, state, and foreign government information; also international agency sites. Includes links to sites providing access to texts of Congressional Record, Federal Register, GAO reports, Congressional bills, government publications, etc., directories of agencies and web sites in all branches of government. Includes links to sites maintained by foreign governments.
Guide to Nineteenth Century British Parliamentary Papers on the Slave Trade. A fairly detailed guide to the 95-volume set of selected documents published by the Irish University Press. The volumes containing the underlying documents can be borrowed from the Center for Research Libraries.
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Biographical sources
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American National Biography provides scholarly biographies of more than
17,400 men and women from all eras and walks of life. The print version was
published in 24 volumes in 1999, and a special effort was made to include more
women and members of minority groups that had been underrepresented in previous
biographical references. The signed articles are provided with bibliographies.
The full text is searchable by keywords. In effect it substantially supersedes:
The Dictionary of American Biography, a biographical classic, was published in 20 volumes between 1928 and 1934, and 10 supplements have been published between 1944 and 1995, providing scholarly biographies of over 19,000 Americans who died by December 31, 1980. In its electronic form, accessed from workstation in Joseph Regenstein Library first-floor reading room, the text is searchbable by keywords.
Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM, provides authoritative biographical articles on the lives of nearly 40,000 British individuals. Limited to those deceased by 1990. Based upon a multivolume classic printed work, updated by many supplements. In its electronic form, accessed from workstation in Joseph Regenstein Library first-floor reading room, the text is searchbable by keywords.
African American Biographical Database brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. These biographical sketches have been assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources. The majority of the biographies come from titles listed in Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950, and many entries have a distinctly romantic or sentimental quality. Entries may be searched by categories, such as occupation, gender, state of origin, or by keywords appearing in the text.Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press: Oxford Reference Online). Includes 2,000 entries on men and women from different countries and cultures who have contributed to the thought as well as the action of the twentieth century. One may search by keywords, or browse entries alphabetically. First published 1985 as The Longman Dictionary of 20th Century Biography. Revised Edition published 1992 by Oxford University Press as A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World Biography. This abridged and updated edition published as an Oxford University Press paperback 1999.
Contemporary Authors is a bio-bibliographic guide covering more than 110,000 current writers of fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and drama whose works have been issued by commercial or university presses, who write in English are whose works have been translated into English. Emphasis is upon writers active since 1960.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes approximately 14,000,000 biographical sketches appearing in biographical dictionaries, encyclopedias, and similar reference works.
Biographical Archives. Library holds "biographical archives" for most countries and regions of the world. These are microfiche compilations of entries found in biographical reference works published between 1646 and the 1980's, listing in total millions of entries. Many, but not all entries have been digitized and are available in full text through the World Biographical Index System (WBIS); those not yet digitized are indexed within WBIS and available as microfiche on the first floor Reading Room (ask at the Reference Desk).
The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography. Compiled and edited by Jennifer Uglow, Frances Hinton, Revised by Maggy Hendry. Includes more than 2000 entries. One may search by keywords, or browse entries alphabetically. Print edition publication date: 1999.
The Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women. 1600 concise biographies of women in all fields, all periods, all parts of the world. One may search by keywords, or browse entries alphabetically. Print edition publication date: 1998.
Dictionary of Political Biography (Oxford University Press: Oxford Reference Online). Edited by Dennis Kavanagh. Includes more than 1000 entries. Compiled by an expert team of contributors, this dictionary covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century. It describes and assesses the lives of more than 1000 men and women who have shaped political events across the world. Each entry includes an account of the background, career, and achievements of the individual concerned, balancing fact with critical appraisal. One may search by keywords, or browse entries alphabetically. Print edition publication date: 1998.
HeritageQuest. Searchable database of images of US census enumerators' schedules and full text of 25,000 US local and family histories. Also includes an extensive index of periodical articles in the fields of family and local history. Also includes personal identification data about depositors in 29 branch offices of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865-74. -
Statistical Sources
Historical Statistics of the United States. Millennial Edition online. Represents a vast expansion of earlier editions of this work, now with over 37,000 data series, many of them presented by race. Users may download data series, compose their own custom tables drawing from various data series, and save data. Chapters include evaluative introductory essays describing the sources of the data and often assessing their reliability. Text is searchable; there is a topical index. There is a 5-volume print edition held in the first floor Reading Room of JRL. Contents: A. Population: Aa. Population Characteristics; Ab. Vital Statistics; Ac. Internal Migration; Ad. International Migration; Ae. Family and Household Composition; Af. Cohorts; Ag. American Indians. B. Work and Welfare: Ba. Labor; Bb. Slavery; Bc. Education; Bd. Health; Be. Economic Inequality and Poverty; Bf. Social Insurance and Public Assistance; Bg. Nonprofit, Voluntary, and Religious Entities. C. Economic Structure and Performance: Ca. National Income and Product; Cb. Business Fluctuations and Cycles; Cc. Prices; Cd. Consumer Expenditures; Ce. Saving, Capital, and Wealth; Cf. Geography and the Environment; Cg. Science, Technology, and Productivity; Ch. Business Organization; Cj. Financial Markets and Institutions. D. Economic Sectors: Introduction, Industrial Classification; Da. Agriculture; Db. Natural Resource Industries; Dc. Construction, Housing, and Mortgages; Dd. Manufacturing; De. Distribution; Df. Transportation; Dg. Communications; Dh. Services and Utilities. E. Governance and International Relations: Ea. Government Finance and Employment; Eb. Elections and Politics; Ec. Crime, Law Enforcement, and Justice; Ed. National Defense, Wars, Armed Forces, and Veterans; Ee. International Trade and Exchange Rates; Ef. Outlying Areas; Eg. Colonial Statistics; Eh. Confederate States of America.
Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1878--. The basic annual statistical reporter for the United States. Typical chapters: Area and population; vital statistics, health, and nutrition; immigration, emigration, and naturalization; education; law enforcement and federal courts; climate; public lands and National Park System; labor force, employment, and earnings; military service and veterans' affairs; social security and related programs; income and expenditures; prices; elections; federal government finances; state and local government finances and employment; banking and finance; business enterprise; communications; power; public roads and motor vehicles; transportation, air and land; waterways, water traffic, and shipping; irrigation, drainage, and soil conservation; agriculture; forests and forest products; fisheries; mining; construction and housing; manufactures; foreign commerce; distribution and services. For many years subtitled "....and Guide to Sources": the various tables in the abstract cite the full statistical publication from which the data are abstracted. -- The documents linked hereto are pdf's, with chapters and topical indexes, but the individual volumes are not electronically searchable.
Statistical Universe. Comprehensive guide to statistics published in federal government publications from about 1970, with many additional references to statistical reports published by states, intergovernmental organizations, and private organizations. Gives sources of statistics, and data elements in tables. Full tables are available for many statistical reports, often both as digitized images and in downloadable spreadsheet formats. -
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Polling the Nations. A compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. Each of the nearly 350,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given. Also included in each record is the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and universe, i.e., the groups or areas included in the interview.
Gallup Brain. Database of 136,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by the Gallup Poll since 1935. Searchable by keywords and phrases.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Archives thousands of polls and surveys from the United States and some 70 foreign countries undertaken by many polling organizations on a very wide range of topics. Many datasets may be downloaded.
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Historical Maps
Concise Atlas of World History (Andromeda). 119 maps in six chapters, from the ancient world to the 20th century, with commentary.
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 [Illinois]. These fire insurance maps provide extremely detailed information on such building features as size and shape, construction details, roof type, occupancy, street addresses, and often the date of construction. Maps often include updates. Maps are available for many places in Illinois.
American Memory (Library of Congress). Includes several thematic historical map collections, for example, Revolutionary Era, Railroads, Panormaic Maps, National Parks, Civil War, etc., as well as Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870.
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The History of Slavery and the Diaspora
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The African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992. From NYPL's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
America: History and Life. Includes abstracts and indexes for African American history appearing in 2,000 journals published worldwide from 1954. Database also includes citations to abstracts of dissertations published in these areas. Database updated monthly.
A Bibliography of Afro-Cuban Culture. Compiled by Fernando Ortiz (1880-1969) and made available online by NYPL's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
CARINDEX. Indexes the contents of some 70 West Indian journals, published within in the Caribbean region. It also includes theses and papers presented at conferences. CARINDEX covers publications in the social sciences and humanities from 1983 onwards, with priority being given to indexing materials of immediate relevance to the teaching and research at the three campuses of the University of the West Indies.
Caribbean Abstracts. Contains abstracts in English of selected books and articles in the humanities and social sciences published since 1989. The publications are selected for their importance or the topicality of the subject.
ClasePeriodica. Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Produced by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities (1975 to present). PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. This database combining CLASE and PERIODICA indexes over 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages and contains more than 300,000 bibliographic citations. Includes information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
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Documenting the American South. Documenting the American South is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Contains over 1,264 books and manuscripts.
Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora. This site, brought to you by York University in Canada, focuses on the history of the African diaspora and the movement of Africans to various parts of the world, particularly the Americas and the Islamic lands of North Africa and the Middle East.
Handbook of Latin American Studies. 1935--. Annual. Extensive, annotated bibliography including citations for slave trade and diaspora communities in Latin America.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI). Includes citations for articles on slave trade and diaspora communities in Latin America published since 1970.
Historical Abstracts. Contains citations for articles and reviews on the history of slavery and the Diaspora communities appearing in 2,000 journals published worldwide, from 1954, covering world history since 1450 (except United States and Canada).
Images of African Americans from the 19th Century. From NYPL's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Oxford University Humanities Hub "Humbul Topic on Slavery." Provides access to a large number of Internet resources on Slavery, selected for their authority and described by Humbul.
Royal Historical Society Bibliography: the History of Britain, Ireland, and the British Overseas. Includes citations dealing with writings on slave trade, slavery, and the diasporan communities in the British empire, appearing since 1901.
UNESCO "Slave Route" Project: The "Slave Route", is an Intercultural project administered, co-ordinated and monitored by the UNESCO Department of Intercultural Dialogue and Pluralism for a Culture of Peace. Launched by UNESCO in 1994, the Slave Route Project aims to study and understand the profound causes and modalities of the slave trade and to underline the interactions generated by it, in the Americas, West Indies and the Indian Ocean.
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Selected internet resources for African American Studies
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American Memory (Library of Congress): The American Memory project at the Library of Congress has large collections relevant to African American Studies, among which the titles listed below. Use the Collection Finder for a comprehensive search by keyword.
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
- The African American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
- African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University
- African American Odyssey
- The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
- William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
- The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
- First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
The African American MOSAIC: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture.
American Studies, Black History and Literature: By Andrew Graham, Keele; contains resources and links on African American culture.
The Black Collegian Online: Published since 1970, the Black Collegian provides free access to the magazine and a number of useful resources for college and graduate students, such as articles on graduate schools, career outlooks and reports, and job search strategies. Along with browsing the Black Collegian archives (dating back to 1997), visitors may also elect to view articles organized by theme, such as global study programs, African-American issues, and extra- curriculars.
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Brown v. Board of Education: 50th Anniversary Bibliography: Sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Provides an extensive bibliographic guide to the landmark ruling; includes links to web resources.
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Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
Chicago Renaissance: 1932-1950. Images and Documents from the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection at the Woodson Branch of Chicago Public Library; with links to information on Literature, Journalism, The Arts, Music, Social Science, and Institutions.
Destination Freedom: Black Radio Days.
Digital Schomburg and Online Exhibits of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Includes exhibit on "Harlem 1900-1940: An African American Community" and other digital exhibits, image collections, full text databases (such as African American Women Writers of the 19th Century), and other important links.
Documenting the American South. Documenting the American South is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Contains over 1,264 books and manuscripts.
DuSable Museum of African American History. Located just off campus, the DuSable is the oldest independent institution dedicated to the collection, preservation, interpretation and dissemination of the history and culture of Americans of African descent. The museum's emphasis is on the experiences of Africans in America and throughout the Diaspora and their contributions to American and world history and culture.
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eCUIP Web Guide to African American Studies: Produced by the Digital Library Project of the Chicago Public Schools and the University of Chicago Internet Project at the University of Chicago Library, this guide provides access to local and national resources and a large number of links to resources in the following categories: General; Reference; Arts; History; Literature; People; and Places.
The Encyclopædia Britannica Guide to Black History. Britannica examines five centuries of black American heritage, from early slave revolts through the Civil Rights Movement. Learn about the triumphs of African American history through a detailed timeline, or pinpoint famous people and events through an exhaustive list of articles A to Z. There are also sound and video recordings of such figures as Billie Holiday, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, and Jesse Owens.
Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature. Includes information on the Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Writers Conference, the Gwendolyn Brooks Center and Poetry Award, and links to other Chicago resources.
Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora. This site, brought to you by York University in Canada, focuses on the history of the African diaspora and the movement of Africans to various parts of the world, particularly the Americas and the Islamic lands of North Africa and the Middle East.
Javanoir: A Selected Guide to African American Resources on the Internet.
The University of Michigan Library's Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive. Contains documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present. The archive is divided into four main areas of interest: Supreme Court cases; busing and school integration efforts in northern urban areas; school integration in the Ann Arbor Public School District; and recent resegregation trends in American schools.
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U.S. Department of State: Key Sites on African American History and Culture.
Virtual Exhibit of 18th and 19th Century African American Literature. The project spotlights some of the early African-American writers whose work is collected in the University of North Carolina libraries. Many of the materials featured in this web site are taken from the Documenting the American South Collection (see above).
Voice of the Shuttle: Search the Voice of the Shuttle pages by "African American". The search will yield numerous results ranging from Literature to History to the Sciences.
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: History -- A very broad and comprehensive guide to history resources on the internet, including many hundreds of links to sites for electronic texts, manuscripts, images, bibliographies, guides to archives and museums, indexes, information on organizations in the field of history, discussion groups and electronic journals, etc. Resources are organized by topic alphabetically, by era, and by region -- see guide to African American History.
University of Chicago Department of English Language and Literature home page.
University of Chicago History Department home page.
University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race Politics & Culture home page
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Guides to microform sources
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Conaway, Frank. Guide to microform sources for history and political science in the University of Chicago Library. Chicago, 2001. Includes over 800 annotated citations for source materials in microform, including materials from national and other archives, collections of personal papers and other manuscript collections, and collections of books, pamphlets, serials, newspapers, and official documents. Includes chapters on sources for United States, Latin America, Great Britain, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Australia and Oceania; and chapters on sources for women's studies and African American studies, and Judaica. Includes index of subjects, authors, and titles.
Center for Research Libraries. The Center for Reseach Libraries holds, and lends to member libraries, very large stocks of specialized research materials, including backfiles of foreign and domestic newspapers; foreign and US state government documents; scholarly journals; foreign dissertations; archival materials in microform; large microform research collections; and other specialized collections. The Center's Catalog includes records for serials, archival materials, large microform research collections, and for many newspapers. (Records for US National Archives microfilms and some newspapers are not yet included in the catalog, and state documents and foreign dissertations are generally not cataloged.) The Center's Handbook describes specialized research materials in various fields, including the following: African Studies; Black Studies; Censuses; Government Publications - U.S.; Labor; Law; Newspapers; State Publications; United States -History; and Urban Studies.