HIS 334 - History of the African American Experience
Librarian: David Bradshaw , ext. 3059
Books, Videos & CDs:
Search Our Library Catalog
NetLibrary, History E-Book Project and other e-book collections – for over 50,000 electronic books. Most of these can be found through our library catalog.
Other Library Catalogs – to see what's available at UNC-A and other local libraries.
WorldCat – searches the collections of libraries all over the world and indexes books, audiovisuals, & archival and manuscript materials. WorldCat is also the place to go to search for and request books that we do not have here in the WWC library.
Articles & Databases:
Journal Sources:You could try these interdisciplinary, full-text periodical databases which cover almost any subject area. There are over 10,000 full-text journal titles in these three databases:
Academic Search Premier
MasterFILE Premier
Proquest Research Library
Next, try some of these more specialized indexes:
JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive – contains complete backfiles of key journals covering many subject areas including history (over 50 journals in history).
America History & Life – a great index w/ abstracts only (no full text), covering pre-history to the present for the U.S. and Canada.
American Civil War: Letters & Diaries
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
African-American Poetry (1750-1900)
American National Biography
Annals of American History
Arts & Humanities Search
Biography Resource Center
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
Early Encounters in North America
Historic Events of the 20th Century– see section on the Civil Rights Movement.
Humanities Index
North American Women's Letters & Diairies
Oral History Online
In the First Person
Original Sources
Social Sciences Package
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Women Working, 1800-1930
20th Century African-American Poetry
The New York Times – full coverage from 1980 to present.
The New York Times Historical – full coverage back to 1851 (to 2004).
Web Sites:
Take a look at our library's selected list of History web sites. American Memory Project – part of the American Digital Library Project of the Library of Congress, this site is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. Documenting the American South – a great collection of primary documents. Gateway to African American History
Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to Black History Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights Making of America – contains approximately
8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with
19th century imprints. North American Slave Narratives – part of the Documenting the American South collection from UNC-Chapel Hill Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project – from the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress United States Historical Census Data Browser – for census data between 1790 and 1970. American Civil War Home Page American History Document Collection The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition – includes over 200 primary documents from 1692 through the 20th century. North Carolina ECHO – "Exploring Cultural Heritage Online": a gateway to special collections in the state's cultural collecting agencies (libraries, archives, and museums). Also includes links to some digitized collections. Western North Carolina Heritage – a digital repository of core information by and about the people of the mountains of North Carolina. Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina North Carolina State ArchivesHave something to share???
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