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African & African American Studies: Research Databases

Begin your research with the best resources recommended by the subject liaison for African & African American Studies. The guide features journal indexes, reference works, primary source collections, and film documentaries.
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Important Web Sites

  • National Archives - African American Research
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NY Public Library)
    An excellent (and extensive) collection of materials on the African diaspora. The Schomburg web site offers online exhibits, manuscript finding aids, and more.
  • DAACS : Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake Slavery

Specialized Databases

  • African American poetry, 1750-1900
    • On Campus or VPN
    Survey of African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  • Archives Unbound
    Suite of digitized archival collections including US Civil Rights (e.g., Papers of Fannie Lou Hamer), and European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century (French, German, Italian & Portuguese)
  • Black drama, 1850 to present This link opens in a new window
    contains the full text of approximately 1,462 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 233 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
  • Civil Rights Digital Library
    Multi-institutional project hosted at the University of Georgia.
    An online archive of both primary & secondary documents drawing from collections nationwide. Includes television news footage, photographs, oral histories, reports, published books/articles, and more.
  • Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
    Searchable collection of the United Kingdom's Colonial, Dominion and Foreign Offices' confidential correspondence relating to Africa between 1834 and 1966.
  • Colonial America This link opens in a new window
    Colonial America, scheduled for completion in 2019, will be released in 5 modules eventually encompassing all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London, plus all extracted documents associated with them. Covering the period 1606 to 1822, this unique collection of largely manuscript material from the archives of the British government is invaluable for students and researchers of all aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history and the early-modern Atlantic world.
  • eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window
    Ethnographic database containing books and articles on cultures from all regions of the world. Organized by cultures and ethnic groups, and every document is subject-indexed at the paragraph level, facilitating precise retrieval within documents.
  • Empire online This link opens in a new window
    ... collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world.
  • Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Yale University).
    "Dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of knowledge concerning all aspects of chattel slavery and its destruction."
  • House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
  • In Motion: the African-American Migration Experience
  • Smithsonian global sound This link opens in a new window
    A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions, this collection provides a variety of online resources, including streaming audio, that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
  • ProQuest History Vault: NAACP PapersBoard of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff files
  • ProQuest History Vault: Southern Life and African American History, 17751915, Plantations Records, Part 1
  • Slavery & Anti-Slavery: a Transnational Archive This link opens in a new window
    Digital compilation of several research archives - includes books, periodicals, manuscripts, court records, and more
  • Voyages: the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
    Information on nearly 35,000 transatlantic voyages, including ship name, captains, number of crew and slaves transported. Includes the African Names Database
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