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 Research Databases in African-American Studies

Key databases include:

African American Experience [Info] Full Text Resource!

African American newspapers, 1827-1998 [Info] Full Text Resource!

African American periodicals [Info] Full Text Resource!

Black Studies Center [Info] Full Text Resource!

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text [Info] Full Text Resource!

Oxford African American Studies Center (Includes the African American National Biography) [Info] Full Text Resource!

The librarian for African-American Studies is Deborah Lilton (Central Library, Phone: 343-4237).


A complete list of all databases in African-American Studies organized by type follows:

Articles (journals and newspapers)

Accessible Archives [Info] Full Text Resource!

African American newspapers, 1827-1998 [Info] Full Text Resource!

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century [Info] Full Text Resource!

Black Literature 1827-1940 [Info]

Black Studies Center [Info] Full Text Resource!

eHRAF Archaeology (Replaces eHRAF Collection of Archaeology) [Info] Full Text Resource!

eHRAF World Cultures (Replaces eHRAF Collection of Ethnography) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Ethnic Newswatch includes full text; Web version [Info] Full Text Resource!

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text [Info] Full Text Resource!

Audio and Video

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography Slave Narratives [Info] Full Text Resource!

Black Studies Center [Info] Full Text Resource!

Biographical information

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography Slave Narratives [Info] Full Text Resource!

Black Studies Center [Info] Full Text Resource!

Data/Datasets

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Electronic books, documents, and other texts

African American Experience [Info] Full Text Resource!

African American Music Reference [Info] Full Text Resource!

African American newspapers, 1827-1998 [Info] Full Text Resource!

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century [Info] Full Text Resource!

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography Slave Narratives [Info] Full Text Resource!

Black Studies Center [Info] Full Text Resource!

eHRAF Archaeology (Replaces eHRAF Collection of Archaeology) [Info] Full Text Resource!

eHRAF World Cultures (Replaces eHRAF Collection of Ethnography) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Oxford African American Studies Center (Includes the African American National Biography) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007 [Info]

Maps

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

News resources

African American newspapers, 1827-1998 [Info] Full Text Resource!

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century [Info] Full Text Resource!

Ethnic Newswatch includes full text; Web version [Info] Full Text Resource!

Statistics

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Websites

African-American Studies sites recommended by Vanderbilt librarians [Info] (Free database--open to all users)



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