African and African American Studies Resources

Books and Media

Earlham Libraries Catalog
Catalog of books and other materials available in the Earlham Libraries, with the option to search catalogs in the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI).

WorldCat
The world's largest library catalog, covering books and other materials available in OCLC member libraries around the globe.

Articles

Sociological Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts the international literature of sociology, 1963 to present.

Social Sciences Citation Index (via Web of Science)
Keyword and citation indexing of social-sciences journals, as well as individually selected, relevant items from the world's leading scientific and technical journals, 1981 to present. Web of Science also includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index.

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
Review articles on scholarly books and articles dealing with critical and cultural theory published in a given year.

Academic Search Premier
Comprehensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including full text. Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.

JSTOR
Full text of over hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s.

Periodicals Archive Online
Full text of 425 journals and magazines covering all topics dating back to the 1800s. Coverage ends at 1995.

Reference

Oxford African American Studies Center
Over 7500 articles from a variety of Oxford University press books (e.g. Africana, African American National Biography), over 200 primary source documents, maps, timelines, links, and more.

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
Online version of the six-volume, 2nd edition reference set from Macmillan (2006). An introduction to topics in African-American culture and history.

New Encyclopedia of Africa
Online version of the five-volume, 2nd edition set from Charles Scribner's (2008).

Annual Reviews
Full text of annual summaries of scholarship in over three dozen academic disciplines.

Encyclopedia of Sociology
Online version of the five volume, 2nd edition (2000) of Macmillan's standard encyclopedia. It provides a scholarly introduction to the field.

Web Sites

African Studies: General

An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet
Links to a variety of Africa-related resources. Maintained by Dr. Peter Limb at the University of Western Australia.

AfricaBib.org
Includes the Africa Women's Bibliographic Database -- more than 21,000 citations from 1986 to present -- and the Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database, listing more than 28,000 citations drawn from 250 journals, 19th century to date. Maintained at the University of Arkansas -- Little Rock.

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
A collection of multimedia materials on African history and cultures, with more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and over 50 hours of audio recordings. Maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

African Studies Quarterly
Analysis of current events in Africa.

African Studies WWW
The African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania links to a variety of general African Studies sources.

Country-Specific Pages
Links to the University of Pennsylvania's informational pages on many of the countries in Africa.

The Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide
Maintained by Joseph Roberts of the University of Utah, the site offers an index to resources covering the Middle East and North Africa.

Kenya

Kenyaweb
Headline news, links to government and business sites, a virtual tour of Nairobi, and much more.

South Africa

Daily Mail & Guardian
Online version of the daily newspaper.

African-American Studies

The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
Selected texts and images from the Ohio State Historical Society. These include manuscripts, pamphlets, photos, newspapers, and other periodicals. Maintained by the Library of Congress.

The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
A guide to the institution's African-American collections. It covers the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere including Colonization, Abolition, and Migrations.

African American Odyssey
Collection of narratives, songs, government documents, and maps that illustrate over 200 years of African American achievement and struggle.

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Prepared by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture the collection contains essays, poetry, fiction, and autobiographical narratives.

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
A sample of the 2,300 interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) writers. The complete transcripts are available in The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, edited by George P. Rawick. Lilly Library has the volumes. Call number: E441 .A58.

Archives of African American Music and Culture
Designed and maintained by Laura Crain, archivist, at Indiana University.

"Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives
A selection of 17 interviews of former slaves conducted by members of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Also features an introductory essay, three lesson plans, and a modest annotated guide to related online resources.

Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Official site of The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, an interdiciplinary academic program designed "to investigate, document, interpret, and teach about the American South".

Death or Liberty: Gabriel, Nat Turner, and John Brown
Transcripts and digital images of over 60 documents concerning acts of resistance to slavery in Virginia between the American Revolution and the Civil War. These include Gabriel's Conspiracy, Nat Turner's Rebellion, and John Brown's Raid. A project of the Library of Virginia.

Documenting the American South
Among many other things, a collection of 19th literature and slave narratives maintained by the University of North Carolina.

The Frederick B. Douglass Papers
The first release of the Douglass Papers, from the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division, contains approximately 2,000 items (16,000 images) relating to Douglass's life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. The papers span the years 1841 to 1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862 to 1895.

Furman University, Secession Era Editorials Project
Offers full-text search capability to speeches and newspaper accounts in the period leading up to and through the Civil War.

The Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs
Photos taken between 1915 and 1930 presenting African-American education at "colored schools" in the Southern US and also including views of Africa. Maintained by the Special Collections Department at the University of Virginia.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
Located at Stanford University, this site will likely become the definitive collection of the civil rights leader's writings. Includes full-text primary documents (e.g., the "I Have a Dream" speech and the "I've Been To The Mountaintop" sermon), a general biography, a chronology of King's life, a recommended reading section, and scholarly articles produced by Project staff members. Free registration is required.

Plowshares Digital Archive for Peace Studies
Primary documents covering the social justice efforts of Earlham College, Goshen College, and Manchester College, as well as their affiliated historic peace churches (Quakers, Mennonites, and the Church of the Brethren) from the 1700s to the present. Includes diaries, minutes, correspondence, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Includes photographs and texts on African-American history. Examples: African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century; Images of African Americans from the 19th Century; Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community; and The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century.

Underground Railroad: Special Resource Study
This National Park Service site contains information from a 1990 study of the Underground Railroad, including "a general overview of the Underground Railroad, with a brief discussion of slavery and abolitionism, escape routes used by slaves, and alternatives for commemoration and interpretation of the significance of the phenomenon."

The Valley of the Shadow
Offers primary sources from the period just before the Civil War. It includes transcripts of original slave narratives, links to maps, church records, military records, letters, diaries, newspapers, public records, and church records gathered from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and Augusta County, Virginia.

Virginia Runaways Project
A database of runaway and captured slave advertisements that features the full transcripts and images of runaway and captured slave ads placed in Virginia newspapers from 1736 to 1790. Maintained by Thomas Costa of the History Department at the University of Virginia's College at Wise.