Black History Month Guide

Multi-subject database indexing more than 11,000 peer-reviewed articless, many with full-text article access. Includes podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN, videos from BBC Worldwide Learning, and articles from The New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Economist.

Contains journal, magazine and newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.

Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, Brooklyn, and towns and cities in North Carolina, this collection presents multiple aspects of the African American community through personal diaries and scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records and in-depth oral histories. It reveals the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.

Contains over 1,000 printed documents, including books, pamphlets, sheet music, speeches, and other artifacts from the Afro-Americana collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia, covering the post-Reconstruction period.

Contains almost 1,400 printed documents, including books, pamphlets, sheet music, speeches, and other artifacts from the Afro-Americana collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia, covering the post-Civil War period.

Features selected primary documents related to critical people and events in African American history. The website highlights documents from the following time periods: 1. Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860); 2. The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877); 3. Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932); 4. The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945); 5. The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975); 6. The Contemporary Era (1976-2000).

Caribbean History & Culture: 1535-1920 contains over 1,200 books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera, from and about the islands of the Caribbean Sea (aka the West Indies), and nearby islands. Also includes rare works on the neighboring areas, Florida, Mexico, and Brazil.

Archive of official publications and primary source material related to civil rights in the United States covering a wide range of topics for research in American history, political science, social justice and related fields.

Provides content that explores cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. Includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals.

Global Issues in Context integrates news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more.

Bringing together primary source documents from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world, this resource allows students and researchers to explore and compare unique material relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice. In addition to the primary source documents there is a wealth of useful secondary sources for research and teaching; including an interactive map, scholarly essays, tutorials, a visual sources gallery, chronology and bibliography. Register for My Archive and save your favourite documents, search results and images to your personal collection area.

Contains resources on the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Includes videos, articles, primary sources, and archives.

World Scholar covers topics such as politics, economics, religion, culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and technology.