History
Article Databases
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowAll journal titles in Project MUSE are peer reviewed, scholarly titles. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA total of more than 900 full-text scholarly journal titles in an online archive beginning with the first issue of each title. The archive includes nine JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collections.
- In JSTOR, there is usually a time lag in full-text content. Use JSTOR in conjunction with our current online databases and print holdings.
- Since results may contain articles that are not peer reviewed, search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journal's peer-reviewed status.
Web Sites
- Avoice Online: African American voices in CongressSee the Exhibits menu option. "The Avoice Web site is designed to capture and preserve the rich history of political and legislative contributions of blacks for future generations." Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
- BlackPast.org: Remembered and Reclaimed"[D]edicated to providing the inquisitive public with comprehensive, reliable, and accurate information concerning the history of African Americans in the United States and people of African ancestry in other regions of the world.”
- Chronicling ResistenceFree Library of Philadelphia
- Digital SchomburgRelying on the expertise of distinguished curators and scholars, Digital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global black experience 24/7. . . . [Contains] exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.
- Protests Against Racism Web Archive"The Protests Against Racism Web Archive contains a selection of websites documenting protests and activism sparked by the murder of George Floyd, where Mr. Floyd was the “tipping point,” the “last straw;” the web archive also includes websites documenting earlier killings of victims of racism and police brutality." Library of Congress
- Visualizing Emancipation"Funded by a We the People grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, it shows how emancipation occurred unevenly across the South, beginning before the first major battles and ending after the end of the Confederacy."
Related Research Guides
Museums
- Boston African American National Historical SiteNational Park Service.
- Museum of African American History, Boston and NantucketIncludes the "oldest African Meeting house* in America" along with the "Abiel Smith School."
- National Museum of African Art"The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art fosters the discovery and appreciation of the visual arts of Africa, the cradle of humanity." Smithsonian Institution.
- Royall House and Slave Quarters"In the eighteenth century, the Royall House and Slave Quarters was home to the largest slave-holding family in Massachusetts and the enslaved Africans who made their lavish way of life possible." Medford, Massachusetts.
See also this guide's Arts & Literature section.