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- Academic search premier (EBSCO)
    
Coverage: 1975-
"multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles."--Provider description.
Indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 journals. Search can be limited to book reviews.
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- Accessible archives
Provides selected text from newspaper collections: Pennsylvania gazette 1728-1800; The Civil War: a newspaper perspective (Nov. 1860-Apr. 1865); African
American newspapers: the 19th century; The Liberator (1831-1865).
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- Africa development indicators
Coverage: 1960- (where data are available)
ADI contains over 1,000 indicators covering 53 African countries on topics including private sector development, infrastructure, human development, agriculture,
rural development, environment, population, labor, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and household welfare. The ADI Data Availability Query shows where data is available for a given country, series, and year.
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- Africa on Film
Hesburgh Library Resources and Media Resources for Africa on Film.
- African American newspapers, 1827-1998
"online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience... from more than 35 states ...
created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the United States--those of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress."--Publisher's overview.
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- African American Newspapers: the 19th Century (see Accessible archives)
African American newspapers: the 19th century is a separately searchable part of Accessible archives.
- African development indicators (see Africa development indicators)
Coverage: 1960- (where data are available)
- African newspapers
Coverage: 1800-1922
Searchable collection of historical African newspapers. Includes dozens of newspapers published between 1800 and 1922 in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi,
Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
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- African studies companion online
An annotated guide which lists print and electronic information resources in African studies. Provides many links to online resources.
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- African writers series
Key texts of modern African literature, published under the Heinemann African Writers Series imprint, including fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional
prose.
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- African-American poetry
- Aluka
"scholarly resources from and about Africa ... ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional
models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides."--History and mission page.
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- America's historical newspapers
"... allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922 [and beyond], including titles from all 50 states.
Created by Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and others ..."--"About" page.
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- America, history and life (EBSCO)
Coverage: 1910-
Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Search can
be limited to book reviews. Usage info: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
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- American black journal
Recognizing the unique historical value of the 40 year run of the series now known as American Black Journal, Detroit Public Television (DPTV) has worked
with Michigan State University (MSU) to develop a $1.4 million plan to catalog, preserve, and provide broad public access to the entire corpus of the shows.
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- American broadsides and ephemera. Series I
"Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection ... offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed
between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900."--Product description.
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- American Civil War research database
"Contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. ... In addition to 222
volumes of rosters published by the state Adjutants Generals, the database includes the military records for every soldier in the collection as well as Official Records, pension index records, 1860 census records, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) records, Roll of Honor records, Medal of Honor records, and regimental histories. This information has been compiled from personal items, graveyards, and newspaper reports."--About page.
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- American state papers, 1789-1838
Coverage: 1789-1838
Search or browse U.S. congressional materials originating from 1789 and covering through 1838, including 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress,
2nd Session.
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- Ancestry library edition
Searchable genealogical information on billions of names across thousands of census and related collections.
- Anthropological literature
Coverage: Began in 199-?
A bibliographic index to articles in journals and edited works received by Harvard's Tozzer Library. Coverage includes core anthropology and archaeology
journals as well as interdisciplinary resources. Subject areas include anthropological perspectives on economics, ethnology, folklore, human evolution, linguistics, material culture, medicine, museum studies, primatology, psychology, religion, visual studies, and zooarchaeology. Usage info: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
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- Atlanta daily world (ProQuest historical newspapers)
Coverage: 1931-2003
Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for the Atlanta world (1931-1932) and the Atlanta daily world (1932-2003). Includes digital
reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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- Black drama
Coverage: 1850-present
Contains the full text of more than 1,400 plays, written from the 1850s to the present, by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking
Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Includes information on productions, theaters, and production companies. Also included, selectively, are production photographs, as well as images of playbills and other ephemera.
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- Black short fiction and folklore
Contains thousands of stories, folktales, and works of short fiction by African, African American, and Caribbean authors.
- Black thought and culture
"source for the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000
pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials... intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art."--'About the database' page.
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- Black women in America
- Black women writers
Literature and essays written by black women from Africa and the African Diaspora. A tool for understanding the feminine perspective on the diversity and
development of black people in the Diaspora.
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- BlackPast.org
Provides reference materials on six centuries of African American history. Includes an online encyclopedia of hundreds of famous and lesser known figures
in African America, full text primary documents and major speeches of black activists and leaders from the 18th century to the present. Links to hundreds of websites covering the history of African Americans, including major black museums and archival research centers in the U.S. and Canada.
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- Boston globe (ProQuest historical newspapers)
Coverage: 1872-1979
Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Boston daily globe (1872-1960) and Boston globe (1960-1979). Includes digital reproductions
providing access to every page from every available issue.
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- Caribbean literature
"a searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. ... numerous rare and hard-to-find works written
in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages."--Publisher's description.
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- Catalog of U.S. government publications
Coverage: 1976-
Finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. Provides direct links
to publications that are available online. With more than 500,000 records generated since July 1976, the catalog will grow to include records for publications dating back to the late 1800s. Online counterpart of the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (printed version ceased with Dec. 2004). The Monthly Catalog should be consulted for pre-1976 indexing.
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- CensusCD neighborhood change database (NCDB)
Usage info: Licensed for 10 simultaneous users.
- Chicago defender (ProQuest historical newspapers)
Coverage: 1910-1975
Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Chicago defender, Big weekend ed. (1910-1966); Chicago defender, National ed. (1921-1967);
Daily defender, Daily ed. (1956-1960); Chicago daily defender, Daily ed. (1960-1973); Chicago daily defender, Big weekend ed. (1966-1973); Chicago defender, Big weekend ed. (1973-1975); and Chicago defender , Daily ed. (1973-1975). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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- Chicago tribune (ProQuest historical newspapers)
Coverage: 1849-1987
Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Chicago daily tribune (1849-1858), Chicago press and tribune (1858-1860), Chicago tribune
(1860-1872), Chicago daily tribune (1872-1963), and Chicago tribune (1963-1987). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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- Civil War: a Newspaper perspective (see Accessible archives)
Civil War: a Newspaper perspective is a separately searchable part of Accessible archives.
- Discovering American women's history online
This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women
in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas's photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century.
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- Dissertation abstracts online (see Dissertations and theses)
- Dissertations and theses, full text
Coverage: 1861- (Indexing); 1980- (Abstracting dissertations), 1988- (Abstracting theses), 1997- (Full-text dissertations, where available)
Provides information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted
at an accredited institution since 1861. Offers full text for most dissertations (Notre Dame and other) added since 1997. Access info: Access to full text (PDF) of Notre Dame dissertations since 1997, restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs.
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- Early American imprints. Series I, Evans, 1639-1800
Covering American history and literature from the colonial period through the 18th century, this database of some 37,000 titles is a full-text digitization
of the microform set Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800), which was itself based on the American bibliography of Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American bibliography.
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- Early American imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this database provides full-text access to 36,000 American books,
pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the 19th century. Based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
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- Early American newspapers (see America's historical newspapers)
"... allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. Created by
Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and others ..."--"About" page.
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- Encyclopedia of Africa
Entries focus on African history and culture and are based on the 5-volume print publication: Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American
experience, 2nd ed., 2005.
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- Encyclopedia of African American history, 1619-1895
In nearly 700 entries, this set documents the full range of the African American experience during the period from the arrival of the first slave ship
to the death of Frederick Douglass, and shows how all aspects of American culture, history, and national identity have been profoundly influenced by the experience of African Americans.
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- Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present
Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this
encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy , the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape. --Publisher description.
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- Ethnic newsWatch
Coverage: 1959-
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority and native press in the U.S.
- Expanded academic ASAP
Coverage: 1980-
Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,500+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines
(citations only for The New York Times). Search can be limited to book reviews.
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- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports
Coverage: 1951-1996, as of May 2011
"Created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical
events from thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications. Translated into English from more than 50 languages - from Arabic to Swahili - these comprehensive media reports from around the globe include news, interviews, speeches and editorial commentary."--Product description.
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For 1996- use World news connection
- Frederick Douglass papers at the Library of Congress
The first release of the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress contains approximately 2,000 items relating to Douglass's life as an escaped
slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. The papers span the years 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862-1895. The collection also contains the writings of some of Douglass's contemporaries such as Henry Ward Beecher, Ida B. Wells, Gerrit Smith, and Horace Greeley. Subjects covered in the collection include politics, emancipation, racial prejudice, women's suffrage, and prison reform.
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- GPO monthly catalog (see Catalog of U.S. government publications)
Finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. Provides direct links
to publications that are available online. With more than 500,000 records generated since July 1976, the catalog will grow to include records for publications dating back to the late 1800s. Online counterpart of the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (printed version ceased with Dec. 2004). The Monthly Catalog should be consulted for pre-1976 indexing.
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- HathiTrust Digital Library.
A digital repository for the nation's great research libraries that brings together the immense collections of its partner institutions. It was initially
conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.
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HathiTrust Frequently Asked Questions
- In motion
A new interpretation of African American history over the last 400 years which includes essays, books, articles, manuscripts, illustrations, lesson plans,
maps and music.
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- In the first person
Provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. With future releases, the index will broaden
to identify other first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives.
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- Index Islamicus
Coverage: 1906-
Index to literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, and Muslim minorities elsewhere. Includes citations to over 2,000 journals,
conference proceedings, monographs, and book reviews from 1906 to present.
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- Latin American women writers
"an extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Also included
are essays by Latin American feminists and revolutionaries ..."--Home page.
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- Left index (EBSCO)
Coverage: 1982-
Provides citations and abstracts, with some full text, to publications from leftist and radical media worldwide since 1982, covering topics such as the
labor movement, ecology and the environment, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization. Usage info: Licensed for 1 simultaneous user.
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- LexisNexis government periodicals index (see ProQuest government periodicals index)
Coverage: 1988-
Indexes the contents of more than 300 U.S. federal government periodicals; provides links from a list of periodicals indexed to full-text periodical issues
when available.
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- Liberator (see Accessible archives)
Liberator is a separately searchable part of Accessible archives.
- Los Angeles sentinel (ProQuest historical newspapers)
Coverage: 1934-2005
Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Los Angeles sentinel (1934-2005). Includes digital reproductions providing access to
every page from every available issue.
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- Microsoft Encarta africana 2000
Mode of access: CD-ROMs in Reserve Book Room.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic DT 14 .M537 1999
An encyclopedia on the history, geography, and culture of Africans and people of African descent. Features audio clips, photos, illustrations, and videos.
Includes a library of Black America (collection of poems, narratives, and novels by African Americans, dated 1773 to 1918).
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- New York Amsterdam news (ProQuest historical newspapers)
Coverage: 1922-1993
Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for New York Amsterdam news (1922-1938), New York Amsterdam news (1938-1941 : City ed.),
New York Amsterdam news (1943-1961 : City ed.), New York Amsterdam news (1962-1993), New York Amsterdam star-news (1941-1943), and New York star & Amsterdam news (1941-1941). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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- Oral history online
Provides indexing to English language oral histories held in repositories and collections; includes interview-level records (some with full text; some
with links to audio or video on external websites).
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- Oxford encyclopedia of African thought
- PCI full text (see Periodicals archive online)
Full text searchable journal collection of 350+ periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (a subset of Periodicals index online). See Periodicals
index online for more extensive indexing and links to selected full text articles.
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- PCI index (see Periodicals index online)
Index to millions of articles in over 4,500 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published beginning 1770 or subsequently; scope is
worldwide, covering major Western languages. Complete PCI Index, including links to selected full text articles. Only the index is searchable.
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- Pennsylvania Gazette (see Accessible archives)
Pennsylvania Gazette is a separately searchable part of Accessible archives.
- Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text)
Coverage: Beginning thru 1995.
Full text searchable journal collection of 350+ periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (a subset of Periodicals index online). See Periodicals
index online for more extensive indexing and links to selected full text articles.
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- Periodicals index online
Coverage: Beginning thru 1995
Index to millions of articles in over 4,500 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published beginning 1770 or subsequently; scope is
worldwide, covering major Western languages. Complete PCI Index, including links to selected full text articles. Only the index is searchable.
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- Pittsburgh courier (ProQuest historical newspapers)
Coverage: 1911-2002
Provides full page and article images with searchable full text for Pittsburgh courier (1910-1950 : City ed.), Courier (1950-1954 : City ed.), Pittsburgh
courier (1955-1966 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1966-1981 : City ed.), and New Pittsburgh courier (1981-2002). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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- ProQuest government periodicals index
Coverage: 1988-
Indexes the contents of more than 300 U.S. federal government periodicals; provides links from a list of periodicals indexed to full-text periodical issues
when available.
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- PsycINFO
Coverage: 1806-
Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects
of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
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- Recent Acquisitions in Africana Studies
This is a dynamic link listing books on Africana studies acquired in the last 30 days.
- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
"Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography [Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time],
this [online] collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions ..."--Gale databases description.
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- School Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia
Search or browse materials on the activities of the Norfolk School Board, the Norfolk Committee on Public Schools, an attorney representing the plaintiffs
in the lawsuits initiated to reopen the schools and information on Virginia's reaction to the Supreme Court's decision.
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- Slavery and manumission manuscripts of Timbuktu
"From the Bibliotheque Commemorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali, a collection of [209] 19th century manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission
in Timbuktu. The materials, in Arabic, provide documentation on Africans in slavery in Muslim societies." Includes search engine which allows subject browsing and keyword and document number searching.
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- Social theory
Full-text searchable books and articles by major and minor social thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Sociological abstracts (ProQuest)
Coverage: 1952-
Abstracts and indexes international literature in sociology and related disciplines in social and behavioral sciences. Citations to journal articles, book
reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
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- Trans-atlantic slave trade
"Information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth
centuries."
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- Trans-Atlantic slave trade
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic HT 1322 .T74 1999
Contains records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866. Allows tracking by time period and geographic region. Includes
interactive maps for charting trans-Atlantic connections.
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- Twentieth century African-American poetry
A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the 20th century; complete text of each poem with any integral
textual images or illustrations. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users.
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Link to list of LION collections
Link to LION home page
- Twentieth century American newspapers (see America’s Historical Newspapers)
- U.S. Congressional serial set
Coverage: years 1817-1994
- Virginia Company archives
Documentation for the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. Includes the
Ferrar Papers which are in Magdalene College, Cambridge and four volumes of The Records of the Virginia Company of London (Washington, D.C., 1906-35), edited by Susan Myra Kingsbury.
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- WorldCat
A worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 OCLC member institutions. With millions of online records built from the
bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.
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- 20th century African-American poetry (see Twentieth century African-American poetry)
A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the 20th century; complete text of each poem with any integral
textual images or illustrations.
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- 20th century American newspapers (see America’s historical newspapers)
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