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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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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
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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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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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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.
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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Social theory
Full-text searchable books and articles by major and minor social thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth 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
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U.S. Congressional serial set
Coverage: years 1817-1994
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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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