Save time! Search once for your topic in dozens of research databases.

Save time! Search once for your topic in dozens of research databases.

Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building a digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.

America: History and Life is a bibliograpahic reference of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. It contains indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews.

Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on more than half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. In addition to the full text biographies, Biography Reference Bank also includes links to feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, obituaries, and other biographical content.  The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.

Provides large numbers of primary documents with more than 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975, illustrate the evolution of what it means to "be black." Includes the only full run of The Black Panther - the party's newspaper - and 2,500 pages of oral history interviews recorded by the former Black Panther, David Hilliard. Teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, veterans, entertainers, and others are represented.

Access to the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books. EBSCO eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction (at Brooklyn College, almost 6,000 titles), and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles. 

EBSCO books are viewable online and may be checked out and viewed or downloaded using the Adobe Digital Editions reader.  The reader is available free at http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/.  The list of compatible devices is available at http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices. 

Access to the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books. EBSCO eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction (at Brooklyn College, almost 6,000 titles), and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles. 

EBSCO books are viewable online and may be checked out and viewed or downloaded using the Adobe Digital Editions reader.  The reader is available free at http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/.  The list of compatible devices is available at http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices. 

Education Full Text covers education trends, policies, case studies, and developments published in English-language periodicals and books. Range of education subjects is from early childhood through higher education. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996. As a source of education scholarship, this database aims to meet the needs of students, professionals, and policy makers. One of this database's featured content is its in-depth coverage of special education, with over 50 journals dedicated to this important topic. (now included in EBSCO's Education Source)

Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Ethnic NewsWatch provides thousands of scholarly, full-text articles for area and ethnic studies, such as Jewish studies, African American studies, and Hispanic American studies. This database also has the largest full-text archive of Native American publications.

The Middle East and Africa Database is a full-text database that provides area coverage (especially related to political development, social development, foreign policy, economic development, investment, oil and petrochemicals, trade and technological industries) for the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Arabs, Iranians, Turks and Africans worldwide, including in Europe and North and South America. In addition to selective citation and abstract coverage of the traditional scholarly literature, MIDA offers bibliographic access to 450,000+ documents relevant to study of the Middle East and Africa and full text access to over 300,000 hard-to-find primary source documents from global sources.

Project Muse offers nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers, covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Project MUSE provides full-text access to a comprehensive selection of humanities and social sciences journals.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive embraces the scholarly study of slavery and the slave trade in Europe, North and South America, Africa, and the Caribbean.  In addition to newspaper collections, books, and pamphlets published in the antebellum era, Slavery and Anti-Slavery contains documents from several archives originally available only on microfilm, including photographs and other images, as well as digitized journals. Brooklyn College Library provides access to Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition, and Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World.

This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers. Cited references are included for many journal articles.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has 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.  It is the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world.

Includes dozens of books and pamphlets in full text.

A searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color.

American History in Video provides a large and rich collection of video for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection contains commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.  Especially useful for study of the civil rights period.

The mission of the African American Visual Artists Database is to establish a free public access record of the historical and ongoing contribution of artists of African descent and of the African Diaspora to the visual arts, and to provide a visual and textual informational resource for non-profit educational use.  The database, which lists artists who have lived, worked, studied, or exhibited in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean (no search function), currently only provides bibliographic and exhibition information about artists, with images expected to be made available in 2011.

BWGF emphasizes the study of Black women, gender, families and communities. The journal welcomes research and theoretical submissions in history, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, education, economics, political science and English that are framed by Black Women's Studies perspectives and a policy or social analysis. Interdisciplinary, comparative and transnational studies of the African Diaspora and other women, families and communities of color are also encouraged. The journal coverage dates back to 2009 (Vol. 3) through the current issue.

Caribbean Studies is a multidisciplinary academic journal published since 1961 by the Institute of Caribbean Studies, College of Social Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. The journal publishes original works on the Social Sciences and the Humanities in English, Spanish or French languages. It is divided in four parts: articles, research notes, book reviews (including review essays of multiple books and individual reviews), and news and events. At present one of the bi-annual issues is usually a special thematic one.

Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Ethnic NewsWatch provides thousands of scholarly, full-text articles for area and ethnic studies, such as Jewish studies, African American studies, and Hispanic American studies. This database also has the largest full-text archive of Native American publications.

Presents research, scholarly essays and interviews to those concerned with the multiethnic scope of American literature, including Asian-American, African-American, Hispanic American, Native-American and immigrant European literature.

The mission of the journal is to expand current conversations on race and ethnicity by working across geographical and disciplinary boundaries and the theory/practice divide.

The Baltimore African-American (1893-1988) was the most widely circulated black newspaper on the Atlantic coast. It was the first black newspaper to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents. The paper’s contributors have included writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J. Saunders Redding, artist Romare Bearden, and sports editor Sam Lacy, whose column influenced the desegregation of professional sports.

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Their mission is to track the activities of hate groups and domestic terrorists across America, launch innovative lawsuits that seek to destroy networks of radical extremists.  The SPLC provides educators with free resources that teach school children to reject hate, embrace diversity and respect differences.  For statistical information, search the docket and view the Hate Map.

The publication of this historic collection in online form restores access to a substantial body of literature, originally published by the Heinemann African Writers Series, much of which is out of print and only accessible in specialist research libraries.  The searchable full-text collection covers the whole historical range of modern African fiction, and includes some of the most important works of African poetry.  Most of the works in the Series come from English-speaking countries in Western, Southern and Eastern Africa, but there are also a number of volumes translated from French, Portuguese, Zulu, Swahili, Acoli, Sesotho, Afrikaans, Luganda and Arabic.

Antislavery literature represents the origins of multicultural literature in the United States. The goal of the Antislavery Literature Project is to increase public access to a body of literature crucial to understanding African American experience, US and hemispheric histories of slavery, and early uman rights philosophies. These multilingual collections contribute to an educational consciousness of the role of many antislavery writers in creating contemporary concepts of freedomIncludes antislavery teaching guides, children's literature, contemporary slavery, legacies, news & papers, slave narratives, poetry, prose fiction, proslavery literature, religious literature, tracts, essays and speeches, travel accounts, treatises & general literature, videos and podcasts. Produced by the English departments of Arizona State University and Iowa State University.

Includes audio clips and links to 15 other sites. Includes timeline. English Server - Race & Ethnicity

80 short biographies.

Historical information and links.

Includes photos, interviews, and "a brief life history of Mary McLeod Bethune including her founding of the Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls" (now Florida's Bethune-Cookman College). Also features resources for teachers. From the Florida Memory Project.

Contains more than one million documents related to the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Research, opinion and analysis from experts.  Check the site library for full text documents.

Includes dozens of books and pamphlets in full text.

Includes slave narratives, lectures, travel accounts, political tracts, prose fiction, poetry, drama, religious and philosophicalliterature, compendia, journals, manifestoes and children's literature.

A searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color.

Focus on the lives of ordinary citizens during the time period.  Information drawn from newspapers and Manhattan District Attorney files.  Search for people, places and events.  Map results.

An archive of television shows  documenting over thirty years of Detroit history from African American perspectives. The collection includes interviews, round-table discussions, field-produced features and artistic performances featuring African Americans, many of who are among the nation's most recognized and controversial figures, and provides the visual and audio context of key debates and discussions surrounding African American history, culture, and politics.