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Ethnic and Racial Studies
-from Informaworld - Taylor & Francis
Holdings: 1998-

Du Bois Review
-from Cambridge Journals
Holdings: 2004-

Cross-Cultural Research
-from OCLC FirstSearch ECO
Holdings: 1999-2004

Callaloo
-from JSTOR
NOTE: Recent issues of this title (for the years 1995-2005) contain links to articles available through other online resources.
Holdings: 1976-

American Historical Review
-from JSTOR
"The scholarly voice of the American Historical Association," covering all fields of history.
Holdings: 1895-

American Historical Review
-from History Cooperative
Holdings: 1999-2007

African American Review
-from Literature Online Full-Text Journals
Holdings: 1994-

Proquest Historical Newspapers
Multi-database search interface that allows for simultaneous searching of the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Defender, Pittsbugh Courier and Wall Street Journal

GenderWatch
GenderWatch, formerly titled Women 'R', contains 40,000 articles from more than 100 journals, magazines, newsletters, special reports, unpublished papers and conference proceedings devoted to gender and women's issues.
Holdings: The database contains a large body of archival material, in some cases, as far back as 1970.

Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database
Bibliographic citations, with subject, country and region, and author indexing, for the periodical literature on Africa.
Holdings: Coverage varies.

African American Poetry (1750-1900)
Nearly 3,000 full-text poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Race Relations Abstracts

Black Literature Index
-from Black Studies Center
"This index allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. For citations to content from the Chicago Defender for which full text is available in Black Studies Center, a link is included directly to the relevant article."

Black Abolitionists Archive
University of Detroit Mercy Black Abolitionists Archive is an historical research center which contains an extensive primary source collection on antebellum black activism.

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Offers access to information about the cultural life and history in the 1800s, including first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, Also contains early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.

Part I: Freedom's Journal, New York, 1827-Mar. 1829; Colored American, New York, 1837-Mar. 1840; The North Star, Rochester, NY, 1847-July 1849; National Era, Washington, DC, 1847-Dec. 1848.

Part II: Colored American, 1840-41; The North Star, July 1849-1851; Frederick Douglass Papers (continuation of The North Star), 1851-May 1852; National Era, 1847-Dec. 1850; Provincial Freeman, Toronto, ON, 1854-Dec. 18, 1855.

Part III: Frederick Douglass Papers, May 1852-Dec. 1852; National Era, Dec. 1850-Dec. 1853; Provincial Freeman, Dec. 1855-57; The Christian Recorder, Toronto, ON, 1861-April 1862.

Part IV: The Christian Recorder, May 1862-Dec. 1864; National Era, Jan. 1854-Dec. 1855; Frederick Douglass Papers, Jan. 1853-Dec. 1854.

Part V: The Christian Recorder, Jan. 1865-June 1868; National Era, Jan. 1856-Dec. 1857; Frederick Douglass Papers, Jan. 1855-Dec. 1856.

Part VI: National Era, Jan. 1858-Mar. 1860; The Christian Recorder, July 1868-Dec. 1870.

Part VII: The Christian Recorder, Jan. 1872-Dec. 1876.

Part VIII: The Christian Recorder, Jan. 1877-Dec. 1882.

Part IX: The Christian Recorder, Jan. 1883-Dec. 1887.

Part X: The Christian Recorder, Jan. 1888-Dec. 1893 (excluding 1892)

Part XI: The Christian Recorder, Jan. 1894-Dec. 1898
Holdings: Parts 1 - 12

JSTOR
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching possible both within each title and across the whole database.

 

Penn's subscription currently includes all the available collections:

• the Arts & Sciences Collection I, II, III, IV, V, VI and the complement
• the Business II Collection
• the Biological Sciences Collection
• the Health & General Science Collection
• the Language and Literature Collection
• the Music Collection

 

Access to journals from JSTOR is restricted to current Penn faculty, staff and students.

Printing from the JSTOR database requires downloading a helper application called JPrint.
Holdings: active

Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950 - Microform Collection

African Americans in Philadelphia - Research Guide

Africana Studies - Research Guide

Ethnic and Alternative Newspapers--Guide

Slavery in the United States - Research Guide

Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations - Microform Collection

Early American Newspapers, 1690-1900
Based primarily on the listings in Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 and Winifred Gregory's Union list of serials in libraries of the United States and Canada, this database focuses on newspapers first published before the Civil War. The collection includes over 900 newspapers.

Philadelphia Tribune
Free registration required to access full text content.

Harpweek
Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912. Excellent interface for searching and retrieval.

Black Studies Center
Resource combining the Chicago Defender online (1910-1975), the International Index to Black Periodicals, the Black Literature Index (1827-1940) and a variety of multimedia resources exploring the black experience in the United States.

Accessible Archives
Accessible Archives offers five separate web-based resources, four of which are collections of historic American Newspapers and one of which is a genealogical source.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Full text archive of Phila Tribune, Jewish Exponent , and nearly 200 other ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals -- both English and Spanish.
Holdings: Covers 1960 to date. Updated monthly.

African American Song
Online music listening service presenting audio history of African American music, including jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, and other forms of African-American musical expression. The collection will eventually include 50,000 music tracks, many of them rare or never-before-published.

When complete, the collection will contain recordings by more than 2,300 performers spanning more than a hundred years including Ma Rainey, Lead Belly, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, William Bunk Johnson, Duke Ellington, Sophie Tucker, Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Sarah Vaughn, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Big Joe Williams, Memphis Jug Band, Roosevelt Sykes, Dizzy Gillespie, Chicago River Kings, Muddy Waters, Skip James, Blind Willie McTell, Lonnie Johnson, Alberta Jones, Johnny Shines, and Memphis Minnie, and more.

This first release offers access to over 16,000 track from Document Records--the worlds largest collection of rare and vintage blues, jazz, gospel, spiritual, boogie-woogie, and country recordings. From the earliest recordings of Afro-American music made in the late 19th century (including the Fisk Jubilee Singers, recorded at the turn of the century for Victor Records) to performances of the mid-1970s, in most instances the full recorded works of each artist are presented.

Eventually, African American Song will also deliver online access to the Alan Lomax Collection, a set of international field recordings by folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1930s through the 1960s, including the Jelly Roll Morton series (complete Library of Congress recordings), the Lead Belly series, and great artists and ensembles such as Son House, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Irma Thomas, Bessie Jones, Etta Baker, and the Georgia Sea Island Singers.

Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies

American Memory
"Historical Collections for the National Digital Library." A project of the Library of Congress.

Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience
-from Black Studies Center
interdisciplinary essays written by leading scholars on the Black Experience and other related materials

Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC)

Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
-from Oxford Reference Online

Black Women in America
-from Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
Second Edition

American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. Also included is the thirty-two-volume set of manuscript sources entitled Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, published between 1904 and 1907.

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
These life histories were compiled and transcribed by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress Administration from 1936-1940. The collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations. Pseudonyms are often substituted for individuals and places named in the narrative texts.

Africana Digitization Project
Searchable facsimiles of European accounts of Africa, ca. 1526-1680, in scholarly editions. Produced by University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
Numbering over 10,000 titles, May's pamphlets and leaflets document the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels. Much of the May Anti-Slavery Collection was considered ephemeral or fugitive, and today many of these pamphlets are scarce. Sermons, position papers, offprints, local Anti-Slavery Society newsletters, poetry anthologies, freedmen's testimonies, broadsides, and Anti-Slavery Fair keepsakes all document the social and political implications of the abolitionist movement.

The Geography of Slavery
"a digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers. Building on the rich descriptions of individual slaves and servants in the ads, the project offers a personal, geographical and documentary context for the study of slavery in Virginia, from colonial times to the Civil War."

Literature Online
LION is a searchable, full-text collection of over 250,000 works in English and American Literature. Separate databases are English Poetry (1100-1900), American Poetry (1600-1900), African-American Poetry (1750-1900), English Drama (1280-1915), Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780), Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700), The Bible In English (990-1970), Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911), Modern Poetry (1972-1997).

A Century of Lawmaking: U.S Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
The Library of Congress houses one of the most complete collections of U.S. Congressional documents in their original format. In order to make these records more easily accessible to students, scholars, and interested citizens, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75.

African-American Sheet Music

Historical Statistics of the United States Millenial Edition
The best starting-place for statistical information on the United States, for the colonial era and 1790-2000 (including the Confederate States of America). Presents 37,339 data series on population (including vital statistics, immigration and emigration), work and welfare (including labor, slavery, education, health, economic inequality and poverty, social insurance and public assistance), economic structure and performance (includuing national income and national product, business cycles, prices, consumer expenditures, savings, capital, and wealth, business organization, and financial markets and institutions), business sectors and industries, and governance and international relations (including government finance, elections and politics, crime and law enformcement, wars, armed forces, and veterans, and international trade and exchange rates).

Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
Holdings: ca. 1974- present. Updated three times a year.

LexisNexis Academic
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal materials. News sources also include magazines, broadcast transcripts, and wire services. Among the document sources included are the U.S. Code and Federal Case Law, state codes and case law, and U.S. patents.

Note that many Congressional publications including bills and laws, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register and campaign finance and voting record data which were previously available in LEXIS/NEXIS are now accessible through a companion database, Congressional Universe.

America: History and Life
History of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Holdings: 1964 to present. Updated three times a year.

African American Biographical Database
This collection contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person. Their stories are pivotal to an understanding of the Black American experience over the last two centuries.
Holdings: Persons active between 1790 and 1950. The database is updated bimonthly.

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
-from publisher website
IIBP Full Text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of over 20 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward).
Holdings: Time period varies depending on journal title