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."

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

Literature Online Reference Resources
An 8-title collection of reference resources on poetry, the novel, and literary theory
Literature Online currently makes the following reference works searchable individually or as a group:

 

• The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (Routledge, 1994)
• Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (Columbia University Press, 1995)
• Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998)
• Encyclopedia of the Novel (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998)
• New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton University Press, 1993)
• The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story (Columbia University Press, 2001)
• The Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature (Columbia University Press, 1980)

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
The 351 titles in the collection include sermons on racial pride and political activism; annual reports of charitable, educational, and political organizations; and college catalogs and graduation orations from the Hampton Institute, Morgan College, and Wilberforce University. Also included are biographies, slave narratives, speeches by members of Congress, legal documents, poetry, playbills, dramas, and librettos. Other pamphlets focus on segregation, voting rights, violence against African-Americans, and the colonization of Africa by freed slaves.

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

Adams, David Wallace. . Education for extinction : American Indians and the boarding school experience, 1875-1928 / David Wallace Adams. 0700607358 (alk. paper) series Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1995. Call#: Univ Museum Library MUSEUM E97.5 .A35 1995

Gilcreast, Everett Arthur, 1932- . Richard Henry Pratt and American Indian policy, 1877-1906; a study of the assimilation movement. series [New Haven] Yale University, 1967 [Ann Arbor, University Microfilms, 1974] Call#: Van Pelt Library E93 .G55 1974

Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924. . Battlefield and classroom; four decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904. Edited and with an introd. by Robert M. Utley. series New Haven, Yale University Press, 1964. Call#: Van Pelt Library E97.6.C2 P89 1964

Engs, Robert Francis. . Freedom's first generation : Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890 / Robert Francis Engs. 0812277686 series Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979. Call#: Van Pelt Library F234.H23 E54

Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1942- . Alexander Crummell : a study of civilization and discontent / Wilson Jeremiah Moses. 0195050967 (alk. paper) series Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. Call#: Van Pelt Library E185.97.C87 M67 1989

Engs, Robert Francis. . Educating the disfranchised and disinherited : Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute : 1839-1893 / Robert Francis Engs. 1st ed. 1572330511 (perm. paper) series Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1999.
Call#: Van Pelt Library LC2851.H313 .A764 1999

Lindsey, Donal F., 1951- . Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923 / Donal F. Lindsey. 0252021061 (alk. paper) series Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1995. Call#: Van Pelt Library E97.65.V8 D56 1995

GarciL
a, Mario T. . Desert immigrants : the Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920 / Mario T. GarciL
a. 0300025203 series New Haven : Yale University Press, 1981. Call#: Van Pelt Library F394.E4 G36

Ostler, Jeffrey. . Plains Sioux and U.S. colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee / Jeffrey Ostler. 0521793467 series Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Call#: University Museum Library MUSEUM E99.D1 O85 2004

Bailyn, Bernard. . Education in the forming of American society: needs and opportunities for study. 0393006433 series New York, Norton [1972, c1960] Call#: Van Pelt Library LA206 .B3 1972

Satz, Ronald N. . American Indian policy in the Jacksonian era [by] Ronald N. Satz. 0803208235 series Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [1974, c1975] Call#: Van Pelt Library E93 .S27

Litwack, Leon F. . North of slavery : the Negro in the free states, 1790-1860 / Leon F. Litwack. series Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1965, c1961. Call#: Van Pelt Library E185.9 .L5 1965

Webber, Thomas L. . Deep like the rivers : education in the slave quarter community, 1831-1865 / Thomas L. Webber. 1st ed. 0393056856 series New York : Norton, c1978.
Call#: Van Pelt Library E443 .W4 1978

Electronical version of one of the 19th centuries most important magazines. Includes a tremendous collection of images