Africana Studies

Good Databases for This Subject

Academic Search Premier
A good source for journal articles, many full-text, in all disciplines.

America: History and Life 1954 -
US and Canadian history.

Ethnic Newswatch 1985 -
Articles from the ethnic and minority press.

Historical Abstracts 
World History from 1450 to the present, excluding the U.S. and Canada.

Primary Source Databases

Baltimore Afro-American, 1893-1988
Black Drama: 1850 - present
Black Thought and Culture
Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
Historical Newspapers (New York Times)1851-1999
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective