Subject Guide: African-American History

Here are some sources you may want to consider if you are researching African-American History:

Search Terms:


American History
African-American History
Slavery
Civil Rights

Reference Books:


1001 things everyone should know about African American history E185 .S798 2006
Creating Black Americans : African-American history and its meaning, 1619 to the present E185 .P15 2006
Encyclopedia of African American history : from the colonial period to the age of Frederick Douglass (1619-1895) E185 .E545 2006 V.1
The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights : from emancipation to the twenty-first century E185.61 .E54 2003 V.1
Encyclopedia of antislavery and abolition HT1031 .E53 2007 V.1
Encyclopedia of slave resistance and rebellion E447 .E53 2007 V.1
Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction era E668 .E53 2006 V.1



Browse the Stacks

Look in the DT (Africa) and E (United States) sections

Online Databases:

Black Studies Center
Chicago Defender
Ademic OneFile
Academic Search Premier

Recommended Web Sites:


African-American History and Culture
African-American World
African_American History (from the National Park Service)
Blackfacts
Freedmen and Southern Society Project (from University of Maryland)
Freedom's Journal (First African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States)

Photographs from the Library of Congress:

Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom From the Collections of the Library of Congress (includes illustrations)
Photographs of African Americans During the Civil War: A List of Images in the Civil War Photograph Collection (includes illustrations)
Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination: Documentation by Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photographers (includes illustrations)
Images of 20th Century African American Activists: A Select List (includes illustrations)
The Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News and World Report Collection: A Select List

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