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Databases & Article Searching lists all Yale databases.
Search the E-Resource database:
Selected Databases
- Accessible Archives
- ACLS History E-Book Project
- America: History and Life
- Background Notes (U.S. State Department)
- Black Studies Center
- Black Studies Database
- Black Thought and Culture
- International Index to Black Periodicals
- Dictionary of American History
- Directory of American Scholars
- Early American Newspapers
- Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
- Encyclopedia of the American Civil War
- Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- Gutenberg-e
- History Compass
- History Cooperative
- Lexis-Nexis Primary Sources in U.S. History
- Original Sources
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set
Art, Literature, & Culture
Search Orbis by Subject Heading:
- American literature Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 History and criticism
- Art and society United States History 20th century
- Decorative arts United States History
- Politics and culture United States History 20th century
Arts, Images, Literature, and Music
Arts and Images | Literature and Slave Narratives | Music | The Harlem Renaissance | Selected Internet Sites- Ad*Access Project
- American Memory Library of Congress
- American Photography: A Century of Images
- Black Thought and Culture
- California Heritage Collection
- Civil War Photographs
- Early American Digital Library
- Guide to Finding Digital Images
- The History Place
- Images of American Political History
- Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Media Database (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities)
- National Archives Online Exhibits
- National Park Service Links to the Past
- National Portrait Gallery
- New Deal
- NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
- USDA Historical Photos
- Women and Social Movements
- African-American/African Diaspora Studies Audiocassettes and Videotapes (UC Berkeley Library)
- African American Studies Digital Collection (Yale)
- Black Film Center/Archive (Indiana U.)
- California Newsreel
- Carl Van Vechten Photographs (Library of Congress)
- Civil War Photographs
- Digital Schomberg: Images of African Americans from the 19th Century. (NY Public Library) Searchable archive of photographs and images.
- Films/Videos About the African-American Experience (First Run/Icarus Films)
- African American Literature Online (UVA Multicultural Pavilion Project)
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (Digital Schomberg Full Text)
Literature and Slave Narratives
A list of Selected Literature available Full-Text.
- African American Poetry Database (1760-1900) (Through Yale University Library)
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (Digital Schomberg Full Text)
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (American Memory, LoC)
- Documenting the American South: Beginnings to 1920. (UNC Chapel Hill Library) Virtual library includes slave narratives and southern literature.
- Post-1900 African American Literature (William Paterson University)
- Texts by and about African-Americans from the Modern English Collection (UVA Electronic Text Center)
- African-American/African Diaspora Studies Audiocassettes and Videotapes (UC Berkeley Library)
- African-American Music Collection (UMich)
- African-American Music Websites (blackrefer.com)
- African-American Sheet Music (American Memory @ Library of Congress)
- Archives of African American Music and Culture (Indiana U.)
- Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals (American Memory @ Library of Congress)
- Center for Southern African-American Music (U of South Carolina)
- Google: African-American Music Listings
- International Association of African-American Music
- Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project
- Yahoo! African-American Music Listings
- Harlem 1900-1940: An African American Community (Schomberg Center)
- Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
- The Harlem Renaissance (Encyclopedia Britannica)
- Harlem Renaissance Poetry, Prose and Art Collection
Search Orbis by Subject Heading:
- African Americans Bibliography
- Constitutional history United States Bibliography
- United States Politics and government Bibliography
- United States Social conditions Bibliography
- Women United States History Bibliography
Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
African-American Bibliographies Mississippi State University web site, 1998.
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. Library of Congress web site, 1997.
African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography. Ed. James P Danky. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. SML, Reference Z6944 N39 +A37X 1998.
African-American Studies. Georgetown U. American Studies web site, 1998.
African and African American Studies at UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley Library web site, 1998.
Bataille, Gretchen, Miguel Carranza, and Laurie Lisa. Ethnic Studies in the United States: A Guide to Research. New York: Garland, 1996. SML, Reference E184 A1 B275X 1996.
Blacks in Latin America and the Caribbean: Selected Bibliographic Sources. UT Austin Library web site, 1990.
Blockson, Charles L. A Commented Bibliography of One Hundred and One Influential Books By and About People of African Descent, 1556-1982: A Collector's Choice. Amsterdam: A. Gerits & Sons, 1989. SML Z1361 N39 +B585 1989. (LC)
Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, U. of Michigan. Black Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport: Greenwood, 1985. SML Z1361 N39 B553 1985.
Davis, Nathaniel. Afro-American Reference: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Resources. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. SML, Reference Z1361 N39 D37 1985. (LC)
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639 - 1800
Works issued in America from 1639 to 1800. The collection is comprised of the non-serial titles recorded by Charles Evans in his American Bibliography and additional items identified by Roger Pattrell Bristol in Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1810-1819
Full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. It is the continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, based on the bibliography by Ralph B. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and has been supplemented by thousands of new items.
Early American Newspapers
Reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing fully text-searchable facsimile images. This collection is based largely on Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
Primary sources: documents the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850.
Evans, V. Tessa Perry. African-American Studies. Rutgers University Library
Gubert, Betty Kaplan. Early Black Bibliographies, 1863-1918. New York: Garland Pub, 1982. SML, Reference Z1361 N39 E25. (LC)
IBR - International Bibliography of Book Reviews
The Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1992-. Compiled by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture reference librarians. SML, Reference Z1361 N39 +K34X 1992. (LC)
Miller, Elizabeth W. The Negro in America: A Bibliography. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2d ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. SML, Reference Z1361 N39 M55 1970 (LC) and CCL Z1361 N39 M55 1970.
Mageli, Paul D. The Immigrant Experience: An Annotated Bibliography. Pasedena: Salem, 1991. SML Z1361 E4 M334X 1991.
Miller, Joseph Calder. Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography, 1900-1991. Millwood, NY: Kraus, 1993. SML, Reference Z7164 S6 +M543 1993.
Miller, Wayne Charles. A Comprehensive Bibliography for the Study of American Minorities. New York: New York UP, 1976. 2 v. SML, Reference Z1361 E4 +M52. Also in SML, Andrews Study Z1361 E4 +M529.
Murray, Paul T. The Civil Rights Movement: References and Resources. New York: G. K. Hall, 1993. SML, Reference Z1361 N39 M93X 1993.
Plunkett, Martin, ed. Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts. Charlottesville: UP of Va.
Porter, Dorothy. The Negro in the United States: A Selected Bibliography. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1970. SML, Reference Z1361 N39 P67. (LC)
Racism in the United States: A Comprehensive Classified Bibliography. Comp. Meyer Weinberg. New York: Greenwood, 1990. SML, Reference Z1361 E4 R33 1990.
Resources in African-American Studies. Columbia University Library
Smith, Dwight La Vern. Afro-American History: A Bibliography. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1974. Over 4,000 citations drawn from America: History and Life. SML, Reference Z1361 N39 +S65. (LC)
Tischauser, Leslie Vincent. Black/White Relations in American History: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham: Scarecrow, 1998. SML, Reference Z1361 N39 T57X 1998.
ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History
Current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history.
Westmoreland, Guy T. An Annotated Guide to Basic Reference Books on the Black American Experience. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1974. SML, Reference Z1361 N39 W49. (LC)
Work, Monroe Nathan. A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and in America. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1928. SML, Reference Z1361 N39 W67 (LC) and SML X413 1928.
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600 - 2000
Primary source documents covering women's social movements from 1600 to 2000.
Statistical Resources
Search Orbis by Subject Heading:
- African Americans Statistics
- Blacks United States Statistics
- Cities and towns United States Statistics
- United States Commerce Statistics
- United States Statistics
American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) includes quantitative data on American religion and allows comparisons across data files: churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).
The Black population in the United States US Census Bureau
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
County & city data book US Census Bureau
Digest of Education Statistics compiles nationwide statistical information on American education from prekindergarten through graduate school.
SML, Reference Desk HA202 A23 1975 (LC)+
Educational achievement and black-white inequality
Historical Statistics of the United States Colonial Times to 1970
Housing in metropolitan areas : Black households
LexisNexis Statistical Searches, at the table level, U.S. Federal Government (1974-present), international intergovernmental (1983-present), state government and privately published documents (1981-present) that contain statistics.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development US Statistics
StatCat: Social Science Data Search
Information about numeric datasets in the Yale Social Science Data Archive, as well as datasets available in the Yale University Library and on the Internet. Subject coverage includes: public opinion surveys, census data, health data, economic and social indicators, surveys of electoral behavior. Data are available for the United States and foreign countries; datasets may cover a single country or multiple countries. Historical and contemporary data are included.
Statistical Abstract of the United States Summary of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the United States.
STAT-USA (U.S. Bureau of the Census) Economic, business, and international trade information produced by the U.S. Federal government.
US Statistics Infoplease
- American Memory Culture, Folklife Collections
- Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events: Pre-1620 to 1920
- Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
- History and Culture Smithsonian Institution
- History, Arts and Culture FirstGov
- Links to the Past Cultural Groups
- Vaudeville Nation New York Public Library
- American and British History Resources (Rutgers University)
- American Memory at the Library of Congress
- American Museum of Photography is an online archive of over 5,000 images, mostly dating from 1839 to World War I.
- American Studies at the University of Virginia
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- Historical Maps of the United States: The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at UT-Austin. Maps organized chronologically and by topic.
- The History Place contains exhibits about many eras of US and European history, emphasizing military and political history.
- Library of Congress
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Tennessee Technological University History Site
- The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History
Contact Gregory Eow, Kaplanoff Librarian for American History and American Studies,
Research Services and Collections, Sterling Memorial Library.
Updated February 14, 2008