African-American Studies

Our most comprehensive EBSCO database covering humanities and sciences, including peer-reviewed journals, magazines, trade publications, books, book reviews, and more.

Covering more than 500 years of the African-American experience, African-American History offers a fresh way to explore the full spectrum of African-American history and culture, with tablet/mobile-friendly videos and slideshows, images, biographies of key people, event and topic entries, primary sources, maps and graphs, and timelines.

Coverage of the arts to the sciences, this database includes categories such as primary sources, biographies, multimedia, and more.

American History is an indispensable resource for student research. Spanning our nation’s history—from prehistory to the present day—American History was developed and curated by leading editors and scholars in the study of American history. It is composed of a variety of learning assets, including articles, images, primary source documents, timelines, videos, and slideshows.

Art Full Text offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Coverage dates:Indexing 1984+, Abstracting 1994+, "select" Full Text 1997+

A digital library that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Images can be organized into groups, exported as PowerPoint presentations, and shared with others.

Offers full-text profiles found in Biography Index, with interviews, reviews, and the ability to limit search by occupation, gender, place or origin, and birth date.

The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media. Provided by NewsBank.

Information on authors and their works, searchable by author, title, character, theme, movement, timeline, and more; videos of screen adaptations available.

Full text content in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

Presents controversial topics, with summary, overview, background, current situation, projections, charts or graphs, chronology, pro/con debate, and more.

A collection of databases which can be searched simultaneously. Subjects include business, education, art, literature, news, and more.

Subject areas including adult education, comparative education, government funding, higher education, school administration, teacher evaluation and more.

Covers the events, inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink.

Bilingual coverage of newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority, and native presses, offering an alternative viewpoint from the mainstream.

Access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors and their works from every age and literary discipline.

A simultaneous search of all our Gale databases including Gale Virtual Library, Opposing Viewpoints, Literature Resource Center, Contemporary Authors, and more.

HeinOnline Academic includes more than 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and many more.

Provides a simultaneous search of Facts on File’s history databases; covers American History, African-American History, American Indian History, Ancient & Medieval History, and Modern World History.

JSTOR contains academic journals, books, and primary sources covering a wide range of subjects.

HeinOnline’s LGBTQ+ Rights database consists of materials relating to the gay rights movement in America from 1950 until present day, including an interactive timeline, as well as subject-coded court cases, scholarly articles, books, pamphlets, reports, and more.

Information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames.

Modern World History offers a comprehensive look at world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of subject entries, biographies, images, videos and slideshows, maps and graphs, primary sources, and timelines combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history.

Contains many topics, each with an overview (objective background / description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).

A collection of ProQuest databases which can be searched simultaneously, containing scholarly journals, books, videos & audio, dissertations & theses, newspapers and more.

The two volumes of Issues in U.S. Immigration examine the many issues surrounding immigration—from the earliest settlement of British North America in the seventeenth century to the latest twenty-first century immigration legislation, including: Affordable Care Act and Undocumented Immigrants; DREAM Act; Real ID Act; and Secure Fence Act.

This collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. You can also find every English-language legal commentary on slavery published before 1920, more than a thousand pamphlets and books on slavery from the 19th century, and many modern histories of slavery.