Research Guides: African-American History: Secondary Sources

Secondary Sources

These catalogs, websites, and databases will provide guidance to find scholarly literature on African-American history.

America: History & Life
Bibliographic database containing citations to articles on the history, culture and current affairs of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

The Black Past
BlackPast.org is the largest free and unrestricted reference center on African American and Global African History currently on the Internet.

Cambridge Histories
Covers a range of subjects focusing on history, but also includes literature, political philosophy, religion, theatre, and music.
JSTOR
Online archive of peer reviewed/scholarly journals in all disciplines.
LibrarySearch
Covers items owned by the UO Libraries, regional partners, and articles and other scholarly research materials.
Oxford Reference
Language and subject dictionaries and reference works
WorldCat
WorldCat provides access to library catalogs from around the world. The database contains millions of bibliographic records describing books, journals, maps, musical scores, recordings, videos, manuscripts, etc.

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