Research Guides:
African American History
Library Catalogs / Electronic Databases / Internet Resources
Bibliographic Lists: Communities / Primary
Sources
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Library Catalogs
MATC Library Online Catalog provides access to books, magazines, reserve material, audio-visual material (for example, videos), and web resources. Searchable by subject heading or keyword. Most history books will be located in the 900’s at the back of the library.
Suggested subject search terms: blacks, african american, negroes, negro, african americans chicago, harlem, african americans sources. Subject headings have changed throughout time; depends on when book was written and catalogued. You may want to check several of these.
Note: the subject heading of sources - usually indicates primary source material.
Suggested keyword search terms: african american, freedmen, plantation, slavery, slaves and virginia.
Search for African American History books in the MATC Libraries by entering a subject term or a keyword search:
Other Library Catalogs can be accessed from MATC libraries web page.
Search the University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries catalog- MadCat which includes holdings at the Wisconsin State Historical Library & Archives. UW Borrowing Card: The MATC Libraries have an agreement with the UW-Madison Libraries to provide a borrowing card free of charge to MATC students. Stop in at any of the MATC Libraries to learn more and fill out the form.
- MadCat catalog: try guided keyword search.
- Set limits: location = Historical Society Library or check all holdings.
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JSTOR
Archive of scholarly journals. Titles include: African American Review 1992-1996, Callaloo 1976-1994, Journal of Black Studies 1970-1996, Journal of Negro Education 1932-1994, Journal of Negro History 1916-1996, Transition 1961-199,4 and others.
Academic Search Elite or Expanded Academic ASAP or Academic Onefile
Use these academic databases to find articles from scholarly and history journals. Full-text titles include: History Today, History Review, American History, The Western Journal of Black Studies, Journal of American Ethnic History, African American Review, Journal of Social History, and others. Use the scholarly / peer-reviewed limiters to help focus your search.
African American Biographical Database
Biographical information on African Americans. 1790-1950.
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Chicago Defender (1921-1975) Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), New York Times(1851 – three years prior to present year )
Full page images of the Chicago Defender , Chicago Tribune, New York Times. Complete with illustrations, advertisements, obituaries, etc. as they appeared in the newspaper at that time.
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African-American
Newspapers & Periodicals
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/index.asp
Digitization of Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and operated
newspaper published in the United States. The Journal was published weekly in
New York City from 1827 to 1829. Freedom's Journal provided international, national,
and regional information on current events and contained editorials declaiming
slavery, lynching, and other injustices.
African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920
http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/
Ohio Historical Society
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Primary source collections from the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program.
African American Perspectives
Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
Primary source materials from 1818-1907. Try a search of descriptive info. with name of a community ex. atlanta
Or search all collections
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amtitle.html
Includes historical documents, narratives, photographs, music such as 1939 Lomax field recordings, African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920, and more.
Documenting
the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/collections.html
Documenting the American South is a collection of sources on Southern history,
literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of
the 20th century. As of March 1, 2004, DAS includes 1,266 books and manuscripts.
Ebook Subject Collections: African-American
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-afam.html
University of Virginia Library. Note: Not all works are by African-American authors
Harlem: Mecca of
the New Negro
http://etext.virginia.edu/harlem/
A Hypermedia Edition of the March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem Number from the
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
In Motion: The African American Migration Experience
http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm?bhcp=1
NYPL The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
John Henrik Clarke Africana Library
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/digital/
Cornell University Library links to digital historical texts
Making of America
(MOA)
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Digital library of primary resources in American social history from the antebellum
period through reconstruction including sociology as well as education, psychology,
American history, religion, science and technology. Try using the advanced search
with colored or negro as search terms. Note: These are primary source materials
so the search terms reflect the language used in the time period. You can also
add a geographic community name ex. Chicago as a search term and set dates to
the desired range.
MATC Libraries History_AfricanAmerican Tags at Del.icio.us
Explore these links selected by MATC Library staff using Del.icio.us, a social bookmarking website.
Race & Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/raceandplace/
Race and Place is an archive about the racial segregation laws, or the 'Jim Crow' laws from the late 1880s until the mid-twentieth century from the University of Virginia.
United
States Historical Census Data Browser
http://fisher.lib.Virginia.EDU/census/
describes the people and the economy of the U.S. for each state and country
from 1790 to 1970
Wisconsin Electronic Reader -- stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies,
journals and tidbits from Wisconsin history Wisconsin History-Related Internet
Resources (from the Wisconsin State Historical Society).
Virginia Black History Archives (VBHA) Project
http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/vbha/vbha.html
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
Wisconsin State
Historical Library
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org
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Citations
Chicago Style Citations
MATC Libraries History Research Guide
Knightcite
http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/index.php
This is a free citation-producing service (MLA , APA, and Chicago) created by the Heckman Library at Calvin College.
MATC Virtual Writing Center
http://matcmadison.edu/is/writingcenter/
The MATC Writing Center is available to all students at MATC who have writing needs. The Center hopes to provide support and assistance to students from all programs and departments in which teachers assign writing projects.
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