Africana Studies

Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history.

The Black Studies Center (1893-) consists of scholarly journals, commissioned overview essays by top scholars in Black Studies, historic indexes, and the full-text of The Chicago Defender newspaper from 1910-1975.

Proquest's new Black Freedom Struggle website, features selected open access primary source documents including historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom.

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research needs of researchers, and students at the college and university level. The multi-disciplinary resource, collections cover topics from the Middle Ages to the twentieth-century. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies.

A comprehensive resource for primary sources in history, global studies, American studies, Asian studies, gender studies, theatre, music, and much more.