African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, provides searchable, online access to approximately 250 U.S. newspapers from 37 states.

Searchable collection of rare and popular literature of race, place, and gender.

A digital archive of American historical newspapers from the 19th century, including over 1.5 million full-text pages, many complete with images.

Database of funding opportunities for research

Sheet music from the Indiana University Lilly Library, the Indiana State Library, the Indiana State Museum, and the Indiana Historical Society.

A collection of over 300 online reference books in the humanities and social sciences.

The full text of the Washington Post from 1877 - 2000, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type. Additional access options for the Washington Post.

Collection of various documents, including literature, concerning Black Power and Amiri Baraka (once known as LeRoi Jones)

Full-text works by black women writers from the U.S. (18th century - 1970s), the Caribbean and Africa (second half of the 20th century).

Articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press in America; full text and searchable in English and Spanish

FBI files documenting the scrutiny of African Americans

Recordings of American music, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings, and other important labels.

Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles Times.

Primary source documents from federal government agencies, the personal papers of African Americans, and the records of civil rights organizations.

This database provides full-page and article images with searchable full text from the Atlanta world (1931-1932) and the Atlanta daily world (1932-2003). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.

This collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history, with first-hand reports of major events and issues of the day. Includes complete text of articles published in the United States.

Documents concerning slavery and the slave trade

From and about Africa, Aluka provides a variety of scholarly materials, including archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, and photographs.

A tool produced by the Google search engine that searches the contents of books that they have scanned.

African American Periodicals, 1825-1995, features more than 170 periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other genres.

Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Chicago daily defender.

Literature from Africa and the African Diaspora.  Includes short stories and folktales, ranging thematically from oral traditions that date back many hundreds of years to contemporary tales of modern life. Features over 11,707 short stories and more than 81,955 pages.

Streaming documentaries will allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century.

The full text of the Chicago Tribune from 1849-1996 with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type. Additional access options for the Chicago Tribune are available.

Afro-Americana imprints, 1535-1922 is a searchable collection of over 12,000 works, including books, pamphlets and broadsides, and many lesser-known imprints, and presents a record of African American history, literature and culture.

Full page and article images with searchable full text from the New York Amsterdam news.

Poetry by African American poets from 1760-1900. Includes a variety of poetic styles and types including elegies, odes, ditties, hymns, and sonnets.

Access to over 100 fully searchable African newspapers published 1800-1925.

A fulltext archive of the important 19th-century American publication Harper's Weekly, with faceted search functionality.

Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Courier.

Contains approximately 1,462 plays by 233 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

The MLA Bibliography indexes material in modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.

Streaming award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States.

A database of articles from popular U.S. and Canadian periodicals on current events, news, popular culture and many other topics.

Bibliographic database focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada, indexing more than 1,800 journals published, dissertations and reviews.

Online compilation of the Gale literary criticism series.

Historic American publications, books, broadsides, ephemera, newspapers, dating from as early as 1758 through the 20th Century.

Includes articles from local, regional, national and international newspapers, magazines, online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, transcripts, and legal research, as well as federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790.

A database of historical twentieth century newspapers.

Provides fulltext coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journal articles for most academic disciplines.

The Archive contains newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from international, alternative sources that promote social change.

Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources.

The Indiana University online catalog.

A collection of historical newspapers from around the globe.

Index to bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals.

An index to articles published in more than 29,000 English language journals covering all subjects.

FBI surveillance files: African Liberation Support Committee and All African People's Revolutionary Party.

Reproductions of important documents since 1972. Includes how to cite but not how to find the primary document.

Non-fiction published works of over 1,000 African American leaders, including interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters, etc.

Index of journal articles in anthropology and related fields. The primary index for research in anthropology, it includes articles, reports, edited works, and obituaries in social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, as well as in ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture.

The online version of the classic guide to documentary style. Access is for the 16th and 17th editions.