Black History in the Borderlands

Search or browse over 160 books on all aspects of African American music.

Find fully digitized African American newspapers from more than 35 states.

Find plays by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries from 1850-present.

Series 3 includes coverage of the African American experience from 1976 to today, sourced from American and global newspapers, including African American newspapers.

Full text African and African-Diaspora short stories, folktales, and selected literary magazines.

Find full text articles from major black newspapers, scholarly essays, and literary works, from the early 1800s onward. Includes Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, and Chicago Defender from 1910 to 1975.

Find acclaimed documentaries, archival footage, and interviews chronicling the evolution of black culture in the United States.

Find full text of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, interviews, journal articles, and other material of 20th century topics, including politics, religion, history, and sports.

Find fiction, poetry, and other works by women from Africa and the African Diaspora.

Online content of the Chicago Defender which became the most influential black newspaper in the US within its first 10 years begins in 1909 and goes through 2010. Includes full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue of this newspaper.

From St. Augustine and early Ethiopian philosophers to the anticolonialist movements of Pan Africanism and Negritude, The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought offers a comprehensive view of African thought, covering the intellectual tradition on the continent and throughout the diaspora. All major trends in African philosophy, political theory, and religion will be covered, as well as significant historical figures and social movements. The encyclopedia is a nice complement to our other well-regarded reference works in African and African American history and culture. It provides background into the intellectual traditions that have shaped this history and culture.

Explore the experience of peoples of African descent throughout the Americas via in-depth essays accompanied by detailed timelines, research articles, images, and film clips.

Find citations to articles from alternative, radical, and left publications, 1991-present, covering racial and gender issues, gay and lesbian studies, labor, and more.

Find fully digitized early American newspapers, covering 1690-1922; historical newspapers from Arizona and New Mexico; Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980; African American Newspapers, 1827-1998; and three newspapers from the 20th Century American Newspapers series: The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), 1923-1988; The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), 1923-1991; and The Oregonian, 1923-1987

The collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, exploring topics of cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.

Find articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority, and native presses.

Find video documentaries about race and gender studies, human rights, multiculturalism, global studies, environment, bioethics, health, political science, psychology, arts, and more. Click "more" for performance rights.

Access scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.

Find journal articles, books and book chapters, and conference papers about gender & women's studies, LGBT and sexual diversity issues, from 1972-present.

Find journal articles, books, and alternative and independent magazines in gender and women's studies, as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender research.

Watch documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and feature films related to LGBT topics.

Find plays, playbills, production photos, and other materials related to women playwrights, from colonial era to present day.

Find scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.

Find handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.

Find local, regional, and national newspapers published by Klan organizations and by sympathetic publishers from across the U.S. It also includes key anti-Klan voices from newspapers published by ethnic, Catholic, and Jewish organizations.

Find the foremost titles in this subject area, serving as canonical records of evolving assumptions about gender roles and cultural mores. Subjects covered include parenting, education, health, psychology, family life, home economics, careers, fashion, and culture.

Find texts by women activists, 1840-present.

Find primary and secondary materials about the history of women in social movements.

Find texts by women writers, 1400-1850.