LibGuides: HIST 2060: African American History: Library Resources

Finding Background Information about African American History

Credo Reference is an excellent resource that provides overviews of topics in African American History, including biographical information.

Credo Reference

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Ruth Slagle

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Subjects: Controversial Issues, Education, Health Sciences, History, Humanities & Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, Social & Behavioral Sciences

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Finding Information in the JSCC Library

JSCC Library Online Catalog
The Library Online Catalog enables you to locate books (print and electronic) and DVDs in the JSCC Library.
All Search
Use this link to search everything in the library at once.

Click here for a search of the catalog for all books dealing with the topic of African American History

Finding Journal Articles About Historical Topics

Gale OneFile: U.S. History
40 journals in American History are available in full-text in this database.

JSTOR
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization that creates and maintains an archive of important scholarly journals. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high- resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines, including ecology, economics, history, language, literature, mathematics and sociology.
Pop Culture Studies (Gale OneFile)
Gale OneFile: Popular Culture Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equality
This resource features expertly selected open primary source documents. Visitors will find 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.

Multimedia Resources

American History in Video
This series of streaming media resources provides access to many sources dealing with people, events and places in American History.
Black Studies in Video
Excellent videos dealing with all aspects of African American history.
Swank Digital Campus
Feature films chosen by faculty for use in their classes.

Research Consultations

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