LibGuides: AMH 2092: African American History and Culture: Library Resources

Black History 1619-2019 by Sandra K. Yocum; Frances P. Rice
Call Number: E184.6 .Y63 2021
ISBN: 9781557789440
Publication Date: 2021-01-15
African Founders by David Hackett Fischer
Call Number: E185 .F485 2022
ISBN: 9781982145118
Publication Date: 2022-05-31

Suggested Search Terms

Here are some example keywords or phrases that can be used to find specific information in the library catalog and academic databases:

African American history
Trans-Atlantic slave trade
African American culture

Suggested Boolean Searches

Refine searches using operators like "AND," "OR," and "NOT," ensuring more precise and relevant results.

slavery AND reconstruction
slavery OR American revolution
slavery NOT civil war

Suggested Subject Headings

Standardized terms are used to categorize and organize content within the library catalog and academic databases to enhance search precision and efficiency.

African Americans -- History
Enslaved persons -- United States -- History
Slavery -- United States -- History

Suggested Call Number Ranges

Locate materials within the library in these call number areas.

E185
E441 - E453

History Databases

African American Experience This link opens in a new window
(Bloomsbury) - The widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life ever assembled, The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field.
Funded by College (FLVC Group License)
African American History This link opens in a new window
(Infobase Publishing) - Exploring more than 500 years of the African-American experience, history, and culture.
Funded by College (FLVC Group License)
American History This link opens in a new window
(Bloomsbury) - This resource-rich reference and curriculum solution helps students understand the issues, perspectives, and history that have shaped our nation.
Funded by College (FLVC Group License)
Gale OneFile: U.S. History This link opens in a new window
Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. Best for novice historians and academic researchers. Updated daily.
Funded by State Library of Florida (FEL)
History in Dispute This link opens in a new window
History in Dispute addresses heavily debated questions by offering users different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe.
Funded by State Library of Florida (FEL)
World History (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
(Gale) - Provides balanced coverage of events in world history with relevant articles updated daily - both current thinking and established scholarly work
Funded by State Library of Florida (FEL)

General Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
(EBSCO) - Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Funded by Statewide Allocation
JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection This link opens in a new window
(JSTOR) - Access to back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Over 700 titles available.
Funded by Statewide Allocation
Credo Reference Academic Core This link opens in a new window
(Credo Reference) - Students looking up current events and controversial topics benefit from the Real-time Reference featured search category, which provides frequently-updated, credible background information on issues unfolding in the headlines. With more than 700 searchable, full-text titles from 100+ publishers, Credo covers every major subject.
Funded by College (FLVC Group License)

Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman
Call Number: DT510.2 .H375 2007
ISBN: 9780374270827
Publication Date: 2007-01-09
Unsung by Michelle D. Commander (Editor, Introduction by); Kevin Young (Foreword by, Series edited by); Schomburg Center (Editor)
Call Number: E444
ISBN: 9780143136088
Publication Date: 2021-02-16

African American History by Joanne Turner-Sadler
Call Number: E185 .T89 2020
ISBN: 9781433174773
Publication Date: 2021-07-06
A World Transformed by James Walvin
Call Number: HT1048 .W35 2022
ISBN: 9780520386242
Publication Date: 2022-05-17
United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present by Toyin Falola; Raphael Chijioke Njoku
ISBN: 9780300234831
Publication Date: 2020-09-01

Africa (Credo Reference)
Learn about the origins of Africa and related concepts using this link.

Recurrent Genocidal Nightmares : The Hidden Side of Euro-African Encounters, 1450-1950 by Tatah Mentan
ISBN: 9956550574
Publication Date: 2019

Africa in the Colonial Ages of Empire by Tatah Mentan
ISBN: 9789956764099
Publication Date: 2017
The Great Stain by Noel Rae
Call Number: E441 .R278 2018
ISBN: 9781468315134
Publication Date: 2018-02-20
Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents by Herbert C. Covey (Editor); Dwight Eisnach (Editor)
Call Number: E185.86 .D34 2021
ISBN: 9781440866654
Publication Date: 2020-11-24

Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley During the Civil War Era by Jonathan Noyalas
ISBN: 9780813066868
Publication Date: 2021-04-20
I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife by Rita Roberts
Call Number: E540.B53 R63 2022
ISBN: 9781797216379
Publication Date: 2022-10-18

Juneteenth by Edward T. Cotham; Edward T. Cotham
Call Number: E185.93.T4 C68 2021
ISBN: 9781649670007
Publication Date: 2021-05-25

Emancipation Proclamation Exposed

Learn more about the origins of the Emancipation Proclamation in this video!

Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates; Henry Louis Gates
Call Number: E185.61 .G253 2019
ISBN: 9780525559535
Publication Date: 2019-04-02

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

Experience the aftermath of the Civil War—a bewildering, exhilarating, and terrifying time. African-Americans who had played a crucial role in the war now grappled with the terms and implications of Reconstruction and their hard-won freedom.