A-Z Databases

Provides access to more than 2.4 million high-quality images for teaching and research in a wide variety of disciplines, all rights-cleared for educational use.

Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.

Provides access to more than 2.4 million high-quality images for teaching and research in a wide variety of disciplines, all rights-cleared for educational use.

A website focused on Black Freedom, featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.

A collection of news sources from the early 1700s to the present. Articles are organized by topic to reflect significant people, places, and events in African American history. A great choice for primary source research!

The world’s largest collection of open access research papers.

National Library of Medicine (NLM) database of links to disaster medicine and public health resources available on the internet at no cost.

Statistics on food and agriculture worldwide by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

Unique collections of documentary materials on U.S. foreign policy issues collected and indexed by journalists and scholars at George Washington University to check rising government secrecy.

Popular fiction and nonfiction titles; includes ebooks and audiobooks.

Full text scripts of American plays from 1714–1915 and English plays from the late 13th to early 20th centuries.

Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.

Collection of alternative press newspapers and magazines produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.