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Citations to articles, book chapters, book reviews, and more. America:History & Life covers the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to present; Historical Abstracts covers world history from 1450 to the present.
Search across most EbscoHost article databases as well as the Ebsco e-book collection; interdisciplinary in scope. Note: this search excludes America: History & Life, Historical Abstracts, and L'Année philologique.
Includes:
--Academic Search Complete
--Anthropology Plus
--Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective: 1913-1983
--Art Full Text
--Art Index Retrospective
--ATLA Religion Database
--Biography Index Retrospective: 1946-1983
--Biography Reference Bank
--Book Review Digest Plus
--Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982
--Communication & Mass Media Complete
--EconLit
--Essay and General Literature Retrospective
--Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983
--Film & Television Literature Index
--GreenFILE
--Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984
--Index Islamicus
--Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text
--Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
--Music Index Full Text
--Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981
--International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
--MLA International Bibliography
--eBook Collection
--OmniFile Full Text Mega
--PsycARTICLES
--PsycINFO
--Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
--RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
--Short Story Index Retrospective: 1915-1983
Multidisciplinary collection of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, e-books, dissertations, and more. Search includes all of the Davidson College Library ProQuest databases.
Gain access to rare primary source documents with these topically focused digital collections. Supports academic research.
Black Culture Collection [microfilm]
Thousands of books, pamphlets, speeches, and more from the Slaughter Collection in the Trevor-Arnett Library at Atlanta University. The library has:
The black experience in South America and the West Indies (reels 600-633)
Includes works on slavery in South America and the West Indies.
Slavery in history (reels 634-652)
Includes slave records, memoirs, British House of Commons evidence for the abolition of slavery, and information on slavery in Britain and France.
Main Library Microform Cabinet C-7 (see the Library Catalog)
WHERE TO FIND: Main Library Reference Stacks R 016.972 A881b
The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases provide information about vessels, routes, and the people associated with them.
The National Endowment for the Humanities was the principal sponsor of this work carried out at Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. The Hutchins Center of Harvard University has also provided support.
Explore African Heritage site objects including scholarly research, books, historical and recent documents, maps, site plans or diagrams, and photographs and slides.
(late 18th - early 19th centuries) Primary and secondary sources related to slavery in the Francophone world; special focus on women writers in France. Also includes links to other Web sites. Created by Doris Y. Kadish at the University of Georgia.
(15th century - 1945) Over 900 books, 80 maps, 6,500 photographs, and 30 journals covering the history of Africa and the relationship between Africans and Europeans, including the slave trade, and colonization; includes works by explorers, anthropologists, soldiers and sailors, colonial administrators, missionaries, and others. Most works are in French. Part of Gallica, from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Contains significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in research libraries in the United Kingdom.
Organized in 9 collections: Cowen Tracts, Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection, Hume Tracts, Knowsley Pamphlet Collection, Manchester Selected Pamphlets, Selections from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Selections from the University of Bristol, and the Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection.
Search across all Gale primary source collections.
Includes:
• 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
• 19th Century UK Periodicals
• American Fiction, 1774-1920
• Archives Unbound
• Archives of Sexuality & Gender
• Associated Press Collections Online
• Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture
• British Library Newspapers
• China from Empire to Republic
• Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture 1790-1920
• Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
• Indigenous Peoples: North America
• Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online
• Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
• Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957
• Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992
• Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
• Smithsonian Collections Online
• The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2012
• The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010
• The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
• The Independent Digital Archive, 1986-2012
• The Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991
• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources
• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926
• The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
• The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources
• The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926
• The Making of the Modern World
• The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006
• The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000
• The Times Digital Archive, 1822-2021
• Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2019
• U.S. Declassified Documents Online
Primary sources: United States & British North America
Thousands of primary sources, including books, pamphlets, articles, and illustrations related to the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade; also includes secondary sources and maps. From the he Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
A rich collection of primary sources related to U.S. history and culture; materials are drawn from the Library of Congress and other research libraries.
This collection is public domain and are not protected by copyright.
Full text of over 2,000 slave narratives; some have audio recordings. The oral histories were collected between 1936 and 1938 as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Progress Administration (WPA).
This collection contains the full text of The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, edited by George P. Rawick (1972), along with the 1997 index by Howard E. Potts.
Historical collections that contain books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over centuries.
Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865 [microfilm]
Over 15,000 articles, essays, letters, lectures, manuscripts, sermons, speeches, and literary works from nearly 300 black abolitionists in the U.S., Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, and Germany. Topics covered include Northern / Southern separation within the church, colonization and emigration, political action, church support of black educational institutions, and African American intellectual and social life.
WHERE TO FIND: Main Library Microform Cabinet C-7
A growing collection of online resources associated with race and slavery in the American South. Includes: The Race and Slavery Petitions Project, North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project, and records from the Buncombe County Register of Deeds office. From the University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
A collection of primary sources on Southern history, culture, and literature from the colonial period through the early twentieth century. Includes diaries, first-person narratives, literary works, photographs, and other materials.
Over 200 anti-slavery documents including speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles. From the Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University.
Papers of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society: 1775-1975 [microfilm]
Contains the official records and papers of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS), established Philadelphia Quakers in 1775, and fifteen related organizations; includes minutes, correspondence, financial papers, manumissions, indentures, legal papers, and other documents. Topics covered include anti-slavery legislation, the foreign slave trade, fugitive slaves, censuses of free black communities, and the Underground Railroad. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has posted some documents online.
WHERE TO FIND: Main Library Microform Cabinet C-28
Guide: Reference Stacks R326 B941g
Slavery and Anti-Slavery Pamphlets from the Libraries of Salmon P. Chase and John P. Hale [microfilm]
(1840-1859) 166 pamphlets, speeches, reports, legal opinions, and convention proceedings on historical, legal, social, and religious issues related to slavery. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873) and Senator John P. Hale (1806-1873) were active in the abolitionist movement.
Reel 1: Chase pamphlets: author index to Chase collection; vols. 1 & 2
Reel 2: Chase pamphlets: vols. 3 & 4
Reel 3: Chase pamphlets: vol. 5
Reel 4: Hale pamphlets: author index to Hale collection; vols. 1 & 2
Reel 5: Hale pamphlets: vols. 3 and 4
WHERE TO FIND: Main Library Microform Cabinet C-32
Covers business records (ledgers, accounting books, receipts, and work rules) and personal papers (diaries, correspondences, and wills) from plantations in the American South.
Part of ProQuest History Vault.
Primary sources: United States statistical & Census data
Discover biographies of significant, influential or notorious figures from American history written by prominent scholars.
The bibliographies are great tools for finding primary and secondary sources; they contain information about published and unpublished primary sources and evaluative comment on notable secondary sources.
