Africana Studies

Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 1817-1980.

Women and Social Movements provides access to primary resources around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.

more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection, which includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, features many rare 19th-century titles. Part of the America’s Historical Newspapers collection, African American Newspapers was created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the world.

Nineteenth and early twentieth century African newspapers.

Spanning the Early Republic’s Open Door Era to the Era of Liberalization in the mid-1960s, Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection covers two centuries of immigrant life in the United States

Current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.

Combined search of The Baltimore Afro-American‎ (1893 - 2010), the Chicago Defender‎ (1909 - 2010), the New York Amsterdam News‎ (1922 - 2010), and the Pittsburgh Courier‎ (1911 - 2010).

Searches across all of the library's ProQuest news databases, including U.S. and international, current and historical news sources.