Montgomery College Libraries > Pat Semple, Librarian > HS130 History Of African Americans Since 1865, Prof. Smith

1. Books | 2. Encyclopedias | 3. Articles in Databases | 4. Websites | 5. MLA Works Cited

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Encyclopedia Of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation To the Present

(REF E185.61 .E54 1992, 1 vol.)

Encyclopedia Of African-American Culture and History

(Gale, 2006)

Encyclopedia Of African-American Heritage

Go to MC Library Catalog and use the "Title Begins With..." seach type. Copy and paste this title into the "Enter Search Terms" box and click on the Search button. Once at the record for this book, look for the hyperlink that reads "Electronic resource: Click here to view." (Facts On File, 1997)

Encyclopedia Of African American Politics

(FOLIO E185 .S58155 2003, 1 vol.)

Encyclopedia Of African-American Society

(Gale, 2005)

Encyclopedia Of African and African-American Religions

(BL2462.5 .E53 2001, 1 vol.)

Encyclopedia Of American Race Riots

(REF E184 .A1 E573 2007, 2 vol.)

Encyclopedia Of Black Studies

(2005)

Encyclopedia Of Civil Rights in America

(1998)

Encyclopedia Of the Great Black Migration

(REF E185.6 .E54 2006, 3 vol.)

Encyclopedia Of the Harlem Renaissance

(REF NX512.3 .A35 E53 2004, 2 vol.)

Encyclopedia Of the Reconstruction Era

(REF E668 .E53 2006, 2 vol.)

The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of African American Literature

(REF PS153 .N5 G73 2005, 6 vol.)

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African American Newspapers: The 19th Century

Somewhat clunky interface; will accept Boolean search expressions, but will not allow you to re-sort by relevance; results are listed by newspaper, and within that by date; can't use ENTER button as search button; must select each newspaper on opening page before conducting search.

Ethnic NewsWatch

   search on "u street" here!

Focus on covering "minority press," both ethnic and gender; see PUBLICATIONS tab for an idea of which journals, magazines, and newspapers are included.

History Resource Center: U.S.

Use Boolean Search expressions, but do take advantage of sidebar directories.

Primary Sources In African American History

Note that this database is coupled with one that covers women's issues.

Project MUSE

Excellent coverage of all the humanities.

Academic Search Premier

Covers all subject areas.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Covers all subject areas. To sort by relevance, not date, go to blue menu bar and select to "Relevance Search" before entering search expression.

Search Expressions: Here are some sample searches using keywords and Boolean operators:

Sorting Results and Printing: Results can be sorted by date or relevance. To print, use the button within the database.

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Limit Domains in Google: To limit your Google search to reputable Web sites, enter the domain you are interested in searching in front of your search terms:

site:edu     or     site:gov

    or     site:org

site:edu "african-american"

site:org NAACP

site:gov "civil rights"

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web

"Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history." (George Mason University)

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: For Teachers and Students

A spate of primary and secondary resources: modules, lists of seminars, recommended resources, exhibitions, publications. (The Gilder Lehrman Institute)

African American History

A portal to many links related to African American History. (University of Washington Libraries)

Black Studies

Lots of subject catagories containing links related to African-American history. (City College of New York)

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

Covers time periods from the transatlantic slave trade of the 1600s to the Haitian immigration of the 20th century. (New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

The Civil Rights Movement

(American Library Association: Association of College & Research Libraries)

Voices of Civil Rights: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories

(American Association of Retired People; Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Library of Congress)

The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University

(Columbia University, Center for Contemporary Black History)

Separate is not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education

(Smithsonian Institution)

AmericanSouth.org

A "comprehensive scholarly discovery service for research materials related to the cultures and histories of the American South." (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Emory University)

Center For the Study Of Southern Culture

"[Emphasizes] the interdisciplinary investigation and documentation of the South as a culturally, historically, geographically, and demographically complex region." (University of Mississippi)

Documenting the American South

"Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs." (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

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Here is a six-page MS Word document on formatting MLA citations: MLA: Works Cited Page

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