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  • AFI Catalog

    The AFI Catalog is the premier, authoritative resource of American film information for the years 1893-current. Produced in collaboration with the American Film Institute (AFI), it is compiled and updated by the AFI film experts.

  • Africa and the New Imperialism

    Africa and the New Imperialism documents the period of rapid colonial expansion by European powers across the African continent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. From the accounts of missionaries and European explorers navigating the interior of the continent in the early nineteenth century; to the rise in European desire for increased power, empire and wealth culminating in the Berlin Conference 1885-1886; to the subsequent power struggles, negotiations and conflicts that raged across the continent at the turn of the twentieth century, the documents within Africa and the New Imperialism charts Africa’s encounters with European imperialist regimes and their impact on the lives of peoples across the continent.

  • Africa Bibliography

    The Africa Bibliography is an authoritative guide to works in African studies published under the auspices of the International African Institute annually since 1984. This, the online consolidated version, brings together every record collected since the bibliography's foundation, for all scholars interested in the study of Africa.

  • Africa Commons: African History and Culture

    Africa Commons: History and Culture is a comprehensive database for searching and discovering African materials from 1500 to today. It indexes African organizations, collections, and documents from archives around the world. Find books, magazines, newspapers, historical journals, government documents, oral history, photographs, art, music, videos, and more.

  • Africa Confidential

    Africa Confidential is one of the longest-established specialist publications on Africa, with a considerable reputation for being first with in-depth news and analysis on significant political, economic and security developments across the continent.

  • Africa Development Indicators

    ADI is the most detailed collection of data on Africa, containing over 1,600 indicators, covering 53 African countries and spanning the period from 1961 to current. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.

  • Africa-Wide Information

    Africa-Wide: NiPAD, produced by NISC South Africa, combines databases to form a multidisciplinary aggregation offering unique and extensive coverage of all facets of Africa and African studies. Included in this aggregation are 40 bibliographic databases from around the world, including Index to South African Periodicals, IBISCUS, the Africa Institute Database, African Journal Online, Media Africa, and NAMLIT, which is compiled from the National Library of Namibia. With over 2.4 million citations and abstracts dating back to the 16th century, this resource is essential for those with an interest in African research, and information on and about Africa.

  • African American Communities

    Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, 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.

  • African American Newspapers

    Search the full-text of the following titles: The Christian Recorder, Toronto, ON, 1861-April 1882. Colored American, New York, 1837-Mar. 1841. Frederick Douglass Papers (continuation of The North Star), 1851-1856. Freedom

  • African American Newspapers, 1827-1998

    Explore African American history, culture and daily life in the 19th and 20th centuries through newspaper articles. This is a sub-set collection within the America's Historical Newspapers database.

  • African American Poetry

    The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince's 'Bars Fight', c.1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century, including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

  • African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest, 1883-1922

    In an 1883 decision known as the “The Civil Rights Cases” the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and declared the federal government could not prevent discrimination on the basis of race. This ruling paved the way for the codification of Jim Crow laws which would provide a legal framework to reverse the hard-earned gains African- Americans had made during Reconstruction. This collection covers many topical categories such as the growing body of work by African- American writers; the portrayal of African-Americans in art and literature; religion; race; early histories of slavery; the Civil War; Reconstruction; and others.

  • African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle, 1865-1883

    Spanning eighteen of the most formative years in African-American history, Reconstruction marked an end to slavery and a beginning to the enfranchisement of African Americans. Full citizenship, voting rights, land ownership, employment opportunities, and political participation were only some of the significant gains enjoyed, in theory, by African Americans during this period. Although these rights were granted by amendments to the U.S. Constitution and federal legislation they were not, in practice, universally protected at local levels. This collection covers many topical categories such as Reconstruction by state; works by African- American writers on race, slavery, and civil rights; the portrayal of African Americans in the Arts; early histories of the Civil War and slavery; and others.

  • African Diaspora, 1860-Present

    African Diaspora, 1860-Present allows scholars to discover the migrations, communities, and ideologies of the African Diaspora through the voices of people of African descent. With a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France, the collection includes never-before digitized primary source documents, including personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera.

  • African History and Culture, 1540-1921

    Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP). Covers the history of Africa and its diverse people over nearly 400 years and includes more than 1,300 books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.

  • African Newspapers, 1800-1927

    More than 40 nineteenth- and twentieth-century African newspapers. Featuring titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Subscription access to Series I and II. Use the "Change Databases" selection to access either series.

  • African Studies Collection

    A project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to digitize materials about Africa that were published in limited, sometimes very limited, quantities, but which have produced a demand beyond the capacity of their initial print run to satisfy. Selected by librarians, scholars, and other subject specialists along a wide range of criteria, this collection includes published materials as well as archival documents. The items were digitized from a variety of formats including books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps, and other resources.

  • African Writers Series

    For over 40 years, Heinemann's African Writers Series published the key texts of modern African literature. It has a unique importance in the history of postcolonial writing. This online edition includes over 250 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Nelson Mandela, Dambudzo Marechera, Christopher Okigbo, Okot p'Bitek and Tayeb Salih

  • African-American Almanac

    The African American Almanac provides historical and current information on African American history, society, and culture in 28 topical chapters (e.g., African American Firsts, Politics, Family & Health). It also includes a chronology, a chapter of important primary documents, directories of organizations and businesses, a bibliography of recently-published works, annotated lists of crucial court cases, a filmography, hundreds of brief biographies, and more than 650 photographs, illustrations, maps, and statistical charts located within the most appropriate text.

  • Afro Newspaper Morgue Collections

    Founded in 1892 by John H. Murphy Sr., the Afro, as it is most commonly called, began publication with the specific mission of documenting the news in the black community of Baltimore City, Maryland. Over the course of its long history, the Afro compiled numerous primary document sources which were held in the newspaper's "morgue" files. These files are presently held in the Afro-American Newspapers Archives and Research Center. In 2006, with funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Afro-American Newspapers partnered with the Johns Hopkins University, to catalog and improve accessibility to stacks of AANARC within the online environment.