Africana Studies 

Search the full-text of the following titles: The Christian Recorder; Colored American; Frederick Douglass Papers and more.

African American Song brings 50,000 tracks of music to the ears of library patrons and music scholars. It’s the first online resource to document the history of African American music in the form of an online music listening service.

A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring thousands of poems by some of the most important African American poets of the last century.

Provides open access to selected materials from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions that chronicle the history of the United States.

Contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Contains digitized Du Bois papers, books and images.

Presents 396 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics.

Highlights African American sources in the H. Furlong Baldwin Library at the Maryland Historical Society.

Full text of indexes and finding aids for a large number of microform collections of primary source material, such as National Security Council documents, and private papers of government officials.

An extensive collection of slavery and abolitionist materials gathered by Reverend Samuel Joseph May. The collection includes over 10,000 pamphlets and leaflets documenting the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels.

This is the first anthology of African American political oratory designed for the ear and the eye. It is a sampling from the great stream of words spoken by black Americans, exhorting the nation to make good on its democratic principles.

Over 1.5 million cross-searchable pages of primary sources on transatlantic slavery and other scholarly publications.

A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century.

A collection of over 1,000 books and pamphlets, most of which were collected by abolitionist writer and publisher James G. Birney (1792-1857).

A selection of primary sources from a larger collection available on microfilm (see below). Contents: The British Isles; Canada; and The United States.