- Provides full images from 1851 to three years ago.
- If necessary, use the date selection options below the search box.
- Warning: dates aren't included on printed articles. Write down the article's date on each print-out.
- Provides the full text of the newspaper from 1877-1988.
- Use Washington Post for full text of the newspaper from 1987 to the present.
- Provides the full text of newspaper from 1785-1985.
- Use LexisNexis Academic for articles from July 1985-present.
- Full text of 300 ethnic and minority newspapers, newsletters and periodicals, 1960 - present.
- More info on Ethnic NewsWatch
Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective
Readers' Guide Retrospective
- Indexes the core scholarly, English-language journals published between 1907 and 1984.
- More info on Humanities and Social Science Retrospective
- Indexes over 500 magazines 1890 - 1982
- More info on Readers' Guide Retrospective
Note: the above two databases may be searched together. Just enter one and check off the boxes for both.
Library Catalog
Catalog of materials in The University Libraries.
Dictionary of American History. 10 vols. 2004
location ref E174 .D52
e-bookGale Encyclopedia of US Economic History. 2 vols. 1999
location: ref HC102 .G35
e-bookEncyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. 6 vols. 2006.
location: ref E185 .E54
e-bookAfrican-American Almanac. 1999
location: ref E185 .N385
e-bookThe Encyclopedia of American Political History. 2001
location: ref E183 .E48Encyclopedia of American Social History. 3 vols. 1993.
location: ref HN57 .E58Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. 4 vols. 1999
location: ref E740.7 .E53Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights : from emancipation to the present. 1992
location: ref E185.61 .E54
Notable Black American Women. 1992 + suppl.
location: ref E185.96 .N68 1992Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Notable Black American Men. 1999
location: ref E185.86 .N68
Turabian
Print Resources Online Resources
Primary Sources in African American History (Manuscripts and Speeches)“Browse by Document Type” [many documents are culled from microfilm collections and other sources – check our library holdings for these same microfilm collections for more materials]. “Manuscripts” and “Speeches” are most relevant. Black power, FBI surveillance of Martin Luther King and local movements, New Deal records, NAACP speech files from their conventions.
“Guides to Microforms” Some of the microfilm collections are on line here. But they are easier to use in the library. See this for microfilms you might want to order through Interlibrary Loan.Congressional/Government Information
Historical Census Browser - UVA
Includes data 1790 - 1960
Selected Historical Decennial Census 1790-2000
The richest sources are in published Congressional hearings since 1963.
Use “Historical Indexes.” Search by subject or witness. (i.e. “riots”) (Martin Luther King).
These materials are held in the Government Documents area on the second floor.
Public Opinion Data
Lexis-Nexis AcademicClick on "Reference" on the left side of the page. Then click on "Polls and Surveys."History Microform Collections
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University [Cited in Syllabus as MLKPP]
Under “Published Documents”: King “Speeches” and “Sermons” published recently by Time Warner. These are actual transcripts with notes of audience response. Under “About King,” see especially “Encyclopedia,” compiled by the staff of the Project, “Biography,” and “Chronology,” very detailed with hypertext links to various biographical and other web sites.
Civil Rights Movement Veterans
”A non-commercial website created by civil rights workers who were active in the Southern Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. We provide movement history and background, a speakers list and veteran contact information, personal stories, narratives and interviews, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), and an extensive movement-related bibliography and list of web links.”
Veterans Roll Call: 272 brief self-portraits, many with links or longer narratives.Greensboro News and Record and the Greensboro Public Library.
Audio interviews by Jim Schlosser and the Library staff. Click “multimedia”
“Media/Headlines” consist mostly of News and Record Articles commemorating the sit-ins.The Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, 1968
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Memphis: We Remember. http://www.afscme.org/about/memphist.htm. Links to oral history, retrospective accounts from the AFSCME newspaper and several scholarly articles and photographs.
Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964, Edited and Introduced by Kathy Emery, Sylvia Braselmann, and Linda Gold.
Mississippi Humanities Council
Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography, University of Southern Mississippi Transcripts.
John F. Kennedy Library; Lyndon Baines Johnson Library;
Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon White House Tapes at the Miller Center for Public Affairs, UVA.
http://library.uncg.edu/depts/ref/bibs/his/his340_us_since_1945.asp
