African American Literature: Primary Sources
Primary Sources
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine This link opens in a new windowPrimary source materials from the long nineteenth century revealing the rapid acceleration of scientific, technical, and medical knowledge and covering every aspect of science. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century This link opens in a new windowComplete text of seven 19th century African-American newspapers. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new windowA vast collection of American historical periodicals, 17th-20th century. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Library of Congress Digital Collections This link opens in a new windowPrimary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. More InfoFull-Text PUBLIC
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American National Biography This link opens in a new windowOffers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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American Periodicals Series (APS) Online This link opens in a new windowAmerican Periodical Series 1741-1900. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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American Slave: A Composite Autobiography This link opens in a new windowSlave narratives More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Archives of Sexuality & Gender, Parts 1-2: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 This link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents on important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new windowDigitized images of America's historical newspapers. More InfoFull-Text PUBLIC
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Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective This link opens in a new windowContains the full text of major articles. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Dissertations & Theses This link opens in a new windowsee ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text. More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
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Early American Imprints I This link opens in a new windowDefinitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Early Encounters in North America This link opens in a new windowLetters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters between Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and Americans. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowA digital repository of online books and other scholarly materials. More InfoPartial Full-Text PUBLIC
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Making of America This link opens in a new windowDigital library of primary sources in American social history. More InfoFull-Text PUBLIC
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Readers Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982 This link opens in a new windowDetailed account of U.S. culture and history through the lens of middle America. More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery, Parts 1-4 This link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents on all aspects of the phenomenon of slavery and its abolition in the US, Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Women’s Studies Archive: Issues and Identities This link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents from the 19th and 20th centuries covering the social, political, and professional aspects of women’s lives and spanning multiple regions. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 This link opens in a new windowCollection of 19th century American fiction. More InfoPUBLIC
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Library of Congress: Chronicling AmericaChronicling America - Provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
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Archive Finder This link opens in a new windowRepositories located in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland. More InfoUB ONLY
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Chicago Defender (1910-1975) This link opens in a new windowHistorical local, regional and national news. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Contemporary Authors (Gale Literature) This link opens in a new windowBiographical sketches. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale Literature Criticism) This link opens in a new windowCovers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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New York Times (1851-2023) with Index (1851-1993) This link opens in a new windowHistorical local, regional, national and international news. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection This link opens in a new windowAn ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
