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Databases
Publication coverage: Pre-1925
Combines various general, scientific, religious, psychological, and legal indexes covering the nineteenth century.ABELL: Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Publication coverage: 1920 - present
Part of the Literature Online database, ABELL indexes monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, doctoral dissertations, book reviews and collections of essays concerning English language, literature, bibliography and traditional culture published worldwide from 1920 onwards.
A comprehensive survey of nearly 3,000 poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Full text of more than 1,500 works by American dramatists from the early 18th century up to the beginning of the 20th century.
Includes over 19,000 biographies of significant and influential figures who lived in the U.S. from the Colonlal Period to the present.
Full text of over 40,000 poems by American poets from the Colonial Period to the early 20th century.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Publication coverage: 1975 - present
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.Publication coverage: mid-1800s - present
Black Drama, Third Edition contains the full text of more than 1.700 plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. The collection includes musical comedies, domestic dramas, folk dramas, history plays, anti-slavery plays, one-act plays, and other works.
Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books and much more.
British Periodicals provides searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th.