Subject Guides: ENGL 7770: Black Archives: Theory and Practice: Welcome

Information about Finding Books

Auburn University Libraries uses the Library of Congress classification system. Relevant books in the RBD Library are likely to be found in the following call number ranges:
Literature-focused

PS 163-173
PS 501-689
PS 700-3576 (this area focuses on individual authors and is sub-divided by time period)

History-focused

E184.5 - 185.98

It's a good idea to use the catalog search box (see below) to search by keyword for more precise call numbers and to locate books on other, interdisciplinary topics.

Finding Books in RBD Library

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Databases: Secondary and Scholarly Sources

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, the index consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1926 to the present. Provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series, and covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR provides access to several collections of backfiles of scholarly publications covering the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. JSTOR includes the full runs of each journal, generally up to 1-7 years from the present. Note: Auburn University subscribes to the Arts & Sciences I & II Collections and the Life Sciences Collection.
Project MUSE - Standard Collection This link opens in a new window Project MUSE offers journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers and covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Databases: Primary Sources

Accessible Archives This link opens in a new window Accessible Archives is devoted to primary source material in American history. Information archived is from leading historical periodicals and books, and includes eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records. Transcribed individual entries are complete with full bibliographic citations and are organized chronologically.
African American Communities This link opens in a new window Contains pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, photographs, and oral histories focusing on African American culture, social conditions, and identity in Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina. Includes papers of Austin T. Walden, Herbert T. Jenkins, Thomas J. Pearsall, James B. McMillan, Algernon Lee Butler, and the Chicago Urban League papers, c1916-1985.
African American Newspapers, Series 1: 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window American Newspapers, Series 1, features 280 newspapers published for or by African Americans from 35 states. The collection includes many rare and historically significant 19th-century titles, including Freedom's Journal (NY)-the first African American newspaper published in the United States-The Colored Citizen (KS), Arkansas State Press, Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York Age, L'Union (LA), Northern Star and Freeman's Advocate (NY), Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, The Appeal (MN).
African American Newspapers, Series 2: 1835-1956 This link opens in a new window Features 75 newspapers published for or by African Americans from 22 states and the District of Columbia. Some key titles include Frederick Douglass's New National Era (Washington, DC), Washington Tribune (Washington, DC), Chicago Bee (Chicago, IL), The Louisianian (New Orleans, LA), The Pine and Palm (Boston, MA), National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY), New York Age (New York, NY), Harlem Liberator (New York, NY), North Carolina Republican and Civil Rights Advocate (Weldon, NC), Southern News (Richmond, VA).
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 This link opens in a new window Digital collection of more than 170 periodicals by and about African Americans published in 26 states, including academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, the bulletins of organizations, annual reports, and other genres. Includes such titles as African Repository, El Mulato, The Black Warrior, Pennsylvania Freedmen's Bulletin, Colored Harvest, Voice of the Negro, Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Blue Helmet: A Magazine for the American Negro Soldier of All Wars, Harlem Pointer, African World, Black Pride Newsletter, and Right On!
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection. This link opens in a new window A comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877. Subject coverage includes: advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts.
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) This link opens in a new window The first African American Daily in the U.S., the Atlanta Daily World offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. The Daily World covered racial discrimination in the federal government and military, school segregation, and events such as the trials of the Scottsboro Boys.
Black Authors: 1556-1922 This link opens in a new window Created from the holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Black Authors, 1556-1922, includes more than 550 works by black authors from the Americas, Europe and Africa, compiled by the curators of the Afro-Americana Imprints collection. These works include personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems and musical compositions.
Black Newspapers Collection This link opens in a new window
Chicago Defender (1910-1975) This link opens in a new window The Chicago Defender was one of the most widely read African American newspapers with more than two thirds of its readership outside of Chicago. It took on Jim Crow violence, segregation, and encouraged the Great Migration. Correspondents, columnists, and contributors included Langston Hughes, Ethel Payne, Gwendolyn Brooks, Willard Motley, and Ida B. Wells
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice This link opens in a new window This collection documents key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries, with 16 areas of focus: slavery in the early Americas; African coast; the Middle Passage; slavery and agriculture; urban and domestic slavery; slave testimony; spiritualism and religion in slave communities; resistance and revolts; the Underground Railroad; the abolition movement and the slavery debate; legislation and politics; freed slaves, freedmen and free black settlements; education; slavery and the Islamic world; varieties of slave experience; slavery today and the legacy of slavery. Also includes case studies from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new window Collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
Slavery in America and the World This link opens in a new window Brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. It includes colonial, state, and federal statutes along with pamphlets, magazine articles, and books about slavery.

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ENGL 7770: Black Archives: Theory and Practice: Welcome