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ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives now part of USC Libraries! This collection, the world's largest research collection for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, will continue to be accessible at its current location on W. Adams Blvd.

Selected New Acquisitions

Collections of the United Farm Workers of America (four microfilm collections) Please see links and information on the USC Primary Sources page of this guide, under Microfilm Collections
Concise Companion to American Studies This essential new resource, edited by John Carlos Rowe, is available in Doheny Library
The Civil War Collection, Accessible Archives Additions are: Part II: the Soldiers’ Perspective; Part III: the Generals’ Perspective; Part IV: a Midwestern Perspective. The Libraries had previously acquired Part I: a Newspaper Perspective.
American History in Video Provides access to commercial and governmental newsreels, archival and public affairs footage, and documentaries
Victorian Popular Culture Contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe from 1779 to 1930
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels The first-ever scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the first underground comix from the 1960’s. It also includes interviews, criticism, and journal articles
LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, 1824-2003 The Library has added Part B, 1980-2003, to its previous holdings. The collection contains the full-text of published and unpublished hearings, oral statements, committee questions and discussion, reports, and more
CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions CQ Press publications dating back to 1945, including directories, encyclopedias, handbooks, compendia, and yearbooks on topics such as California politics; US legislative and political history; US Indian policy and law; historic documents; and more
California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) This historical newspaper collection, from UC-Riverside’s Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, provides access to over 200,000 digitized pages of California newspapers spanning the years 1846-1922
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 Thisimportant portal for slavery and abolition studies brings together documents and collections from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world

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Welcome Students and Faculty!

Welcome to the African American Studies Research Guide!

Browse through the tabs to find books, articles, online resources, primary sources, professional and career resources, and more

Getting Started: Key databases to use

Black Studies Center A fully cross-searchable gateway to African American Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, key literatue indexes, historical newspaper articles (from core publications such as Chicago Defender), and bibliographical resources

America: History and Life Key database for the study of US History, featuring journal articles, dissertations, book reviews, review articles, and CLIO Notes

History Cooperative The History Cooperative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource provided by the University of Illinois Press, the Organization of American Historians, and JSTOR offering top-level online history scholarship

JSTOR Multidisciplinary database providing access to scholarly journal articles and book reviews

HOMER USC's library catalog, for books, films, journals, microfilm, and print journals

USC Quick Search New! Use one search box to search a wide range of USC's holdings, including journal articles, books, digital collections, and more

WorldCat This database contains more than 32 million records providing records from libraries worldwide concerning journals and journal articles; musical scores; magazines;newspapers; sound recordings; films; and manuscripts

Reference resources for background reading

Concise Companion to American Studies This essential new resource, edited by John Carlos Rowe, is available in Doheny Library

Blackwell Reference Online (most also available in print) This extensive multidisciplinary database includes hundreds of key reference titles, including in History, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Gender Studies, and Geography. Selected titles of interest include the following; please also consult the History, US and Canada and the American Studies and Ethnicity Guides for more selected titles:

Companion to African American History (Ed. Alton Hornsby, Jr)

A Companion to African-American Philosophy (Eds. Tommy L. Lott and John P. Pittman)

A Companion to African-American Studies (Eds. Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon)

A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies (Eds. David Theo Goldberg and John Solomos)

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Credo Reference

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