* American Studies & Ethnicity 

Selected New Acquisitions

• African American Newspapers, 1827-1998  This Readex database provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers, from more than 35 states, chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience
• American Civil War Research Database The definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War
• Images of the American Civil War Provides over 1400 images, including photographs, posters, and ephemera from the fields of battle, politics, and general society
• ProQuest Civil War Era  Provides access to the full run of eight newspapers from 1840-1865 and nearly 2000 pamphlets from the Slavery and Anti-Slavery Pamphlets and Civil War Pamphlets collections

Reparations Chronicles
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Welcome to the American Studies and Ethnicity Subject 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

America: History and Life journal articles, dissertations, book reviews, review articles, and overviews/chronologies

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 journal articles and book reviews

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

Reference resources for background reading

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Credo Reference

Here are some selected research guides also of interest to researchers in US and Canadian History:

African American Studies

Asian American Studies

Chicano and Latino Studies

History (Historiography)

History, British

History, US &  Canada

Los Angeles and Southern California

Native American Studies

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