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  • Circulation and Reserves, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Library: Marianna Brough
  • Location: Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, A113
  • Phone: (812) 855-3237
Additional Contacts
  
    • Subject Librarian: DeLoice Holliday
    • Location: Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, A113 IUB
    • Phone: (812) 855-4369
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African American and African Diaspora Studies

The study of the experience of African Americans in the United States, including history and culture. Further, African American and African Diaspora Studies is a broad interdisciplinary field related to the humanities and the social sciences and to the African Diaspora worldwide.



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19th Century Historical United States Newspapers - about - A digital archive of American historical newspapers from the 19th century, including over 1.5 million full-text pages, many complete with images.
  • Coverage: 19th century
  • Alternate Title: Nineteenth Century Historical United States Newspapers

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2610768

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- about - Provides fulltext coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journals for almost every academic discipline.
  • Coverage: Varies by title

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=4

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African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century - about - Database contains the complete text of articles from some of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.
  • Coverage: selected 19th century

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=59550

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African-American Poetry - about - Includes poetry by both well-known and lesser-known African-American poets from 1760-1900.
  • Coverage: 1760-1900

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=11

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Alexander Street Literature - about - Searchable collection of creative writing of race, place, and gender.
  • Alternate Title: World Literature Online

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3824631

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AltPressIndex - about - Contains articles covering cultural, economic, political and social change. International in scope; over 300 alternative publications are represented.
  • Coverage: 1991- present.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3240510

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AltPressIndexArchive - about - This database is a guide to alternative sources of information; international and interdisciplinary in scope.
  • Coverage: 1969- 1990.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3240511

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Aluka Digital Library - about - A variety of scholarly materials, including archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, and photographs.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3677489

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- about - Covers the history of the United States and Canada from pre-history to the present, indexing more than 2000 journals published worldwide, dissertations and reviews.
  • Coverage: 1964-present

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=14

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- about - More than 40 primary source collections of 19th and 20th American Social History from leading research libraries, including digitized photographs, maps, sheet music, documents.
  • Coverage: 1800 - present
  • Alternate Title: DLF Aquifer American Social History Online

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=4051167

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Atlanta Daily World (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) - about - Full-page digital archive of the Atlanta Daily World.
  • Coverage: 1931-
  • Alternate Title: Historical Atlanta Daily World

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=5540935

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Black Drama - about - When complete, will contain texts of 1,200 plays (many rare or out of print) written by over 100 playwrights from African diaspora countries.
  • Coverage: 1846 - present

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=59554

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Black Short Fiction - about - Works by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora compiled from literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors, some previously unpublished.
  • Coverage: varies

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1494404

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Black Thought and Culture - about - Non-fiction published works of African American leaders, including interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters, etc.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=586898

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Black Women Writers - about - Full-text works by black women writers from the U.S. (18th century - 1970s), the Caribbean and Africa (second half of the 20th century).
  • Coverage: 1700s-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2328558

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- about - A collection of over 300 E-reference books in the humanities and social sciences.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2856032

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Chicago Defender (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) - about - Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Chicago daily defender.
  • Coverage: 1905-
  • Alternate Title: Historical Chicago Defender

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=5540932

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Chicago Manual of Style Online - about - The electronic version of the classic guide to documentary style.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2384486

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Chicago Tribune (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) - about - The full text of the Chicago Tribune with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type.
  • Coverage: 1849-1985
  • Alternate Title: Historical Chicago Tribune

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1577184

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DRAM - about - Recordings of American music, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings, and other important labels.
  • Alternate Title: Database of Recorded American Music

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=4203151

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- about - Articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press in America on news, culture and history. searchable in English and Spanish
  • Coverage: 1960-present

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=93

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- about - A tool produced by the Google search engine that searches the contents of books that they have scanned.
  • Coverage: Varies

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2918985

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- about - Reproductions of important documents since 1972. Includes how to cite but not how to find the primary document.
  • Coverage: 1972 to date

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1954622

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IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana - about - Sheet music from the Indiana University Lilly Library, the Indiana State Library, the Indiana State Museum, and the Indiana Historical Society.
  • Alternate Title: IN Harmony

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=5619816

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IngentaConnect - about - An index to articles published in more than 29,000 English language journals covering all subjects.
  • Coverage: 1988 to present (varies)

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=126

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Instructional Support Services (ISS) Catalog - about - Established prior to World War II, supports the curriculum and contains approximately 8,074 educational videos, some DVDS, and well over 27,000 archival 16mm film titles.
  • Coverage: WWII-2006

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3175126

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International Index to Black Periodicals - about - Index to bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters and full-text coverage of 24 core Black Studies periodicals.
  • Coverage: Mixed -- see content notes below

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=131

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- about - The Indiana University online catalog.
  • Coverage: Varies

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=38591

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- about - Organized into 5 categories, LexisNexis includes articles from international newspapers, magazines, transcripts, legal research and medical journals.
  • Coverage: varies

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=145

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Literature Criticism Online - about - Online compilation of Gale literary criticism series.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3457829

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Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) - about - The full text of the Los Angeles Times, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type.
  • Coverage: 1881-1985
  • Alternate Title: Historical Los Angeles Times

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1051792

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- about - Indexes material in modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
  • Coverage: 1963-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=159

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New York Amsterdam News (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) - about - Full page and article images with searchable full text from the New York Amsterdam news.
  • Coverage: 1922-
  • Alternate Title: Historical New York Amsterdam News

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=5540933

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Oxford Journals Online Archives - Humanities - about - Backfiles of Oxford University Press humanties journals.
  • Coverage: Varies; first journal issue to the present

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2918978

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Pittsburgh Courier (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) - about - Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Courier.
  • Coverage: 1911-
  • Alternate Title: Historical Pittsburgh Courier

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=5540934

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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - about - Comprehensive source for information on doctoral dissertations from universities in the United States and Canada. It also indexes a small number of master's theses.
  • Coverage: Citations only from 1861- present; from 1980 to present, 350-word abstracts are included on dissertations; from 1988 to present, 150-word abstracts are included on Master's theses; full text is available from 1997 to the present.
  • Alternate Title: Dissertations and Theses

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=73

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ProQuest Historical Newspapers - about - A database of historical newspapers from the United States.
  • Coverage: Varies by title

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=7328040

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Readers Guide Full Text - about - A database of articles from popular U.S. and Canadian periodicals on current events, news, popular culture and many other topics.
  • Coverage: Index and abstracts from 1983 to present; full text from 1994 to present.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=6572988

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Washington Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) - about - The full text of the Washington Post, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type.
  • Coverage: 1877-1990
  • Coverage: 3/1/2001 - Present
  • ISSN: 0148-2076
  • Collection: Ingenta Online Journals
  • Alternate Title: Historical Washington Post

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1013726

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World Newspaper Archive - about - A collection of historical newspapers from around the globe.
  • Coverage: 19th century through the 1990's.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=7799346