Black History Month in the Libraries: Explore

An extensive scholarly collection that focuses on the lives and events that have shaped African American and African history and culture.

Covering more than 500 years of the African-American experience, African-American History offers a fresh way to explore the full spectrum of African-American history and culture.

The African American Experience supports research and scholarship in the field of African American Studies with a library of works analyzing the contributions and challenges of African Americans throughout history, including the complete WPA Slave Narratives collection. This comprehensive database of more than 8,000 articles, biographies, primary documents, and media.

The database explores the daily lives of ordinary people through time and across the globe, providing details about family life, work, food, clothing, sports, language, literature, romance, education, gender roles, social customs, and more that cannot be found elsewhere and are an asset to student research. This database includes more than 9,000 primary and secondary sources including newspapers, magazines, narratives, and letters of correspondence and images.