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Recommended Reading
Reference Books
Databases & Articles
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Subject Librarian
Philip Abela
[Ida B. Wells, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right], Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c07756
Read more about Ida B. Wells in The Oxford Companion to United States History.
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Recommended Reading 
Books in the Short Loan Collection and electronic readings for this course are available by searching Readings & Exams.
Reference Books
Reference books are an excellent place to start your research. You should then go on to read more in-depth journal articles and books.
- Boyer, Paul S., ed., The Oxford Companion to United States History, Oxford, 2001.
- Lowery, Charles D., and John F. Marszalek, eds, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Twenty-first Century, 2nd ed., Westport, Conn., 2003. Library copies
- Ness, Immanuel, Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, Armonk, N.Y., 2004. Library copies
- Salzman, Jack, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, New York, 1996. Library copies
Databases & Articles
To find more information on a topic, a good place to start is a database that indexes the contents of journals and books.
- America: History & Life
This is an indexing database with abstracts of articles, but not always the full text.
- JSTOR
This is a full-text database. The complete articles are available online. JSTOR is an archival database; it has every issue of a journal going back to the very first issue, but it doesn't always have the most recent few years.
- Project Muse
Project Muse is a full-text collection of recent journals, in some cases continuing the online coverage of journals from JSTOR.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers
A full-text searchable archive with page images from The Afro-American; The Atlanta Constitution; The Chicago Defender; The Chicago Tribune; The Los Angeles Times; The New York Times; The Washington Post.
There are more databases on the History webpage.
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