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Recommended Reading
Reference Books
Databases
Journals
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Subject Librarian
Philip Abela
Black Panther Convention, Lincoln Memorial, 1970. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.04304
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Recommended Reading 
Books in the Short Loan Collection and electronic readings for this course are available by searching Readings & Exams.
Recommended Text
- Payne, Charles M. and Adam Green, Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950, New York, 2003. Library copies
Book Reviews
Use the databases listed above to find book reviews. In some cases you can simply search for the title of the book as a keyword phrase. If the book title isn't distinctive enough to find reviews, add the author's name (also as a keyword).
In America: History & Life you can select Book Review as a Document Type.
JSTOR also has Review as a search limit.
It isn't always necessary to use the search limits, but it can be useful when large numbers of irrelevant articles turn up in your search.
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
To find more information on a topic, a good place to start is a database that indexes the journal articles.
- 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.
- Academic Research Library
- Academic Search Premier
- 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.
Journals
These journals will be useful for the review essay:
- Journal of American History
- American Historical Review
- Journal of African American History (formerly Journal of Negro History)
- Journal of Southern History
- Reviews in American History
- American Quarterly
- Journal of Social History
- Journal of Urban History
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