The Infobase African-American History database offers a variety of articles, primary sources, and peer-reviewed articles to begin to define your topic.  Start here and use what you learn to help construct a JSTOR search.

JSTOR is a college-level database.  It is best to use this database once you have a firm idea of the type of articles that you need for your topic.  Search strategies must be carefully considered to achieve a successful result. 

• Always use the advanced search.

• Use smart searching techniques like " " and boolean search terms for a more focused search.

• Features like find (control + F) can help you to navigate the articles (once downloaded as pdfs) returned.

• Carefully consider your keywords.  Add or change keywords as needed to reach the information that best supports your approach.

Internet Archive is an online library the provides free online access to books and digital materials. 

•  To use this resource students must Sign Up/Login.  

• Use your Google credentials to sign in with your SB Students account.  

• Materials can be "borrowed" by clicking on the blue borrow button, just as you would in a physical library. 

The Slave Voyages database that offers information (maps, ship manifests, arrival and departure points, timelines, etc.) on the transatlantic and intercontinental slave trade.  Free access is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Internet African History Sourcebook is a database of primary source documents related to the history of Africa hosted by Fordham University.

BlackPast.org an online encyclopedia which includes separate archives for African American and Global African history which includes biographies, primary sources (documents, speeches, photographs, and artifacts), and other important resources. 

The Library of Congress collection includes primary source documents that date from throughout US history.  

• Broad keyword searches might be good to begin browsing for a topic, but targeted terms are needed to make the most of this vast archive.  

• The Library's Research Guide for African-American History and Culture may provide an idea of the holdings.  

• To locate a historical newspaper, try Chronicling America, which provides full access to numerous U.S. newspapers from 1770 to 1963.

The Art Inventory Catalog database includes the Smithsonian’s art collection.  

To begin your search, it might be more helpful to browse the Smithsonian's African American Artists and Selected Works to help pinpoint the artist you wish to research.  

"StoryCorps is committed to the idea that everyone has an important story to tell and that everyone’s story matters. Our mission: to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all — one story at a time." StoryCorps archives contain many oral history interviews that feature African-American experiences.

If your area of interest dates from 1830s through the Civil War and into Reconstruction, the Colored Convention Project offers information and primary sources on the Colored Conventions which "brought Black men and women together in a decades-long campaign for civil and human rights."

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents an AP African American Studies Guide which features the topics, learning objectives, primary and secondary sources for all aspects of the material covered in the course.