Databases

Licensed and recommended free databases, indexing and abstracting services, and full-text reference resources.

	African American Newspapers, Series 1	African American Newspapers provides online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. This unique collection, which includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, features many rare 19th-century titles. Newly digitized, these newspapers published by or for African Americans can now be browsed and searched as never before. Part of the America’s Historical Newspapers collection, African American Newspapers was created from the most extensive African-American newspaper archives in the world.
	Historic Children's Voices	Historic Children's Voices provides an important window into how young writers in the nineteenth century chronicled their daily lives, wrote stories and poetry, expressed their beliefs and values, and commented on cultural changes of the time. Researchers can view the digital library of diaries, newspapers, and books as well as discover additional research tools and recordings of past programs to explore children's lives more deeply. Teachers will find a variety of guides and lesson plans to help bring the past to life for their students.