African American Studies Resource Guide: Online Journals & Newspapers

"Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress."

Ebsco's Academic Search Complete covers a wide range of periodical literature which can be useful for African American Studies.

JSTOR includes several journals in African American Studies, some dating back to the early 1900's: African American Review (previously Black American Literature Forum and Negro American Literature Forum); The Black Perspective in Music; Callaloo; Journal of Black Studies; Journal of Blacks in Higher Education; Journal of Negro Education; Journal of Negro History; and Phylon.

This full-text database of The New York Times (1851 - 2009) consists of scanned images of the actual paper. In addition to searches for articles, users can also search for advertisements, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters.