PACFTB Literary and Cultural Heritage Maps Research
This guide is for historians, students, community members, and others who are authoring biographies and feature articles for the Pennsylvania Center for the Book's Literary and Cultural Maps of Pennsylvania project. It includes recommended databases, fact
Available at Penn State and some other Pennsylvania libraries. Covers journals, magazines, and newspapers produced by Black, Latino, Native, and other ethnic communities.
Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Continuously growing since 1991, with archival material back to 1985, Ethnic NewsWatch is now a collection of more than 470,000 full-text articles from over 200 publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages and more than 100,000 articles in Spanish, ENW offers in-depth coverage of a wide range of current and retrospective topics easily accessed using free text and fielded searching. An average of 7,500 new articles is added each month.
Available at Penn State and some other Pennsylvania libraries. Combines several encyclopedias on African/African American History published by Oxford University Press. Provides biographies and other brief, authoritative information.
The African American Studies Center features the three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, published by Oxford in 2006; the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine in 2005, the highly acclaimed five volume Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience. The Center also includes content from much-anticipated forthcoming print publications including the African American National Biography project (estimated at 8 volumes), edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., scheduled for publication in 2008; and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture, due for publication 2007. In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature and selected articles from other reference works.
Available at Penn State and some other Pennsylvania libraries. An annual series that provides biographies of notable African Americans. This link allows you to search volumes from 1992 to 2013. Newer volumes may be available elsewhere.
Available at Penn State and some other Pennsylvania libraries. This encyclopedia features women from all walks of life, including: royalty, lawyers, politicians, soldiers, heroines, pacifists, resistance fighters, financiers, philanthropists, and authors. Coverage includes many women for whom profiles are not included in traditional sources.
A list of Penn State research guides that link to the library's resources for specific populations, including African Americans, Asian Americans, Indigenous peoples, Latin Americans, and other groups.
Not available at Penn State, but available at some other Pennsylvania libraries. Curated digital collections of primary and secondary sources pertaining to African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Latina/o American social, political, and cultural history.
Hosted by Dickinson University, this is an online archive of documents, images, and other materials about American Indian children brought to Carlisle.
Available at Penn State and some other Pennsylvania libraries. Includes the Philadelphia Tribune, the Pittsburgh Courier, the Baltimore Afro-American, the Cleveland Post, the New York Amsterdam News, the Chicago Defender, and several other Black newspapers.
Twelve historical black newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2010); Baltimore Afro-American (1893-2010); Chicago Defender (1910-2010); Cleveland Call and Post (1934-2010); Kansas City Call, (1919-2010); Louisville Defender, (1951-2010); Michigan Chronicle (1939-2010); New York Amsterdam News (1922-2010); Norfolk Journal & Guide (1916-2010); Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2010); Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2010); and Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2010)
Available at Penn State and some other Pennsylvania libraries. Black newspapers from throughout the United States.
Beginning with the Freedom's Journal (NY)--the first African American newspaper published in the United States--this database includes page reproductions of African American newspapers from every region of the United States.
Available at Penn State and some other Pennsylvania libraries. Philadelphia's African American newspaper.
The oldest continuously published black newspaper, is dedicated to the needs and concerns of the fourth largest black community in the U.S. During the 1930s the paper supported the growth of the United Way, rallied against the riots in Chester, PA, and continuously fought against segregation.
Available at Penn State and some other Pennsylvania libraries. Pittsburgh's African American newspaper.
One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Pittsburgh Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.
Established by the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Teenie Harris Archiv includes nearly 80,000 images pertaining to the black urban experience, especially in Pittsburgh.
Available at Penn State and some other Pennsylvania libraries. A resource for scholarly articles on women's studies.
This resource provides access to over 232,000 records drawn from ten important Women's Studies databases. Among the databases included in Women's Resources International are Women's Studies Abstracts, one of the premiere Women's Studies indexes; four files from Women Studies Librarian at the University of Wisconsin; Popline Subset on Women; and Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography of Mostly English Language Journal Articles from the World Health Organization. Coverage: 1972 to date; citations and abstracts only. Updated semiannually.
Available at Penn State and some other Pennsylvania libraries. Covers women's consumer magazines from the 19th century through recent years.
Women’s Magazine Archive provides access to the complete archives of the foremost titles of this type, including Good Housekeeping and Ladies’ Home Journal, which serve as canonical records of evolving assumptions about gender roles and cultural mores. Other titles here focus on narrower topics but deliver valuable source content for specific research areas. "Parents", for example, is of particular relevance for research in the fields of children’s education, psychology, and health, as well as reflecting broader social historical trends.
Available at Penn State and some other Pennsylvania libraries. Backfiles of selected leading men’s consumer magazines, with coverage from 1845 to 2015.
"The backfiles of selected leading men’s consumer magazines, with coverage from 1845-2015."
Available at Penn State and some other Pennsylvania libraries. Scholarly journals on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, and related topics.
LGBT Life is the premier resource to the world's literature regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. Designed for academic, professional and public communities, this database contains indexing and abstracts for GLBT-specific core periodicals.
Not available at Penn State, but available at some other Pennsylvania libraries. Covers journal articles in women's studies, men's studies, LGBTQ+ studies, and other topics in gender studies.