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African History Subject Guide

Research Databases


(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)

Europa World Plus


Europa World Plus incorporates the full text contents of some of the Europa World Year Book and the eight Europa regional surveys. This database provides authoritative and current analytical information about countries and international organizations. Country overviews include historic, economic, trade, and political information.
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Historical Abstracts


Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts is the leading electronic bibliography for historical study with indexing for more than 2,000 journals. In addition to key historical journals from virtually every major country Historical Abstracts includes a selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history.
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JSTOR


JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago.
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Reference Materials



Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience

- DT14 .A37435 2005
A five-volume reference set which includes more than three thousand articles, with a focus on political, social, and cultural history.
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Encyclopedia of African Nations and Civilizations

- DT14 .E43 2002
From the Facts on File Library of World History and compiled by the diagram group, this reference book details the continent of Africa's civilization and history.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

- DT58 .O94 2001
Contains 600 articles covering political, religious, economic, social, and intellectual topics from the predynastic era to the period of Roman rule. Good cross-references, index, and bibliographies. Available in print and online.
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Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787

- DT30 .A35 2003
This collection brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years.
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Periodicals



ejournal locator (SFX)


The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
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History Subject Guide Librarian


Schemper, Lugene

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