Research Guides: Race, Identity and Experience in American Art: TYLE 0805: Search for Articles

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Databases give you access to articles published in credible journals and magazines that you cannot find freely on the web.

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
- Focus on America & Canada history & culture.
- Citations & abstracts of articles in periodicals.
African American Music Reference This link opens in a new window
African American Music Reference provides full-text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is expanding to include coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, and other forms of black American musical expression.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus This link opens in a new window
Note: FIAF has moved to the ProQuest platform and has an updated URL.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus is a bibliographical index covering the film journals up to the present day. FIAF also includes the following databases: International index to film periodicals (1972- ) and International index to television periodicals (1979-1998).
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full-Text This link opens in a new window
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full-Text contains content on International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher and Modern Drama.
Vogue Archive (1892-present) This link opens in a new window
Vogue Archive (1892 - present) is a complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names.

Newspapers & Primary Sources

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
African American Periodicals 1825-1995 This link opens in a new window
American Periodicals Series Online This link opens in a new window
- Spans 1740-1900
- Full text of articles, advertisements, illustrations, editiorial cartoons, obituaries, letters to the editor, etc.
- More than 1,100 American magazines and journals
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
America's Historical Newspapers provides searchable, scanned newspaper pages. The collection contains Early American Newspapers, Series 1-5 (1690-1922), Caribbean Newspapers (1718-1876), African American Newspapers, Series 1 (1827-1998), and The Civil War (1840-1877).
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
NexisUni (formerly Lexis Nexis) offers full-text access to content from more than 15,000 news, legal and business sources.

New York Times (1851 - 2008)

New York Times Full-Text (1980-present) [via ProQuest U.S. Newsstream] This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Incldues the American Periodicals Series, and the following historical newspaper runs:

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Boston Globe
Chicago Defender
Chicago Tribune
Guardian & Observer
Irish Times
Los Angeles Times
New York Amsterdam News
New York Times
Philadelphia Tribune
Pittsburgh Courier
Scotsman
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post

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