Selected resources
- WorldCat Library Catalog This link opens in a new windowSearch for books, articles, and more that are held by Bucknell and beyond.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowContains citations, abstracts, and some full text of scholarship on the history of the world from 1450 to the present.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAn archive of core, scholarly journals from a variety of subject areas. Coverage begins with the very first issue through all but recent years.
- AfricaBib This link opens in a new windowThis English language database indexes over 33,000 articles from over 280 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent.
- Global Issues (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new windowAn excellent resource for beginning to develop a topic, GIC organizes its content around specific topics. "Browse Issues and Topics" to access multimedia portal pages on some of the world's most important issues.
- Empire Online This link opens in a new windowPrimary and secondary resources about the rise and fall of Empires. Major sections include: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire; the Visible Empire; Religion & Empire; Race, Class, Colonialism, Imperialism.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowMLA is the primary research database for literary studies. It indexes books, journal articles, and other materials from 1963 to the present concerning literature, folklore, linguistics, modern languages, and the dramatic arts.
- Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920 This link opens in a new windowCreated from the holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920, is the largest collection of its kind. More than 1,200 searchable books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides, and ephemera cover the history of this broad region from the 16th century to the early 20th century.
- Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa This link opens in a new windowStruggles for Freedom in Southern Africa includes an array of materials about the liberation and independence movements in Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowThis searchable repository of over 1.6 million high quality digital images offers tools for viewing, sharing, and saving visual materials. Although its strengths are visual art and architecture, Artstor includes images that are useful in both the humanities and the sciences.
- Africa Online Digital LibraryProvides a portal to multimedia collections
- Digital SchomburgDigital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global black experience 24/7. Users worldwide can find, in this virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Voyages databaseIncludes data and information on nearly 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. Database enables searching by ship, nation, voyage dates, slave characteristics, place voyage began/ended, and more.
Encyclopedia of African History and Culture by Call Number: DT3 .P27 2005 (Reference Stacks)Publication Date: 2005-04
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought by Call Number: DT14 .I74 2010 (Reference collection - main floor)Publication Date: 2010From St. Augustine and early Ethiopian philosophers to the anti-colonialist movements of Pan-Africanism and Negritude, this encyclopedia offers a comprehensive view of African thought, covering the intellectual tradition both on the continent in its entirety and throughout the African Diaspora in the Americas and in Europe.
- Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave TradeWorldCat link to ebook
FYI
- Bucknell's Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives and CulturesProvides faculty and student intellectual and creative engagement with the interdisciplinary investigation of the cultures, histories, narratives, peoples, geographies and arts of Africa and the African diaspora.
- HathitrustThrough a partnership of academic & research institutions, Hathitrust offers a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
- The World Factbook - CIAThe World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.