Librarian for History and African American Studies
Steven Knowlton
Contact:
A-17-H-2 Firestone Library
609-258-0496
steven.knowlton@princeton.edu
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https://steven-knowlton.scholar.princeton.edu/
609-258-0496
steven.knowlton@princeton.edu
Make an Appointment
https://steven-knowlton.scholar.princeton.edu/
Subjects: African American, African American Studies, Asian American, Asian American Studies, Canadian, Economic, Government Documents, Hispanic American, History, History, United States, Indigenous Studies, Labor, Military, Native American, Newspapers & Magazines, North American History, Personal Papers, Political & Diplomatic, Radio, Television, & Film, Slavery & Anti-slavery, Social, Women
Using secondary sources to find primary sources
The quest for primary sources can often start from reading a good academic book on your topic. In addition to the sources listed below, you may find others of interest by checking the footnotes, endnotes and bibliography of a published secondary source.
Digital Primary Sources - General Topics in Medical History
- History of Science, Technology, and Medicine This link opens in a new windowIndexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of science and technology and allied fields. Coverage includes all languages in which these materials are published.
- Medline (PubMed) This link opens in a new windowCitations and full-text of medical journal articles, which can be used to trace differential medical treatment of racial groups
Digital Primary Sources - newspapers, periodicals, and ephemera
- African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998Full-text collection of African American newspapers printed across the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
- ProQuest African American Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full-text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press.
- African American Periodicals, 1825-1995Online collection of academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other diverse periodicals.
- Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 This link opens in a new windowIncludes a complete run of The Black Panther newspaper
- Social Protest Collection: Popular Culture in Britain and America This link opens in a new windowDigital reproductions of mateirals held in the Social Protest Collection of the Bancroft Library at the Unviersity of California consisting of pamphlets, leaflets, flyers, posters, and other ephemera focusing on the Vietnam War and Civil Rights. Also includes material on Black Power, the women’s movement, lesbian and gay rights, Third World issues, political documentation from the Left and Right, campus labour disputes and the movement against nuclear power and...
- Alternative and Underground Press: Popular Culture in Britain and America This link opens in a new window
Digital collection of Alternative and Underground Press publications focused on Vietnam, women's rights, sexual liberation and civil rights in Britain and America. 1962-1977
- Reveal Digital Independent Voices This link opens in a new windowCollection of magazines, journals, and newspapers of the alternative press from the 1960s, including feminists, anti-war groups, African-Americans, Native-Americans and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.
Digital Primary Sources - records of activism and daily life
- History Vault This link opens in a new windowIncludes paper of organizations including the NAACP, CORE, and SNCC
- Race Relations in America This link opens in a new windowBased at Fisk University from 1943-1970, the Race Relations Department and its annual Institute were set up by the American Missionary Association to investigate problem areas in race relations and develop methods for educating communities and preventing conflict. Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department's staff and Institute participants, including...
- African American Communities This link opens in a new windowFocusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.
Oral Histories
- HistoryMakers This link opens in a new window
Oral history interviews with more than 2,600 historically significant African Americans in fields such as the arts, business, education, entertainment, the law, the military, politics, religion, and science.
- Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new windowIncludes tutorials in conducting and analyzing oral histories
Digital Primary Sources - economic and social data
- Social Explorer This link opens in a new windowAllows user to visually analyze and understand the demography of the United States through the use of interactive maps and data reports from 1790 to the present. Also includes the 2011 censuses for Canada and the United Kingdom.
Manuscript collections in Princeton University Library
Princeton University Library has a number of collections of manuscripts that reflect African American history. You may search the list of Finding Aids at https://findingaids.princeton.edu/.
Some collections of note include: