Research Guides: HIS 393: Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America: More

Music

Sheet Music Consortium
This cross-searches several online sheet music collections

Harvard College Library: Online Resources for Music Scholars
Do a subject search for sheet music to retrieve listings for many online sheet music collections.

Alcohol resources

Alcohol History Database
Index to 19th & early 20th century materials. No full text, but you can find most of the books in Google Books or in Princeton's

Alcohol Studies Database This link opens in a new window
Contains citations indexed by the Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies since 1987. Primary focus is on research & professional materials dealing with beverage alcohol, its use and related consequences. While a growing amount of literature on other drug use/abuse has been added in recent years, this material represents only a small percentage of the database and is not indexed to the same depth as the alcohol literature.

The African-American perspective

Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Scholarly essays and access to articles in Black Studies journals. Combines the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), and the full-text of The Chicago Defender, an important Black newspaper, from 1935-1975
Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Full-text collection of published non-fiction works is included, as well as interviews, journal articles, letters, and other materials of leading African-Americans. Biographical essays by leading scholars and an annotated bibliography of the sources in the database are also featured.