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Databases
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The search engine for materials owned by the library, both on the shelf and online. Also provides millions of full text article and citation records harvested from publishers, open access repositories, and a large percentage of the library's licensed databases. Click here to view a list of databases with content not findable or only partially findable in OneSearch.
- Diversity Collection This link opens in a new window
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Contains full text databases Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch and Alt-PressWatch in one platform. - America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Index to scholarly journal and magazine articles, books, dissertations, and conference papers covering the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada, from prehistory-present. Includes full-text coverage for 200 journals and 80 books, with indexed publications dating back to 1863. Access limited to 6 users. - Dissertations & Theses Global, ProQuest This link opens in a new window
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Index to dissertations and theses from over 3,000 institutions in 88 countries. Full text coverage spans from 1743-present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637. NOTE: Dissertations & Theses Global may also be searched and accessed via Web of Science, as well as OneSearch. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Full text of all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR that span more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with millions of primary sources across four collections: Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa. Also explore 3+ million images from ARTstor and over 10,000 open access books. Note: The library does not license any collections of fee-based books from JSTOR. New collections added Aug 2023, are identified below. See more... for details.
Journals
Below is a select list of journals. Searching the databases listed in the box below will lead you to additional publications relevant to research and teaching in the areas or anti-racism and race.
Find Primary Source Documents
(Photos from Black Freedom Struggle Database, below)
Websites
- Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equality, ProQuestOver 6,000 documents focused on critical people and events in African American history, organized in six different phases of Black Freedom, from Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement up to the Contemporary Era.
- Freedmen's Bureau Search Portal, National Museum of African American History and CultureRecords from the United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau. Multiple sets of Freedmen’s Bureau data in one place, allows users to search indexed data for specific names, places, and dates and transcribed data for topics, subjects, institutions, and any other words or phrases.
Databases
- Black Abolitionist Papers This link opens in a new window
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Full text of over 15,000 digitized primary sources including correspondence; speeches, sermons, and lectures; articles, essays, and editorials from more than 200 newspapers; and poems and other miscellaneous documents from African Americans involved in the abolition movement between 1830-1865, with the majority of content coming from the U.S., Canada, and the British Isles.
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(1909-1975) Full text digitized newspaper covering politics, society, and events of the time from an African-American perspective - HeinOnline: American Indian Law Collection This link opens in a new window
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Full text American Indian Law related treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence. Access provided by the UM Law School. - History Vault This link opens in a new window
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Full text of several million pages of digitized primary source materials drawn from the National Archives, presidential libraries, and the archival papers of key organizations and individuals, presented in eight modules: (1) Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records, (2) Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1, (3) NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files, (4) NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces, (5) Slavery and the Law (1775-1867), (6-7) Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantations Records, Parts 1 and 2, (8) Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975. NOTE: Beginning July 2024, History Vault moved to a new interface. The former version is available from History Vault (Legacy). - Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) This link opens in a new window
Full-text publications, videos, oral histories, and digitized archival documents and photographs pertaining to the Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on North America. Anyone can use the freely available materials in the portal, but certain content is only available under a license. Click on the "Find it at University of Montana" buttons in the database to check for available options.
- Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Full text digitized newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. Includes major newspapers as well as those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, the Confederacy, and other groups and interests. Also included are illustrated papers that bring the nineteenth century to life through the drawings of many artists. **Note: Access the collection from Gale Primary Sources to cross-search a wider range of digital collections and for more textual analysis tools.
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Full text of over 119,000 digitized pages of biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories on the indigenous peoples of North America. - Sabin Americana (1500-1926) This link opens in a new window
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Full text digitized books, pamphlets, serials and other documents of original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and more about the Americas, published throughout the world. Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana.
Curriculum Planning Resources
- Native American Pedagogies, Office of Teaching & Learning, University of Denver"Information and guiding cultural context to design welcoming academic spaces for teaching and learning."
- Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus, Catherine Halley (2020)Articles to "help students understand George Floyd’s death in the context of institutionalized racism."
- Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources, Anna Stamborski, Nikki Zimmermann, and Bailie Gregory (2020)Working document "to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices for anti-racist work."
- The Anti-Racist Reading List: 38 books for those open to changing themselves, and their world, Ibram X. Kendi (2019)"This anti-racist syllabus is for people realizing they were never taught how to be anti-racist."
- Teaching Race: Pedagogy and Practice, Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching (2019)"This guide summarizes some of the common challenges instructors may encounter and offers five broad pedagogical principles for teaching racial justice, and three possible strategies for implementing each strategy in the classroom."
- Teaching Anti-Racism, Creighton University"A collection of resources developed by Dr. Erika Dakin Kirby and Dr. Guy McHendry and supported by Creighton University’s Kingfisher Institute for the Liberal Arts and Professions."
- Justice in June, Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace"A starting place for individuals trying to become better allies. Choose how much time you have each day to become more informed as step one to becoming an active ally to the black community."
- Facing History & Ourselves"Facing History’s resources address racism, antisemitism, and prejudice at pivotal moments in history; we help students connect choices made in the past to those they will confront in their own lives."
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Index to education-related scholarly and professional journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, books, and government publications, from 1966-present. Project of the U.S. Department of Education.