James Madison University
Libraries and Educational Technologies

Africana Studies

Primary Sources

	African American Song (Alexander Street Press) African American Song has merged with American Song. Please begin accessing this information through American Song or Music Online. This access point will expire. 16,000 tracks of historical blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narrative recordings from the first half of the 20th century. [more info] Campus/Remote
	African Writers Series (Chadwyck-Healey) Key texts of modern African literature. [more info] Campus/Remote
	American Song (Alexander Street Press) American Song is a history database with music from America's past... [more info] Internet
	Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street Press) Collection of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans... [more info] Campus/Remote
	CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) (The Art Museum Image Consortium) This digital image database offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources... [more info] Campus/Remote
	eHRAF World Cultures: Collection of Ethnography (Yale University) The interface to this database has changed, effective Feb 1, 2008. A cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and ... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Empire Online (1492-1962) Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material... [more info] Campus/Remote
	National Museum of African Art Provides online exhibits of traditional and modern African art. Also links to Radio Africa, which provides streaming audio from the Smithsonian’s Global Sound collection. [more info]
	North American Theatre Online (Alexander Street Press) NATO provides detailed reference information for many theatrical figures, plays, theatres, major productions, and production companies, from Colonial times to the present... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (Cambridge University Press) Contains records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866... [more info] Reference Desk
	Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Contains records of nearly 35,000 trans-Atlantic slaving voyages made between 1514 and 1866... [more info]

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