POLS 495: Black Social and Political Thought
Instructor: Dr. Sherri Wallace, slwall08@louisville.edu,
(502)852-4432
Indexes to Journal Articles & Other Sources | Data Sources
How to Distinguish between Primary and Secondary Sources | Writer's Manual
How to Distinguish between Primary and Secondary Sources | Writer's Manual
Indexes to Journal Articles & Other Sources
African American Biographical Database
Contains narratives from biographical sources published between 1790 and 1950. Covers African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person. (Chadwyck-Healey) 
African American
Newspapers: the 19th Century
Complete text of several major African American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.
America: History & Life covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present with indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present. Citations and links to book and media reviews are also included. (EBSCOhost)
Indexes a vast amount of information published by and about Congress: hearing transcripts and submitted testimony; committee reports; bills and public laws; selected committee prints; congressional documents; Congressional Record; Federal Register; current Code of Federal Regulations; and current U.S. code. Some full-text. (Lexis-Nexis)
Full-text database providing access to articles that appeared in 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press. 400,000+ complete articles dating back to 1990. 
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. (EBSCOhost)
International Index to Black Periodicals
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals. (Chadwyck-Healey)
Full-text articles from journals in a variety of disciplines, from the journals' first issues through the late 1990's. (Acrobat Reader needed to print.)
Access to a wide range of full-text material in News (General, U.S., World, News wires & transcripts, Non-english language, Business, Legal, University, Medical, Arts & Sports);
Business (Business News, Industry & Market News, Accounting Literature, Company Information [financial reports, profiles, SEC & EDGAR filings & reports], Business Directories); and
Legal (Legal News & Reviews, Case Law, Codes & Regulations [U.S. federal and state], Canadian Legislative Materials, European Union Law, Commonwealth & Foreign Nations, Patent Research Tools, and Legal Career Resources)
Catalog of items owned by the seven University
of Louisville Libraries.
Indexes the contents of older issues (1770-1995) of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. (Chadwyck-Healey)
International index to philosophy-related journal articles and books. Covers 1940-present. (CSA) 
Indexes articles from over 300 essential political science journals. (CSA)
Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 400,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys conducted from 1986 through the present in the U.S. and 80 other countries. (ORS Publishing)
Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines in the social sciences. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index,
Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation
Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)
For additional sources, see the topic guides for Politics & Government and Pan-African Studies.
Data Sources
Black Americans : a statistical sourcebook
Ekstrom Library Reference E185.86 .B5237 2002
Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 400,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys conducted from 1986 through the present in the U.S. and 80 other countries. (ORS Publishing)
- American FactFinder : tutorials are available on the American FactFinder page (click Help, then Tutorials) and at the University of Michigan
Writer's Manual
The Political Science Student Writer's Manual, 4th
Edition.
Ekstrom Library Reference Desk JA86 .S39 2002