A-Z Databases

1893–2010. Full-text newspaper from Baltimore, Maryland, covering the politics, society, and events of the time from an African American perspective. Part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

A collection of primary and secondary sources that record and illuminate the Black experience, from ancient Africa through modern times. Includes scholarly essays from Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, bibliographic citations from the Black Studies Periodicals Database and the Black Literature Index, the full text of the most influential Black newspaper in the U.S., The Chicago Defender (1910–1975), and more.

This database offers access to the searchable full text of several hundred British periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 21st and provides high-resolution facsimile page images.

This digital primary-source collection features colonial office files from the various Caribbean territories under British rule in the 17th through the 19th centuries, drawn from the National Archives of the United Kingdom. Our access includes Module 1: "Settlement, Slavery, and Empire, 1624–1832."

1859–2020. Searchable online access to the full text of The Irish Times and related publications from Dublin, Ireland. Available through ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

1838–2010. Searchable online access to the full text of The Times of India and its predecessors, published in Mumbai. Available through ProQuest Historical Newspapers.