{"id":1342,"date":"2011-02-07T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T18:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uconnstamfordlibrary.wordpress.com\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2011-02-07T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T18:41:08","slug":"black-history-month-free-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/2011\/02\/07\/black-history-month-free-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month &#8211; Free resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These resources will be freely available in the month of February:<\/p>\n<p><strong>EBSCO<\/strong><br \/>\nAfrican American Archives &#8211; <a title=\"African American Archives\" href=\"http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=uid&amp;user=csl&amp;password=password&amp;profile=footnoteep\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=uid&amp;user=csl&amp;password=password&amp;profile=footnoteep<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The African American Archives provides over a million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience over several centuries, the earliest coming from the collection of Essential Records Concerning Slavery and Emancipation from the Danish West Indies (1672-1917). There are several other slavery-related collections, including letters, account books, annual reports, news clippings, and related manuscripts from the American Colonization Society. The African American Archives also includes Records of the Southern Claims Commission, government records, original muster and hospital rolls, descriptive books, lists of deserters, returns, notational cards, enlistment papers, casualty sheets, death reports, prisoner of war papers, and correspondence.<\/p>\n<p>The African American Archives also includes Records of the Southern Claims Commission, government records, original muster and hospital rolls, descriptive books, lists of deserters, returns, notational cards, enlistment papers, casualty sheets, death reports, prisoner of war papers, and correspondence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gale Cengage <\/strong>&#8211; <a title=\"Gale Cengage - Black History Month\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gale.cengage.com\/free_resources\/bhm\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.gale.cengage.com\/free_resources\/bhm\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Includes biographical and historical resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ProQuest<\/strong><br \/>\nBlack Historical Newspapers &#8211; <a title=\"Proquest Black Historical Newspapers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/trials\/trialSummary.action?view=subject&amp;trialBean.token=T8F6IVTIS57S18Z0U10S\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/trials\/trialSummary.action?view=subject&amp;trialBean.token=T8F6IVTIS57S18Z0U10S <\/a><\/p>\n<p>ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Examine major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and explore everyday life as written in the Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Philadelphia Tribune, and Cleveland Call and Post.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"iconn.org Black History Month Resources\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cslib.org\/iconnsitemap\/staff\/BlackHistoryMonth.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">IConn.org<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These resources will be freely available in the month of February: EBSCO African American Archives &#8211; http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=uid&amp;user=csl&amp;password=password&amp;profile=footnoteep The African American Archives provides over a million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience over several centuries, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/2011\/02\/07\/black-history-month-free-resources\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27,75,86],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL2n-lE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}