LIBRARY GUIDE TO HST 3010 - Historical Thinking/Writing (Bekele)

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• Request PDF copies of print articles and book chapters
• Electronic course reserves, available for some classes
• Virtual research help

At KL: Library OneSearch

Beyond KL: MelCat
A statewide catalog of many of Michigan's libraries. It allows you to request books at another library be sent to Kresge Library for you.

Interlibrary Loan
You may request materials we don't have and we'll borrow them from another library for you.

These books provide overviews of the history of Africa, country-specific information, and suggestions for further reading:

The Cambridge History of Africa (online)
An 8-volume series that provides an overview of African history from the earliest times to 1975

New Encyclopedia of Africa (Ref. DT 2 .N48 2008)

Useful databases for scholarly articles in African history:

• JSTOR and Project MUSE
• Archive of African Journals (MSU African Studies Center)
  Full text of 11 African journals

Major journals of African history:

• The Journal of African History
• African Studies Quarterly
• African Studies Review

For more journals:

• Ilissa list of electronic journals (internet library sub-Saharan Africa)
• AfricaBib

To find articles that KL does not have:

• Historical Abstracts
  A comprehensive history database to search for journal articles.
  Use the link to determine if the article is available online in another database or in print in the library. If it isn't, you can request it electronically from another library.

Primary Sources online:

• African Online Digital Library (manuscripts, printed documents, images, oral histories and interviews on various aspects of African history)
• Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent (slides, photographs and sound recordings)
• African National Congress (archive of documents relating to South Africa's liberation movement)
• South African History Online digital archive
• Endangered Archives (includes African collections at the British Library)
• Foreign Relations of the United States (documents about US foreign policy and diplomacy, including with African countries)
• African Collections (Stanford University)
• African Activist Archive Project (records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s -MSU)

Images

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
• African Studies Multimedia Archives (maps, images of art, wildlife, artifacts, and much more)
• The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, 1860-1960
• Images of Colonialism (late-19th and early-20th century trade cards and illustrated European newspapers that document how popular perceptions of Africa were propagated)

Maps

• Afriterra 
• Maps of Africa (Northwestern University - maps from 16th-20th centuries)

Archived websites

• African Politics Web Archive (websites of election campaigns in Africa)

• History of Africa research guide

• Finding Primary Sources at Kresge Library

• Locating Primary Sources for a History Assignment

 

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