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HIST 4955-701—Undergraduate Seminar in History: Genocide and Mass Killing in Colonial Africa

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Originally developed for HIST 4955-701—Undergraduate Seminar in History: Genocide and Mass Killing in Colonial Africa. But is useful for all folks researching colonial Africa.

Secondary source databases

Historical Abstracts from EBSCO This link opens in a new window
The standard indexing service for academic historical writings on all areas of the world, except the United States and Canada. Covers items published from 1972 to present.
Humanities in ProQuest from ProQuest This link opens in a new window
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Searches magazine and journal articles in the arts and humanities. 7000+ sources, mostly full-text from 1986 - present.
JSTOR from JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Broad collection of full-text scholarly journals (approximately 2700 titles). Discipline coverage uneven and usually does not include the most-recent three years.
Project Muse from Muse This link opens in a new window
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Searches journals (approximately 600 titles) and books from over 120 publishers worldwide, often in full-text. Emphasis on humanities and social sciences.

Primary source databases

Frontier Life from Adam Matthew This link opens in a new window
Compiling documents from archives and libraries around the world, this collection captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. The geographical spread of material includes North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 from Adam Matthew This link opens in a new window
Includes the United Kingdom’s Colonial, Dominion and Foreign Offices’ confidential correspondence relating to Africa between 1834 and 1966. Topics addressed range from the French occupation of Algeria in the nineteenth century to Mussolini’s conquest of Ethiopia.
World Newspaper Archive—African Newspapers from Readex This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to historical newspapers from Africa. 1800-1925.
Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980 from Adam Matthew This link opens in a new window
British Government documents from the National Archives UK give access to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime. Included are letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies, first-hand accounts of events, and more.
Liberia and the US: nation-building in Africa, 1864-1918 from Gale This link opens in a new window
This series consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the United States' diplomatic post in Liberia. The topics covered by these records include all aspects of relations with Liberia, and interactions of American citizens with the Liberian government and people.

Slavery & anti-slavery [electronic resource]
Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture at Nineteenth century collections online [electronic resource]
Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture provides an in-depth look into the motivations, activities, and results of the European conquest of Africa in the nineteenth century.

Electronic Enlightenment by Oxford University Press This link opens in a new window
A digital resource for the study of the letter and its place in the rich writing cultures of the eighteenth century. Database includes 79,254 letters and documents and 10,232 correspondents as of Spring 2022.
Empire Online from Adam Matthew This link opens in a new window
Full-text digital reproductions of primary documents relating to the British Empire. 1492-1969.
Documents are organized under five themes: Cultural Contacts, c. 1492-1969; Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire; the Visible Empire; Religion & Empire; and Race, Class & Colonialism, c. 1783-1969.
British Periodicals from ProQuest This link opens in a new window
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Collections I and II: full-text primary source periodicals, 160+ journals from Early British Periodicals and 300+ journals from English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts. Fully searchable text. Topics covered: literature, arts, social sciences. 17th-19th centuries.