The Baltimore Afro-American was one of the most widely circulated African American newspapers. The paper's contributors have included writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J. Sunders Redding, artist Romare Beardon, and sports editor Sam Lacy. To see Baltimore history unfold, start here.
Provided by ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
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The Baltimore Sun on ProQuest has full text of most newspaper articles dating back to September, 1990.
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This database contains issues of the Baltimore Sun from May 1837 up to February 1901.The database is easy to search and contains images of the actual Sun Paper as it appeared on the date of publication.
Baltimore Sun Historical Archive is part of NewsBank's Maryland Historical Newspapers.
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The Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to more than 10 million biographical sketches in over 1000 current and retrospective biographical dictionaries, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. Each citation sites the name, birth, and death dates as well as a complete citation for all references.
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Biography in Context
(formerly the Biography Resource Center) is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 180,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 242,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.
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Starting with Victorian plays and working up to the present,
Black Drama from
Alexander Street Press includes plays and biographies, play bills, images, production notes, performance information and much more.
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Black Short Fiction from
Alexander Street Press brings together works by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora, from earliest times to present. It presents traditions ranging from early african oral traditions to Hip Hop and covers fables, parables, ballads, folktales, short stories, trickster tales, story cycles and novellas.
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Black Studies Center is a leading tool that supports research, teaching, and learning in Black Studies. BSC combines: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), historical black newspapers, and the Black Literature Index.
The Black Studies Center provides cross searchable access to the historical backfiles of :
- Baltimore Afro American (1893-1986)
- Chicago Daily Defender (1956-1975)
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Black Thought and Culture from
Alexander Street Press connects students and researchers with works by leading African Americans. More than 100,000 pages of monographs, speeches, essays, articles and interviews, written by leaders within the black community from earliest times to 1975, illustrate the evolution of what it means to "be black". Teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, veterans, entertainers and others are represented.
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Business Insights : Essentials provides business and industry content in the following areas: Periodical articles, news articles, and press releases. Detailed information for domestic and international companies and associations, including information on:
- corporate hierarchical structures
- Investment reports
- Corporate chronologies and company histories
- Brands and product information
- Industry and company rankings
- Financial Overviews
- Industry Overviews
- HR Law Case Digests
Replaces Gale Business Resources
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An archive of business related articles from across the country. This unique resource contains the full text of business related articles selected from local-level newspapers such as the Harford Business Ledger and the Star-Democrat (Easton). This is an incredible resource for small business information and regional news. Baltimore area newspapers include: The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Daily Record, and Warfields Business Record.
ceased updating June 2009
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Business Source Premier. Full text searching of journals, business related newspapers and journals. All business disciplines are covered, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
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