American Studies Subject Guide   Tags: american, culture, history, literature, society  

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New to Sussex -  Readers Guide Retrospective and African American Newspapers

Readers Guide Retrospective

Search popular general-interest publications from 1890 to 1982 through the Reader’s Guide Retrospective. This new addition to our resources indexes a range of the most popular US based publications from Atlantic Monthly to Vogue.

African American Newspapers

A new collection of newspapers chronicling the African American experience from 1827 – 1998. has been added to the Library’s collection. This resource  provides access to over 250 US newspapers and is invaluable for those researching life in the Antebellum South; the spread of abolitionism;  the Jim Crow Era; the Harlem Renaissance; the Civil Rights movement; political and economic empowerment and more.

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