Research Guides: Africana Studies: Find Articles

Journal Articles

These article databases have broad coverage from many disciplines, including current events.

Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCOhost)
Academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books, and videos in all subjects.
SAGE Journals Online
Articles from social science & humanities journals, back to 1999. Indexing only for articles older than 1999 & some journals this library does not subscribe to.
JSTOR
Back files of core scholarly journals in the arts, business, humanities, sciences, and social sciences, from the first issue up to 3-5 years ago.
Cambridge Journals Online
Articles on all subjects from journals published by Cambridge University Press.

These resources provide more in depth coverage of African American history.

African American Experience
Scholarly books and encyclopedias, as well as primary source documents for the history and culture of the African American community.
America: History & Life (EBSCOhost) -- 1954-present
Comprehensive database for U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present that includes history journals (as far back as 1954) plus book reviews from core history journals and relevant dissertations.
Early American Imprints 1639-1800 & 1801-1819
Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned bibliographies by Charles Evans (1639-1800) and Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker (1801-1819).
Women’s Studies Archive (Gale Primary Sources)
Provides a history of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Access to diaries, letters, photographs, news clippings, organizational records, and journals on issues such as societal contributions, social status, and women's movements and more.

Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCOhost)
Selected full-text articles from U.S. newspapers, along with over one million radio and television transcripts.
Newswires (EBSCOhost)
Articles from the Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire. Coverage only goes back one calendar year.

What makes a news story fake?

You can't verify its claims: A fake news article may or may not have links in it tracing its sources; if it does, these links may not lead to articles outside of the site's domain or may not contain information pertinent to the article topic.
Fake news appeals to emotion: Fake news plays on your feelings - it makes you angry or happy or scared. This is to ensure you won't do anything as pesky as fact-checking.
Authors usually aren't experts: Most authors aren't even journalists, but paid trolls.
It can't be found anywhere else: If you look up the main idea of a fake news article, you might not find any other news outlet (real or not) reporting on the issue.
Fake news comes from fake sites: Did you article come from abcnews.com.co? OR Realnewsrightnow.com? These and a host of other URLs are fake news sites.

(Source: Indiana University East Library: http://iue.libguides.com/fakenews)