Sociology Library Guide

Designed to serve the information needs of the caring professions, including practitioners, researchers, and students in healthcare, social services, education, and related areas. It is focused on a core of the most relevant English language scholarly journals covering aspects of health and social care from a broadly social scientific perspective. Coverage: 1987-current

The bibliographic records cover urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline of urban studies.

Includes records and full text covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology from around the world.

A collection of full-text journals related to criminal justice topics.

The focus of this module is on the NAACP's efforts to combat lynching, mob violence, discrimination in the criminal justice system, and white resistance to civil rights efforts. These files are supplemented by materials on segregation and discrimination complaints regarding public accommodations and recreational facilities sent to and investigated by the NAACP, and records on discrimination in employment.

Covers essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Race, Ethnicity & Education and Ethnic & Racial Studies.

Sourced from Amistad Research Center, this primary source collections features content from the Race Relations Department, based at Fisk University from 1943-1970, that investigated problem areas in race relations and developed methods for educating communities and preventing conflict. Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.

Ethnic American Newspapers features more than 130 fully searchable newspapers in 10 languages from 25 states, with an emphasis on Americans of Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak and Welsh descent.

Pre-curated search links to surface newspaper articles on major topics in Black history, such as slavery and flights to freedom; voting rights and voter suppression and disenfranchisement; segregation and civil rights; prejudice and discrimination; and activism and protest movements. Sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black newspapers.

Scholarly journals indexed by Black Studies experts; essays from Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience; African American newspapers including The Chicago Defender from 1909-2010; and historical videos and images. Timeline feature allows you to search for materials on a specific chronological period.

Part of ancestry.com's Fold3 platform for military records, Native American Archives includes the following digital collections: US, Ratified Indian Treaties, 1722-1869; US, Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940; US, Dawes Enrollment Cards, 1898-1914;US, Guion Miller Roll, 1908-1910; US, Dawes Packets, 1898-1914; US, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the U.S. Court of Claims, 1906-1909 of the U.S. Court of Claims; and US, Photos - Native Americans (Rinehart), 1898, from the Boston Public Library's collection of Frank A. Rinehart's Native American photographs.

Provides a collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender with material dating back to the sixteenth century. Topics include health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, and erotica.

This collection of original primary source material from more than 21 libraries, most in the U.K., supports those studying the history of gender from diverse perspectives. Most materials are in English, with a geographic emphasis on Britain and the former British empire.

Documents the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. The collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.

Offers articles from an array of academic, radical, community and independent presses. Topics include sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, healthcare, and the workplace from 1970 to the present.

Resource for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history, providing immediate access to rare primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History, Duke University and The New York Public Library -- addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes.

Primary source documents from the National Negro Business League, a business organization founded in 1900 by Booker T. Washington. The League included small African American business owners, doctors, farmers, craftsmen, and other professionals and the league's goal was to allow business to put economic development at the forefront of getting African American equality in America.

Brings together a series of Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) collections that highlight efforts to meld the issue of civil rights and antipoverty initiatives. It includes: 1) Alphabetical File of Samuel Yette, 1964-1966: Yette was the Special Assistant to the Director of Civil Rights. Among his records are correspondence, reports, antipoverty program analyses, minutes of meetings, transcripts of testimonies, and other material. 2) Program Files, 1964-1967: These records consist of correspondence, weekly reports on civil rights matters, reports by civil rights coordinators, equal employment opportunity guidelines, and more. 3) Records Relating to the Administration of the Civil Rights Program in the Regions, 1965-1966.

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This database includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

Periodicals chronicling the wave of lyceums, athenaeums, and universities across the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sourced from the American Antiquarian Society.