There are many more resources available to help you excel on your research projects, and you can reach them from the Lima Campus Library website.
African Liberation and the US Civil Rights Movement
Southern African Liberation Struggles: New Local, Regional and Global Perspectives
The Civil Rights Movement: The Black Freedom Struggle in America
The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction
Other Reading
The History of the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
African Americans on Television
Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences
To find more books, you are going to use the library's catalog, below.
The Lima Campus Library (and a great many academic libraries) is organized by a system known as 'Library of Congress'. That means that books or grouped together by subject rather than author, letting you know where you can go to browse and potentially find some interesting books on the topic.
If you want help finding a book in the library, just print out the page from the catalog and bring it to the library. We're here to help!
Listed below are databases that can lead you to articles from scholarly journals in the field of history and related fields. If you want a refresher on using databases, please get in touch with us at the library.
For a complete list of all of OSU's African American and African Studies database, please click here.
For a complete list of all of OSU's databases, please click here.
So what is a peer-reviewed article? Peer-review is a process in which articles written by experts in a field of study are reviewed and critiqued by experts in that field before they are published. This process usually assures any reader of the quality of research. Below are the differences between peer-reviewed articles, and articles that are not peer-reviewed:
Articles that ARE Peer-Reviewed:
Articles that ARE NOT Peer-Reviewed:
There are some great tips and tools that you can use to make sure you’re getting peer-reviewed results:
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and these resources are provided as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.
Purdue OWL APA Formatting and Style Guide
Purdue OWL MLA Formatting and Style Guide