Research Guides: Middle East and Islamic Studies Guide: Islam in the Americas

Useful Databases

America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO) Indexes literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.

Anthropology Plus Indexes core journals plus local and lesser-known journals in social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies.

Archive of Americana This family of historical collections contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries. Includes America's Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera, Early American Imprints (Series I and II), House and Senate Journals (Series I, 1789-1817), and Senate Executive Journals (1789-1980)

Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO) Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

History Vault This resource consists of a few collections which can be cross-searched, these collections are: -Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records -Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1 -Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975 -NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files -NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces -Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantations Records, Part 1 -Slavery and the Law

Index Islamicus Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes documents from the United States and Europe, as well as other parts of the world.

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice Bringing together primary source documents from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world, this resource allows students and researchers to explore and compare unique material relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice.

Primary Sources

Al-Ahari, Muhammad A., Five Classic Muslim Narratives: Selim Aga, Jon Ben Sulaiman, Nicolas Said, Omar ibn Said, Abu Bakr Sadiq (Chicago: Magribine Press, 2006).

Austin, Allan D., African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transltlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles (New York : Routledge, 1997).

Curtis, Edward E. (ed.), The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009).

Melton, J. and Michael A. Koszegi, Islam in North America: A Sourcebook (New York: Garland Pub, 1992).

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Newspapers

America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
America's Historical Newspapers includes articles from local and regional American and Hispanic American newspapers from all 50 states. Coverage dates from 1690 to the early 20th century. Articles have been scanned as PDFs and include images and advertisements, and are full text searchable.
Black Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Black Historical Newspapers (formerly Historical African American Newspapers). Full historic content from major black newspapers: The Chicago Defender, The New York Amsterdam News, The Atlanta Daily World, The Baltimore Afro-American, and Los Angeles Sentinel.
Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Search the PDF full text and image archives of more than 100 major U.S. and African American newspapers.

Highlights include: Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945), Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Chicago Tribune (1849-1986), Christian Science Monitor (1908-2004), Los Angeles Times (1881-1995), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), The Chicago Defender (1910 - 1975), The New York Times (1851-2014), The New York Tribune (1841-1922), The New York Tribune (1900-1910), San Francisco Chronicle (1869-1922), The Wall Street Journal (1889-2000), The Washington Post (1877-2001), St. Petersburg Times / Tampa Bay Times (1901-2009), Korea Times (1956-2016)
Latin American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Latin American Newspapers Series 1 includes 19th and 20th-century newspapers with access to diverse titles from Latin America, across a broad range of academic disciplines.
New York Times, 1985-present (via Gale) This link opens in a new window
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This online publication provides users with indexing and full text articles from January 1985 to the present.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

FBI Records on Muslims in America

FBI file on Malcolm X

FBI file on Elijah Muhammad

Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984

Bringing Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys

Bringing Cultures' American Stories

Includes a bibliography on Muslims in American and primary sources

Duke University Libraries' Select Bibliography on Muslims in America

Bibliography