HIST 1200: Darn Tootin’! Histories of the African American West (Fall 2025)

Excellent overview articles with bibliographies.

Brings together text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Annotated bibliographies of primary and secondary sources written by top scholars in the field.

Extremely high quality set of online encyclopedias covering all disciplines, time periods, global in coverage.

100 page introductions (with blbliography) on topics in Arts, Humanities, Medicine, Health, Sciences, Mathematics, Social sciences, and Law.

Companions are highly recommended.

also available in print, (Olin Reference CT213 .A68x 1999 +). Offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women, from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped the nation. Features thousands of illustrations, hyperlinked cross-references and links to select web sites.

Highly recommended. Excellent articles. Updated frequently.

Also in print, (Olin Reference E174 .O94 2001 +).

A classic ten volume encyclopedia. Also in print (Olin Reference E174 .D52x 2003 +)