The Harlem Renaissance

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The U.S. Postal stamp honoring the Jazz Age.

Print Resources
  • Most print resources on the Harlem Renaissance will be located in 700, 800s, 920s, and Biography
  • Print resources on specific topics may be found by searching the Online Catalog for books.

eBooks ~ eBooks from Gale Virtual Reference Library on the Harlem Renaissance

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Databases: Scroll over an image for a complete description.

Search Biography Resource Center for brief and extensive biographies, articles, and web resources about people in American and world life, both past and present.~ Biographies on individuals such as Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, and Aaron Douglas

Search Britannica Online for reference information in literature, science, social science, and history.  Britannica Online also carries news stories from The New York Times. ~ Example searches: Harlem Renaissance, James Weldon Johnson, 1920s Jazz, Duke Ellington

Search History Resource Center: US for reference information, periodical articles, primary sources, and multimedia items such as maps and images from United States history. ~ Examples searches: Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, New Negro, 1920s Jazz.

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Literature Resource Center holds literary criticism essays, articles, bibliographies, author biographies, and Internet resources on American, British, and world authors. ~ Click Authors by Type > Select Harlem Renaissance in Literary Movement or Time Period > Click Search > Produces a list of writers of the Harlem Renaissance.

Search SIRS Renaissance for reference information in the arts and humanities. ~ Search examples: Harlem Renaissance, African American poets, African Americans in Literature, African American artists, African American musicians

Search Student Resource Center Gold for reference, periodical, and primary source articles as well as maps and images across all subject areas. ~ Search examples: Harlem Renaissance, Jazz 1920s

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Internet Resources

Harlem Renaissance Resources

N. Mellendorf, Librarian. Maine South High School, Library Resource Center, Park Ridge, IL
Last update: 2/11/08 Contact: nmellendorf@maine207.org