National History Day Research Resources
Reference Services Department
Topic: Harlem Renaissance
Created 10/2013
Print Resources Available at Denver Public Library include:
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The Harlem Renaissance in American History by Ann Graham Gaines,
Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2002.
Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History Of The Harlem Renaissance by
Laban Carrick Hill, Boston: Little, Brown, 2003.
The Harlem Renaissance by Jim Haskins, Brookfield, CT: Millbrook
Press, 1996.
The Power Of Pride: Stylemakers And Rulebreakers Of The Harlem
Renaissance by Carole Marks And Diana Edkins, New York: Crown
Publishers, 1999.
Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance by P. Stephen Hardy
& Sheila Jackson Hardy, New York: Children's Press, 2000.
A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, And
Performance In The Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927 by David
Krasner, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins; With a New Foreword by
Arnold Rampersad, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Harlem Renaissance by Kelly King Howes, Detroit: U X L, 2001.
Langston Hughes: The Harlem Renaissance by Maurice O. Wallace,
New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2007.
Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance, Edited by
Cary D. Wintz, Naperville, Ill: Sourcebooks, 2007.
Prospector and Interlibrary Loan
Prospector: http://prospectorhome.coalliance.org/
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Prospector is a unified catalog of academic, public and special libraries in
Colorado and Wyoming. For items not available at the Denver Public
Library, search here first. Items can take 1-2 weeks to arrive.
WorldCat: http://www.denverlibrary.org/content/didnt-find-it
Use this national and international catalog to search for items not available
at DPL or in Prospector. You must fill out a one-time Request It registration
to place Interlibrary Loan requests. These requests may take 2-3 weeks to
arrive.
Databases/Digital Resources
To access the Denver Public Library databases:
www.denverlibrary.org
Click on the “Research” tab
Click on “Databases A-Z”
Database suggestions:
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Student Resources in Context - Reference essays, magazine,
journal and newspaper articles, and primary source documents.
New York Times Historical Backfile on ProQuest - Full-text and
images from the New York Times from 1851 to three years
before current year.
Gale Virtual Reference Library – Full-text encyclopedias and
other sources.
America: History and Life – Articles (some full text) covering the
history and pre-history of the United States and Canada.
History Reference Center - Full-text articles, historical
documents, biographies, maps and photos.
Keywords for Catalog and Database Searching
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans -- Intellectual Life -- 20th Century.
African American Intellectuals -- New York (State) -- New York – Biography.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual Life.
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Primary Sources
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Student Resources in Context – Denver Public Library database that
includes, among other things, primary sources.
Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive – Full-text images of Hurston’s
manuscripts currently preserved in various libraries.
http://chdr.cah.ucf.edu/hurstonarchive/?p=_home
Carl Van Vechten Photographs Collection - 1,395 photographs taken by
American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), collected by
the Library of Congress. The bulk of the collection consists of portrait
photographs of celebrities, including many figures from the Harlem
Renaissance.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/vanvechten/index.html
Internet Resources
Some useful websites related to the Harlem Renaissance include:
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Harlem Renaissance – essays and videos featured on the
Bio.Classroom website.
http://www.biography.com/tv/classroom/harlem-renaissance#thr
Harlem Renaissance Multimedia Resource – essays, audio and video
clips, image gallery.
http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.htm
Harlem Renaissance – Essays exploring the artistic and cultural
legacies of the 1920s and 30s during the Harlem Renaissance from the
PBS series, PBS Newshour.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/entertainment/janjune98/harlem-renaissance3.html
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (Purdue OWL)
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
Annotated Bibliography
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/
Google Searching
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By adding [site:gov] or [site:edu] to a Google search, you will return only
government or academic webpages.
By adding [-.com] to a search, you will remove .com sites from your
returned results.
Put quotation marks around words "[any word]" to search for an exact
phrase in an exact order.
For more advanced Google searching tips, visit:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861
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