Historical Abstracts is a reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database offers annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to the present. Over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database. In addition to including the key historical journals from virtually every major country, it includes a selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history.
Comprehensive view of African thought, covering the intellectual tradition on the continent and throughout the diaspora. All major trends in African philosophy, political theory, and religion, as well as significant historical figures and social movements.
"Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest" is the title of a collection of sources in this digital archives.
Includes Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange, British Politics and Society, British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture, Children's Literature and Childhood, Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest, European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection, Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature, Photography: The World through the Lens, Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform, Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, and Women: Transnational Networks.
Struggles for Freedom: South Africa - digitized collection of thousands of documents and other primary sources.
"Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. There are three current components: African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes; African Plants; and Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa. The Aluka website includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka's partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides."--History and mission page.
Freely accessible online scholarly resource focusing on the socio-political history of South Africa, particularly the struggle for freedom during the period from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994.
African Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History by 
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought
Mistaking Africa : curiosities and inventions of the American mind by 
Qualitative Methods in Africana Studies by 
Africa: an Encyclopedia of Culture and Society by 
African History Through Sources, 1850-1945 by 