The Harvard Guide to African-American History [With CD-ROM]
by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publication Date: Jun 25, 2001
List Price: $204.50
Format: Hardcover, 960 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780674002760
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Parent Company: Harvard University
Hardcover Description:
This landmark guide covers research into every aspect of African-American life and work, offering a compendium of information and interpretation about almost 400 years of African-Americans’ experiences as an ethnic group and as Americans.
The first part of the Guide contains 12 essays on historical research aids, from traditional archival and reference materials to the Internet. The second and largest part presents comprehensive and chronological bibliographies, prepared by John Thornton, Peter H. Wood, Gary B. Nash, Stephanie Shaw, Richard J. M. Blackett, Eric Foner, Leon F. Litwack, Joe W. Trotter, Jeffrey Conrad Stewart, Nancy L. Grant, Darlene Clark Hine, Clayborne Carson, John H. Bracey, Adam Biggs, and Corey Walker. The third part contains listings of resources on the special subjects of women, prepared by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham; geographical areas; and autobiography and biography, prepared by Randall K. Burkett, Leon F. Litwack, and Richard Newman. A companion CD-ROM packaged with the book makes more than 15,000 bibliography entries available for computer searching.Books similiar to The Harvard Guide to African-American History [With CD-ROM] may be found in the categories below:
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