The Harvard Guide to African-American History

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Edited by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Leon F. Litwack and Darlene Clark Hine

Harvard University Press

Due/Published May 2001, 960 pages, cloth

ISBN 0674002768

This comprehensive 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.

Contents

Editors' Introduction
Acknowledgments

I. Historical Research Aids and Materials

1. Bibliography--Richard Newman
2. Reference Works--Barbara A. Burg and Randall K. Burkett
3. Internet Sources--Raquel Von Cogell
4. Manuscript Collections--Earl Lewis and Marya McQuirtir5. Primary Sources on Microform--Nathaniel Bunker
6. Newspapers and Selected Periodicals--James P. Danky
7. Government Documents--Debra Newman Ham
8. Oral History--Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
9. Art--Berry Kaplan Gubert and John Gennari
10. Music--Portial K. Maultsby
11. Photography--Deborah Willlis
12. Film and Television--Thomas Cripps

II. Comprehensive and Chronological Histories

13. Comprehensive Studies
14. 1492-1690--John Thornton
15. 1690-1772--Peter H. Wood
16. 1772-1831--Gary B. Nash
17. 1831-1865 (South)--Stephanie Shaw
18. 1831-1865 (North)--Richard J. M. Blackett
19. 1865-1877--Eric Foner
20. 1877-1915--Leon F. Litwack
21. 1915-1932--Joe W. Trotter
22. 1932-1945--Nancy L. Grant and Darlene Clark Hine
23. 1945-1968--Clayborne Carson
24. 1968-1999--John H. Bracey, Adam Biggs, and Corey Walker

III. Histories of Special Subjects

25. Women--Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
26. Geographical Areas
27. Autobiography and Biography--Randall K. Burkett, Leon F. Litwack, and Richard Newman

Contributors
Author Index