| The Harvard Guide to African-American History [With CD-ROM] Contributor(s): Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks (Editor in Chief), Litwack, Leon F. (Editor), Hine, Darlene Clark (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0674002768 ISBN-13: 9780674002760 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $182.66 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | Reference |
| Dewey: 973.049 |
| LCCN: 00053861 |
| Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library |
| Physical Information: 1.9" H x 6.96" W x 10.2" (3.56 lbs) 960 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks: - Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African American Studies at Harvard University.Litwack, Leon F.: - Leon F. Litwack is A. & M. Morrison Professor of American History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2007. He is also winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the American Book Award and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Film Grant.Gates, Henry Louis: - Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.Carson, Clayborne: - Clayborne Carson is Professor of History at Stanford University and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project.Nash, Gary B.: - Gary B. Nash is Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, and Professor and Director, National Center for History in the Schools.Hine, Darlene Clark: - Darlene Clark Hine is John A. Hannah Professor of History at Michigan State University.Burkett, Randall K.: - Randall K. Burkett is Curator of the African American Collections at Emory University.Danky, James P.: - James P. Danky is Newspapers and Periodicals Librarian at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the editor of Black Periodicals and Newspapers. |