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Oxford African American Studies Center ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY

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Description: AASC contains over 7,500 articles as well as primary source documents, images, maps, charts and tables, and timelines covering the African American experience. The core content includes:

  • Africana - presents an account of the African and African American experience in five volumes
  • Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 - documents the full range of the African American experience from the arrival of the black explorer, Esteban, who arrived with the Spanish in 1527, to the death of Frederick Douglass.
  • Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the present - offers the most extensive treatment of African American history into the twenty-first century
  • Black Women in America, Second Edition - explores the achievements and contributions of black women in America throughout history
  • African American National Biography - presents African American history through the lives of its people, ultimately offering over 6,000 biographies
  • Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Selected articles from the resources listed below on subjects ranging from the history of African American culinary culture to dance traditions to legal cases to race and racism are also included:
  • American National Biography Online
  • Oxford Companion to American Law
  • Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture
  • Oxford Companion to American Military History
  • Oxford Companion to the Body
  • Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
  • Oxford Companion to Music
  • Oxford Companion to United States History
  • Oxford Companion to World War II
  • Oxford Dictionary of Dance
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America


Coverage: Various Dates

Subject(s)
Gender, Minority Studies & Anthropology
History, Genealogy & Archives
Literature & Language
Military Science & National Security
Music, Film & Performing Arts
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African American Biographical Database
African American Song (Requires Headphones)
America's Historical Newspapers - Series I, II, III
American Civil War Research Database
American National Biography
Black Studies Center
Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources
Black Thought and Culture
History Reference Online
LexisNexis Access to Primary Sources in US History
Literature Resource Center
Nineteenth Century US Newspapers Digital Archive
Oxford Music Online
Oxford Reference Online : Humanities & Social Sciences
Oxford Scholarship Online
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Sabin Americana 1500-1926

Related Links
Civil Rights Digital Library
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