The African American Experience

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	Here’s a Whole New Way to Broaden Understanding from Greenwood Press [Releases in May 2006] The African American Experience www.greenwood.com/aae The widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life ever assembled, The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field. The African American Experience has two primary goals: to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 300 titles, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day. Topics covered in AAE Content Other Features The American Mosaic Like all Greenwood electronic products, The African American Experience will be regularly updated with new content, documents, and multimedia, to ensure that it continues to be a fresh, active, and dynamic resource for years to come. WHY NOT SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL TODAY? GO TO www.greenwood.com/aae Topics covered in AAE include History Biography Literature Arts Music Pop Culture Folklore Business Slavery Civil Rights Politics Sports Education Science Technology And more... Content This vast and accessible database—all thoroughly cross-searchable and indexed and tagged by librarians and subject specialists—includes: Brand new material from major multivolume print reference sets A deep backlist of reference books and monographs, many now available in electronic format for the first time A vast collection of hundreds and hundreds of primary documents: manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, and other papers Over 4,000 interviews with former slaves—the WPA slave narratives—from the acclaimed The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, now re-indexed and for the first time fully searchable Sixty-seven Negro University Press texts from the late 1700s to the early 1970s—classics in black scholarship. Other Features "In their Own Voices" audio clips, such as interviews with former slaves and music files Enhanced browse and search functionality, powered by an index of over 12,000 terms "People Finder" that connects users with important figures of the past and present Links to vetted Web sites Lesson plans, directly tied to associated primary source documents and images, and other classroom resources Hundreds and hundreds of photographs, maps, and other images. Like all Greenwood electronic products, The African American Experience will be regularly updated with new content, documents, and multimedia, to ensure that it continues to be a fresh, active, and dynamic resource for years to come.
	The American Mosaic *The African American Experience* is the first member of Greenwood's The American Mosaic family of reference databases. Future additions to the family—all available separately or fully integrated with one another—include: The Latino American Experience (Spring 2007) The Native American Experience (Spring 2008) The Asian American Experience (Spring 2009) And more! WHY NOT SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL TODAY? GO TO www.greenwood.com/aae

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