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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 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 450 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 include:

This vast and accessible database-all thoroughly cross-searchable and indexed and tagged by librarians and subject specialists-includes:

• New material from print reference titles and multivolume sets, such as Barack Obama, the New Face of American Politics; The Martin Luther King, Jr. Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage; Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers [2 Volumes]; and Icons of Hip Hop [2 Volumes].
• A deep backlist of reference books and monographs, many now available in electronic format for the first time
• Over 5,000 primary documents: manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, and other papers
• Over 3,500 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 Universities Press texts from the early 1800s to the early 1970s—classics in black scholarship.

• "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 25,000 terms
• Links to vetted Web sites
• Lesson plans, directly tied to associated primary source documents and images, and other classroom resources
• Over 3,000 photographs, maps, and other images.
• Timeline with over 170 pages worth of content, navigable by century, decade, and keyword.

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 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 The American Indian Experience Fall 2008 The Asian American Experience and more!