Overview

This new guide is the first to provide an inventory of the remarkably vast, interdisciplinary African and African American holdings of primary material residing in 22 Harvard libraries and museums. An invaluable source for academic research, the guide demonstrates the breadth, depth, range, and nature of Harvard's collection of primary African and Afriecan American materials, which includes artifacts, diaries/letters, manuscripts, maps, oral histories, photographs, political posters, sheet music, and works of art.

Full Product Details

Author:   Barbara A. Burg ,  Richard Newman ,  Elizabeth E. Sandager ,  Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.626kg
ISBN:  

9781573563390

ISBN 10:   1573563390
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 December 2000
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Foreword -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Introduction -- Richard Newman Entries List of Repositories Subject Index About the Authors

Reviews

?This remarkable research tool includes primary source material on the widest imaginable range of subjects dealing with African Americans and with Africa and available in Harvard University repositories....a substantial contribution to the advance of serious scholarship....This book should be in the hands of any person contemplating research on any topic on African Americans and or on Africa. Detailed descriptions of 845 collections of African and African American primary source materials.?-Dunbar on Black Books Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

?Essential for all reference collections in academic institutions, historical societies, state archives, and genealogy libraries.?-Choice ?This remarkable research tool includes primary source material on the widest imaginable range of subjects dealing with African Americans and with Africa and available in Harvard University repositories....a substantial contribution to the advance of serious scholarship....This book should be in the hands of any person contemplating research on any topic on African Americans and or on Africa. Detailed descriptions of 845 collections of African and African American primary source materials.?-Dunbar on Black Books Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin ?This unique work provides access to a wide variety of items, including among many others, art works, deeds and wills, plantation records, playbills, photographs, school catalogues, videos, and manuscript papers....The guide fills a significant gap....Conceived and compiled by an outstanding group comprising librarians, archivists, and African American subject specialists, this guide serves as an important reference source for students and scholars researching a too-long neglected aspect of American history.?-American Reference Books Annual Essential for all reference collections in academic institutions, historical societies, state archives, and genealogy libraries. -Choice This unique work provides access to a wide variety of items, including among many others, art works, deeds and wills, plantation records, playbills, photographs, school catalogues, videos, and manuscript papers....The guide fills a significant gap....Conceived and compiled by an outstanding group comprising librarians, archivists, and African American subject specialists, this guide serves as an important reference source for students and scholars researching a too-long neglected aspect of American history. -American Reference Books Annual This remarkable research tool includes primary source material on the widest imaginable range of subjects dealing with African Americans and with Africa and available in Harvard University repositories....a substantial contribution to the advance of serious scholarship....This book should be in the hands of any person contemplating research on any topic on African Americans and or on Africa. Detailed descriptions of 845 collections of African and African American primary source materials. -Dunbar on Black Books Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

This remarkable research tool includes primary source material on the widest imaginable range of subjects dealing with African Americans and with Africa and available in Harvard University repositories....a substantial contribution to the advance of serious scholarship....This book should be in the hands of any person contemplating research on any topic on African Americans and or on Africa. Detailed descriptions of 845 collections of African and African American primary source materials. -Dunbar on Black Books Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin Essential for all reference collections in academic institutions, historical societies, state archives, and genealogy libraries. -Choice This unique work provides access to a wide variety of items, including among many others, art works, deeds and wills, plantation records, playbills, photographs, school catalogues, videos, and manuscript papers....The guide fills a significant gap....Conceived and compiled by an outstanding group comprising librarians, archivists, and African American subject specialists, this guide serves as an important reference source for students and scholars researching a too-long neglected aspect of American history. -American Reference Books Annual ?Essential for all reference collections in academic institutions, historical societies, state archives, and genealogy libraries.?-Choice ?This unique work provides access to a wide variety of items, including among many others, art works, deeds and wills, plantation records, playbills, photographs, school catalogues, videos, and manuscript papers....The guide fills a significant gap....Conceived and compiled by an outstanding group comprising librarians, archivists, and African American subject specialists, this guide serves as an important reference source for students and scholars researching a too-long neglected aspect of American history.?-American Reference Books Annual ?This remarkable research tool includes primary source material on the widest imaginable range of subjects dealing with African Americans and with Africa and available in Harvard University repositories....a substantial contribution to the advance of serious scholarship....This book should be in the hands of any person contemplating research on any topic on African Americans and or on Africa. Detailed descriptions of 845 collections of African and African American primary source materials.?-Dunbar on Black Books Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

Author Information

BARBARA A. BURG is a research librarian, Research Services, Widener Library. RICHARD NEWMAN is the author of over 200 books, articles, and reviews in African-American studies. He is currently research officer at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University. Prior to this, he was managing editor of the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. His most recent book is Go Down Moses: Celebrating the African American Spiritual. ELIZABETH E. SANDAGER, Archivist, was formerly affiliated with the Harvard University Archives and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.

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