African American Studies Center

Tarver Library has implemented an extended University-wide trial of African American Studies Center from Oxford University Press. This database can be accessed from the Tarver Library database listing page. The trial of African American Studies Center will run through September 30, 2008.

"The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 8,000 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes the highly acclaimed Africana, which presents a powerful account of the African and African American experience in five volumes. The new 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. A forthcoming companion set, the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, offers the most extensive treatment of African American history into the twenty-first century and will be fully available online in 2009. Bringing the contribution of African American women to the fore is the fascinating three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine. And finally, the much-anticipated African American National Biography African American history through the lives of its people, ultimately offering over 6,000 biographies. New entries from this landmark work are continually added as part of the regular update program, with over 1,200 already online."

(Excerpt from "About AASC" http://www.oxfordaasc.com/public/about.jsp)