Exploring more than 500 years of the African-American experience, African-American History Online offers many exciting features, including more than 85 historical videos that bring history to life. The extensively hyperlinked entries in this comprehensive database include subject entries, primary sources, images and videos, general and topic-specific timelines, biographies, maps and charts, and more. Users can search for entries by keyword or phrase or browse by topic and by time period-from eight historical periods relevant specifically to African-American history. In addition, biographies can be browsed by occupation and primary sources by type.
Highlights:
Complete Coverage: more than 500 years of the African-American experience
Overview Era Essays: overview essays outlining time periods
Unique Learning Centers: specially selected entries on different eras of African-American history to help users find a starting point for their research
Comprehensive Source List: full and partial text from hundreds of print titles.
Features:
Biographies
Events and topics
Primary sources
General timeline of more than 500 years of African-American history, updated monthly
Subject-specific timelines
Images and videos
Maps and charts
The Exhibit of American Negroes, Paris 1900: a reconstruction of highlights from an exhibit at the 1900 Paris World's Fair by W.E.B. DuBois
"Focus On" feature
"Editor's Selection of the Month"
Dictionary
"Did You Mean...?" search feature
Persistent record links.
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