About This Product
Covering more than 500 years of the African-American experience, African-American History offers a fresh way to explore the full spectrum of African-American history and culture. Users can start their investigation of a topic with a video or slideshow overview, use the key content called out on the home page to find an entryway into the database, or dig deep into a subject or era through the Topic Centers. Read about key figures and events, examine famous speeches and other primary sources, and get context from the in-depth timelines. An important feature is the full cross-searchability across all the Infobase history databases for an even more comprehensive view of history.
Highlights:
- Comprehensive Coverage: With African-American History, users can delve deep into their topics or examine different perspectives through event and topic entries, slideshows, primary sources, images, tablet/mobile-friendly videos, general and topic-specific timelines, biographies of key people, original maps and charts, and more.
- Easy Access to Content: Featured content in African-American History is handpicked by our editors to inform research and provide guided entryways into the database, plus convenient links to key areas are at the top of every page.
- Editorially Curated Topic Centers: African-American History features specially selected content—including articles, sharable slideshows, videos, primary sources, and more—that provides a study guide for a particular subject or era.
Subjects covered include:
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- Abolitionist Movement
- Underground Railroad
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Great Black Migrations
- Harlem Renaissance
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
Eras covered include:
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- Africa, Colonization, and the Slave Trade: Beginnings–1819
- Compromise and Conflict over Slavery: 1820–1860
- The Civil War and Reconstruction: 1861–1876
- Segregation, Migration and the Beginnings of Protest: 1877–1928
- The Great Depression and the New Deal: 1929–1940
- World War II and the Start of Desegregation: 1941–1954
- Civil Rights Protest and Progress: 1955–1971
- Expansion of Opportunities: 1972–Present.
- Suggested Research Topics: Each Topic Center in African-American History includes handpicked selections showcasing the best resources for each topic—including in-depth overview essays—and providing guidance for research.
- Primary Sources: African-American History includes hundreds of primary sources, many with introductions that provide context and background.
- Videos, Images, Maps, and Slideshows: African-American History’s videos and original slideshows provide a fascinating visual introduction to key topics and themes.
- Biographies: Under “Featured People,” African-American History includes helpful lists of civil rights activists, trailblazing military figures, abolition leaders, Harlem Renaissance figures, major musicians, leading scientists, and influential writers. Each list includes dates of birth and death, a brief descriptor of the person’s achievements, and a link to relevant search results.
- Controversies in History: Editorially selected pro/con articles on many high-interest controversies can be found in African-American History, enabling researchers to grasp the essence and importance of every conflict and the reasons Americans debated them.
- Overview Essays: African-American History includes substantial and thorough overview essays giving extensive background on relevant historical topics and eras.
- Book Chapters: Chapters from authoritative print titles written by noted historians complement the thousands of encyclopedia entries, biographies, definitions, and other resources African-American History provides. Book Chapters allow for original thinking and are ideal for an in-depth study of a topic.
- Authoritative Source List: African-American History features a complete inventory, by type, of the extraordinary amount of expertly researched and written content in the database, including articles from a wealth of award-winning proprietary and distinguished print titles, primary sources, images, videos, timelines, and a list of contributors to the database—information researchers can trust.
- Curriculum Tools: This section of African-American History features writing and research tips for students and educators, including:
- Advice on analyzing and understanding editorial cartoons, primary sources, and online sources
- Guides for presenting research, including avoiding plagiarism, citing sources, completing a primary source worksheet, summarizing articles, and writing research papers
- Educator tools, including advice on preventing plagiarism and using editorial cartoons in class.
- Full Cross-Searchability: African-American History is fully cross-searchable with any combination of the other Infobase History Research Center databases to which your institution subscribes.
Features:
- Search by Common Core, national, state, provincial, International Baccalaureate Organization, C3 Framework for Social Studies, and College Board AP standards to find correlating articles
- Convenient A-to-Z topic lists
- Tag “clouds” for all content, linking to related material
- Searchable timelines, including a detailed general timeline, updated monthly, plus subject-specific and era-specific timelines
- Maps and graphs with descriptions
- Real-time, searchable Reuters® newsfeed
- Dynamic citations in MLA, Chicago, APA, and Harvard formats, with EasyBib export functionality
- Read Aloud tool
- Ability for users to set preferences for default language, citation format, number of search results, and standards set for correlations
- Persistent record links
- Search Assist technology
- Searchable Support Center with valuable help materials, how-to tips, tutorials, and live help chat
- Google Translate for 100+ languages.
Library Journal Best Databases
“…authoritative…very useful for students, teachers, and librarians.”
American Reference Books Annual
“…highly recommended…easy to use…extremely student-friendly.”
Booklist
“This is a very thorough online subject encyclopedia…The breadth and coverage make this a definite recommendation for those interested in Black Studies.”
MultiCultural Review
“…pulls together a variety of material and packages it into one attractive resource.”
Booklist
“…ambitiously aims to explore all aspects of the African American experience, from the past to the present…with impressive results. Even obscure topics ignored by other resources are covered here…makes some insightful connections…an excellent resource for school and public libraries and is highly recommended for them.”
Library Journal
“…a thorough subject encyclopedia in coverage…the synergy of all the various components…provides students and researchers with a rich web of information.”
Electronic Resources Review
“…a detailed overview…contains a vast amount of information….”
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African-American History: New Topic Centers
Six new subject Topic Centers have just been added to our African-American History database, offering specially selected content on milestone events and subjects throughout African-American history and complementing the Topic Centers on historical eras. These new, more focused Topic Centers cover the key, high-interest historical topics that students and researchers are most frequently searching for and studying. Read More ›
African-American History: New Topic Centers
Six new subject Topic Centers have just been added to our African-American History database, offering specially selected content on milestone events and subjects throughout African-American history and complementing the Topic Centers on historical eras. These new, more focused Topic Centers cover the key, high-interest historical topics that students and researchers are most frequently searching for and studying. The important subjects covered include:
- Abolitionist Movement
- Underground Railroad
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Great Black Migrations
- Harlem Renaissance
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
Each Topic Center includes:
- A selection of overview essays and articles that give broad coverage to the topic discussed and provide a solid background to these historic periods and movements
- Suggested research terms that yield productive search results and have been handpicked by our editors
- Videos and slideshows in the right rail that provide visual support to the topic
- Primary source documents most relevant to that particular time period
- Original maps and charts
- Timelines
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African-American History: Hundreds of New Primary Sources
Infobase’s latest update to its African-American History database adds approximately 300 new primary source documents, providing insight and firsthand looks into historical topics from the past several hundred years—perfect for document-based learning and strengthening critical-thinking skills. Read More ›
African-American History: Hundreds of New Primary Sources
Infobase’s latest update to its African-American History database adds approximately 300 new primary source documents, providing insight and firsthand looks into historical topics from the past several hundred years—perfect for document-based learning and strengthening critical-thinking skills. The new primary sources—ranging in format from letters and speeches to testimony, peace treaties, diary entries, reports, proclamations, and more—add great value by making history more immediate and real. Students and researchers can consult the Curriculum Tools menu for helpful tips on analyzing primary sources and completing a primary source worksheet.
Newly added primary sources include:
- New York Slave Code, 1702
- John Murray’s (Lord Dunmore) Proclamation to Liberate American Slaves, 1775
- Notice on a Runaway Slave and Her Children, 1858
- Louis Agassiz’s Letter on Interaction with African Americans, 1846
- Interrogation of John Brown, 1859
- Editorial on Reconstruction from an African-American Perspective, 1867
- Article on the Ku Klux Klan, 1868
- Statement on Political Violence against African Americans from African-American Citizens of New Orleans, 1888
- Medgar Evers’s Speech on a Lynching Investigation (excerpt), 1959
- Interview on Racial Attitudes in the Military, 1997
- John Lewis’s Speech at the March on Washington, 1963
- “What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States” by Mary Church Terrell, 1906
- and more.
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Additional Databases Added to Infobase Search API
With the abundance of electronic resources available today, many schools prefer to access their educational assets in one place. Federated search engines and other discovery tools allow libraries to do just that—easily search through multiple content sources in their catalog at the same time. Read More ›
Additional Databases Added to Infobase Search API
With the abundance of electronic resources available today, many schools prefer to access their educational assets in one place. Federated search engines and other discovery tools allow libraries to do just that—easily search through multiple content sources in their catalog at the same time.
The Infobase Search API (XML Gateway) allows our discovery tool partners to easily integrate the data from Infobase products into their federated search solutions for our shared customers. It provides a much-needed “communication bridge” between Infobase content and those discovery tools.
The databases that are currently part of the Infobase API include:
- Health Reference Center
- American History Online
- Modern World History Online
- African-American History Online
- American Indian History Online
- Ancient and Medieval History Online
- Science Online.
More Infobase products will continue to be added to the Infobase API.
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History Research Center: Exciting New Content Added
We are delighted to announce our latest update to our five Infobase history databases (History Research Center)—valuable new entries, articles, and videos. Read More ›
History Research Center: Exciting New Content Added
We are delighted to announce our latest update to our five Infobase history databases (History Research Center)—valuable new entries, articles, and videos.
More Than 3,300 New and Updated Entries and More Than 770 New Videos (9,500+ Clips)
History Research Center now features a wealth of new content on both timely and evergreen subjects from critically acclaimed Facts On File, Chelsea House, and Wiley-Blackwell series, along with videos from some of the most recognized and trusted film producers in the world. The new scholarly articles and video titles cover topics from immigration, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Latin American history to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Roman Republic, the medieval world, and many more. The updated content on American presidents, first ladies, vice presidents, and Supreme Court justices is ideal for providing background and context to support election-year studies!
New entries include:
- Immigration and Race Relations in America
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: The 1936–1944 Campaigns
- Political History of the Ancient World
- The Idea of a “Middle Ages”
- Syrian Civil War.
New videos include:
- The Constitution and Foundations of Government
- What Kennedy Didn’t Know: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
- Inside the Medieval Mind
- Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers His “I Have a Dream” Speech ca. 1963
- The Explorers: Five Europeans Who Redrew the Map of the World.
History Research Center includes five history databases, all fully cross-searchable and seamlessly integrated for a complete, single history resource. The databases included with History Research Center are American History Online, African-American History Online, American Indian History Online, Ancient & Medieval History Online, and Modern World History Online.
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