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Oxford African American Studies Center. Welcome. Home. The Online Authority on the African American E xperience. Featured Content. Browse. Search.

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  1. Oxford African American Studies Center Welcome Home The Online Authority on the African American Experience Featured Content Browse Search Welcome to a guided tour of Oxford African American Studies Center. Please click the forward arrows to advance to the next section or click on a topic in the left-hand table of contents to skip ahead. Revisit the previous section by clicking the back arrow. Tools and Resources Updates For More Information Next

  2. What is Oxford African American Studies Center? • The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. • The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 10,000 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes: • Articles from: Africana, Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895, Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, Black Women in America, Second Edition, African American National Biography • Timelines, lesson plans, family trees, and interviews with notable figures • Content updated three times per year Welcome Home Featured Content Browse Search Tools and Resources Updates For More Information

  3. Jump straight to expertly written lesson plans, profiles of countries that have influenced African and African-American heritage, and the full archive of Focus On essays Welcome Home • Access usage statistics and the Librarian Resource Center Featured Content Browse • Perform specific searches or peruse different types of available content Search • Browse different categories of content within Oxford African American Studies Center Tools and Resources Discover more about the texts available or peruse added or updated content Updates For More Information

  4. Welcome Home Featured Content Browse Search Tools and Resources • Focus On essays provide an in-depth exploration of issues of topical importance Updates For More Information

  5. Welcome Home Featured Content • Enrich your understanding of topical items with engaging photo-essays Browse Search • Access an in-depth discussion of topical items, complete with links into relevant articles on the site Tools and Resources • Access the full archive of previous Focus On essays Updates For More Information

  6. Welcome Home Featured Content • A Letter from the Editor addresses topical content and directs users to content within Oxford African American Studies Center Browse Search Tools and Resources Updates For More Information

  7. Welcome Home • Expert guest scholars write feature essays on items of topical note with links to enriching sources within African American Studies Center Featured Content Browse Search Tools and Resources Updates For More Information

  8. Welcome Home • View all timelines together, or choose to compare only a few Featured Content • Click on links to related content within African American Studies Center • Easily navigate to a particular year, or scroll through the years from 4 million B.C.E. to the present day Browse • Seven distinct but related timelines show how events and people throughout African and African-American history are related Search Tools and Resources Updates For More Information

  9. Welcome Home Featured Content Browse • Henry Louis Gates Jr. interviews prominent people in the African American community Search Tools and Resources Updates For More Information

  10. Welcome Home • Filter results by era or a sophisticated taxonomy of editorially selected topics Featured Content Browse Search • Browse by category or peruse all content • Print or email the results • Navigate through the results list Tools and Resources • Entry information: title, type, image/map/multi-media inclusion, and source Updates • All content can be viewed together or filtered by type For More Information

  11. Welcome Home Featured Content Browse • Search for particular phrases in the entry title, text, or author Search Tools and Resources • Or narrow your results by editorially-suggested era or subject category • Perform any of five advanced searches to narrow your results Updates For More Information

  12. Welcome Home Featured Content Browse • Like birth or death dates and places, or regions from which the person hails… Search Tools and Resources • Or gender and editorially-selected profession • Find biographies of people who fit certain criteria Updates For More Information

  13. Welcome Home Featured Content Browse • Utilize the same advanced search filters in multimedia videos, images, maps, and charts as in longer text-based entries Search Tools and Resources Updates For More Information

  14. Welcome Home Featured Content Browse • Search only for certain types of primary sources, or only sources originally published in or between particular years Search • Or search for words and phrases in the document itself or in the expert commentary Tools and Resources Updates For More Information

  15. Welcome Home Featured Content Browse Search • Search only the bibliographic information in an entry Tools and Resources Updates For More Information

  16. Highlights the contributions of hundreds of women whose lives demonstrate the centrality of black women to American society • Each lesson plan highlights the resources available on Oxford African American Studies Center and provides discussion questions, supplementary reading suggestions, and a summary of the topic for lecture preparation Welcome • Over 90 entries on countries, territories, and regions across the globe that have been central to the history of Africans and African Americans Home • Tips, resources, testimonials, and other tools that can help teachers to enhance their students' understanding of the African American experience Featured Content Browse • Chart some of the most accomplished African American families while highlighting the reference resources available on Oxford African American Studies Center • The entire collection of Focus On entries • Expand the scope of your research using extensive bibliographies, organized by subject category for quick, focused access, from Africana and Black Women in America Search • A list of editorially-selected links, organized by subject, to outside sources relevant to the African-American experience • The Learning Center offers resources for novice to senior researchers and professors • A catalogue of interviews with prominent African Americans Tools and Resources Updates For More Information

  17. Welcome • Recent Updates: • Homepage redesign: • Increased discoverability of • content • More intuitive interface • Browse by content type (biographies, subject entries, primary sources, images and multimedia, maps, charts and tables) • New primary source documents with accompanying commentary • New biographies and lesson plans Home Featured Content Browse Search Tools and Resources Updates For More Information

  18. Discover More About: • The editors and editorial board • Content • Most recent updates • Technical questions • Fliers and informational materials • Schedule a live demonstration Welcome Home Featured Content Browse Search Thank You! To learn more about Oxford’s suite of award winning online products, please visit Tools and Resources Updates For More Information Back

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