Research Guides: HIST 100.04: Black History is Labor History: Key Sources

3 things to remember

Use reference sources to get broad overviews of topics, and pointers to primary and secondary sources.

Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive collection of scholarship that focuses on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Contains scholarly articles, reference works, primary sources, timelines, biographies, images, maps, charts and tables, and film clips, among many other things.

The African American experience: an historiographical and bibliographical guide
Call Number: E184.65 .A37 2001 and Online
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Harvard guide to African-American history by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, editor-in-chief
Call Number: REF : E185 .H326 2001
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Essential reference source for transnational black history.
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history : the Black experience in the Americas
Call Number: E185 .E54 2006
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Black Women in America: A Historical Encyclopedia by Darlene Clark Hine, editor in chief
Call Number: Ref E185.86 .B542 2005 (3 vols.)
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This revised second edition includes biographical and topical entries dealing with African African Women. Many entries include extensive bibliographies.

Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
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This is a key starting place for research in several different fields, providing bibliographies on current scholarship on topics from the social sciences and humanities.
Oxford Handbooks This link opens in a new window
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High quality treatments of major topics, written by major scholars in the field and pointing toward key literature.

Slavery by Another Name (Academic Video Online)
Sam Pollard (Director), Sam Pollard (Producer), Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) Studios (Producer), (2012). Slavery by Another Name. Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service. [Streaming Video]. Retrieved from video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/slavery-by-another-name database

HIST 100 Google Form - primary and secondary sources
Everyone should fill out a copy of this form. You can email the results (i.e. the searches you do today) to yourself at the end. Make sure you're logged in with your carleton.edu email address.
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