"African History from the Dawn of Time." It "tells the history of the continent from an African perspective." Includes audio narratives from a BBC radio program to tell this history. Not all primary sources, but a good overview of the continent's history. From the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).
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A collection of over 3,000,000 reference entries on topics from all the major
academic subject areas serving as a great starting point for research. Full text articles plus images, audio files, and videos. Credo Reference also includes cross-references to other full text titles containing related information.
Includes more than 450 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, and atlases in all fields. Sources are selected from 100 major publishers, such as ABC Clio, Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Greenwood, Penguin, Routledge, Sage, Thames and Hudson, Wiley, and more.
Time Period: ~1400-present (constantly updating, but usually a little behind present events)
Location: North America
A collection of scholarly resources focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes 8,000 articles from Oxford reference sources, over 1,750 images, more than 300 primary sources with specially written commentaries, and nearly 150 maps. 150 charts and tables offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts. Licensed for only one user at a time. You may have to choose the University of the South as your institution after reaching the site in order to gain access.
Includes the full text of the following Oxford reference sources: - Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition - 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 Also, contains selected content from other Oxford publications.
Contains 187 fully-indexed, cross-searchable reference works published by Oxford University Press. The collection includes subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas.
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