African American History

Online collection of 7 major Oxford University Press reference works, including: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.); Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century; Black Women in America (2nd ed.); African American National Biography; Dictionary of African Biography; and Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, as well as selected entries from other Oxford University Press reference works.

Online version of the 3 volume original.

Online version of the 5 volume original.

Online version of the 6 volume original.

Online version of the 2 volume original.

2nd ed. Online version of the 4 volume original. Signed entries with bibliographies. Bibliographies accompanying the entries are not annotated. Includes a "Thematic Outline" that arranges the entries by broad topic, an annotated bibliography at the end, an annotated filmography at the end, a selection of primary sources, and a subject index.

Signed entries with bibliographies.

Online version of the 3 volume original.

Online version of the 2 volume original. Brief, signed articles with short bibliographies.

Online version of the 8 volume original. Part of the Oxford African American Studies Center. The standard reference work for biographical information on over 4,000 African Americans who have made especially important contributions to African American history and culture.

Covers primarily living persons and Americans, though some deceased and some non-Americans also included. Articles from this series are available online in Biography in Context.

3 vols. Covers all periods up to 2000.

Signed entries with primary sources and bibliographies. Although dubbed a "chronology", it's more like an encyclopedia with entries arranged in roughly-chronological order.