The Harvard Guide to African-American History

Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Editor-in-Chief

Leon F. Litwack and Darlene Clark Hine, General Editors Randall K. Burkett, Associate Editor

    Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    "On the Evolution of Scholarship in Afro-American History," by John Hope Franklin

    Editors' Introduction

    Acknowledgments

    I. Historical Research Aids and Materials

    1. Bibliography * Richard Newman

    2. Reference Works * Barbara A. Burg and Randall K. Burkett

    3. Internet Sources * Raquel Von Cogell

    4. Manuscript Collections * Earl Lewis and Marya McQuirtir

    5. Primary Sources on Microform * Nathaniel Bunker

    6. Newspapers and Selected Periodicals * James P. Danky

    7. Government Documents * Debra Newman Ham

    8. Oral History * Elinor Des Verney Sinnette

    9. Art * Berry Kaplan Gubert and John Gennari

    10. Music * Portial K. Maultsby

    11. Photography * Deborah Willlis

    12. Film and Television * Thomas Cripps

    II. Comprehensive and Chronological Histories

    13. Comprehensive Studies

    14. 1492-1690 * John Thornton

    15. 1690-1772 * Peter H. Wood

    16. 1772-1831 * Gary B. Nash

    17. 1831-1865 (South) * Stephanie Shaw

    18. 1831-1865 (North) * Richard J. M. Blackett

    19. 1865-1877 * Eric Foner

    20. 1877-1915 * Leon F. Litwack

    21. 1915-1932 * Joe W. Trotter

    22. 1932-1945 * Nancy L. Grant and Darlene Clark Hine

    23. 1945-1968 * Clayborne Carson

    24. 1968-1999 * John H. Bracey, Adam Biggs, and Corey Walker

    III. Histories of Special Subjects

    25. Women * Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

    26. Geographical Areas

    27. Autobiography and Biography * Randall K. Burkett, Leon F. Litwack, and Richard Newman

    Contributors

    Author Index

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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University.

Leon F. Litwack is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, where he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2007. He also received a Pulitzer Prize in History, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the American Book Award. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Film Grant.

Darlene Clark Hine is John A. Hannah Professor of History, Michigan State University.

Randall K. Burkett is Curator of the African-American Collection, Emory University.