Guide to African American and African Primary Sources at Harvard University

Book info: Guide to African American and African Primary Sources at Harvard University (Hardcover, 304 pages) – Greenwood, 2000. Language: English.

This new guide is the first to provide an inventory of the remarkably vast, interdisciplinary African and African American holdings of primary material residing in 22 Harvard libraries and museums. An invaluable source for academic research, the guide demonstrates the breadth, depth, range, and nature of Harvard's collection of primary African and Afriecan American materials, which includes artifacts, diaries/letters, manuscripts, maps, oral histories, photographs, political posters, sheet music, and works of art. About the Author

BARBARA A. BURG is a research librarian, Research Services, Widener Library.

RICHARD NEWMAN is the author of over 200 books, articles, and reviews in African-American studies. He is currently research officer at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University. Prior to this, he was managing editor of the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. His most recent book is Go Down Moses: Celebrating the African American Spiritual.

ELIZABETH E. SANDAGER, Archivist, was formerly affiliated with the Harvard University Archives and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.