Title List
Scan a list of more than 520 titles that make up the core content contained in
the American Mosaic. View African American and Latino American titles by
publication date, author, topic, or title, and see what content will be added
in our upcoming enhancements.
Timeline
This feature employs content from Greenwood’s African American Chronology, by African
American Experience board member and scholar Kwando M. Kinshasa, featuring more
than 200 pages worth of content navigable by key word, decade, and century.
Image Index
Allows users to search through 2,500 photographs, illustrations, maps, and other
images by navigating our alphabetical index.
Primary Source
Index
Allows users to search through 5,400 quotations, speeches, legal cases, historic
essays, and other primary sources by navigating the site’s alphabetical index.
Landmark Documents
This link takes you to a selection of key Quotations, Speeches, Letters,
Articles, Laws, and Legal Cases in African American history.
Slave Narratives
Contains links to more than 4,000 interviews conducted by the WPA with former
slaves in the 1930s. The interviews appeared in forty-three volumes published
by Greenwood Press in 1978, 1979, and 2001.
Classic Texts
Contains links to more than 65 titles from the Negro Universities Press
imprint, which was acquired by Greenwood Publishing Group in the 1970s. Dating
as far back as 1828, many of these texts represent the foundations of African
American scholarship.
Audio Files
This category of primary source material contains a listing of links to music
and interviews, including testimony from former slaves.
Skills Center
The Greenwood Skills Center is designed to improve students’ writing skills and
to support the research process, from the conception of a topic all the way through
to the final paper or presentation. Interactive audio instruction, wizards, content-based
lesson plans, and other resources aim to make the research process less intimidating
for students and to help instructors and librarians teach critical information literacy
skills.