Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resou

African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from

The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the United States. Harvard, too, has been indelibly scarred by slave

Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.