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Biographical Sources Online

These biographical sources present the historian with two very powerful tools: extensive bibliographies of primary and secondary sources appended to the entry of each biographee and the ability to search the full text of every entry for particular events, organizations, and places and thereby bring together information about numbers of people associated with those places and things.

CREDO Reference
Credo Reference provides an online reference and research collection with topic overviews. This collection includes various dictionaries and encyclopedias, as well as a broad range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art geography and law to technology.
Oxford African American Studies Center
Full text collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. The core content includes: Africana, which presents an account of the African and African American experience in five volumes, the Encyclopedia of African American History, Black Women in America, 2nd ed., and the African American National Biography.

Scheduling a Research Appointment

Find sources and talk through any aspect of the research process during a research appointment with the subject librarian for history, Amy Barlow. Research appointments can be scheduled for 15 minutes to 1 hour, in person or on zoom. To schedule a research appointment with Amy, use email or the link provided below.

Amy Barlow - Librarian for History
Associate Professor
James P. Adams Library
abarlow@ric.edu