Women's & Gender Studies

AASC contains over 7,500 articles from Oxford's reference program and includes 5 major encyclopedias; Africana; Encyclopedia of African American History,1619-1895 ; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; Black Women in America; and African American National Biography. This database also includes thematic timelines, primary source documents, and specially written commentaries on the personal and public histories of African Americans. Database access limited to 1 simultaneous user. Not exclusively primary resources.

More than 8,000 individual writers are represented in the collection, dating from 1675 to the present, and includes nearly 4,000 collections of letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies.

A comprehensive database of biographical information on more that 150,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.