Experience Greenwood’s Award- winning American Mosaic Databases

- Greenwood ’ s groundbreaking American Mosaic suite celebrates America ’ s multiethnic heritage through a host of unique material. Provides a new prospective and clear understanding of the challenges & triumphs of America ’ s communities. Comprehensive coverage provides patrons with a wealth of book-length treatments and primary sources found nowhere else.

The first database in the suite is the award-winning African American Experience (2006). The second database is the critically acclaimed Latino American Experience (2007). The latest resource is The American Indian Experience (2008)

These resources support and encourage in-depth research in the following topic areas: Arts & EntertainmentBusiness & LaborEducation Civil Rights Folklore & CustomsHistory ImmigrationLiteratureMusic Politics & LawReligionSlavery Science & Technology Sports Women

Unique content for all American Mosaic resources include: –Hundreds of proprietary reference works and monographs –Landmark documents: treaties, laws, memoirs, letters, and legal proceedings –Origins: at-a-glance and in-depth information on history, politics, and culture of related countries –Timelines –Images: photo, maps, illustrations –Free access to The Greenwood Skills Center which provides valuable Research Tutors, Wizards, Lesson Plans & Professional Resources.

A wide-ranging, easy-to-use online collection on African American history and culture Contains 520 Greenwood titles Designed and indexed under the guidance of Andrew Jackson, immediate past president of the Black Caucus of the ALA and Director of the Langston Hughes Library in New York

Contains more than 3,500 interviews with former slaves indexed by librarians and fully searchable, nearly twice as many narratives as any other site! Audio clips containing interviews with former slaves. 6,600 Biographies 67 Negro Universities Press titles, classic texts in black scholarship, dating from the early 1800s to the 1970s. Over 5,000 Primary Documents Over 2,500 images

Highlights: Encyclopedia of African American Literature Encyclopedia of African American Folklore Icons of R&B and Soul Barack Obama: The Voice of an American Leader African Americans in the Media Today Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era Martin Luther King, Jr. Encyclopedia Writing African American Women African American Icons of Sport

A 2006 LJ Best Online Reference Selection!!! E-Views and Reviews - Nov. 15, 2006 by Cheryl LaGuardia Just How Good Is It On a Scale of One to Ten? “For school and public libraries, I rate it 11 for its extraordinary combination of content and design. For academic libraries it gets a 10…” The Bottom Line: “Enthusiastically recommended for school and public libraries everywhere, and strongly recommended for academic library collections, as well.”

The only full-text digital reference focusing on U.S. Latinos. Presents the rich histories & experiences of Latinos living in the United States Content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through Spanish and Mexican settlement, to the triumphs and challenges facing U.S. Latinos today. Created under the guidance of Advisory Editor Dr. Ilan Stavans to meet the research and curriculum needs of students, teachers, librarians, and researchers.

Highlights Over 200 volumes from Greenwood, Praeger, Arte Publico, Columbia University Press, and Indiana University Press, including award-winners such as: –Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature –Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures –Hispanic Literature of the U.S. –Encyclopedia of Cuba –The Newest Americans –The Mexican American Experience –Puerto Rico Past and Present –Notable Latino Americans Spanish Content: recipes, folktales, articles

Library Journal, June 15th 2007 Review by Cheryl LaGuardia How Does It Work? “ This is the most beautifully designed electronic product I've ever seen, as creatively functional as it is attractive.” How Good Is It? “ Based on content alone, this file gets a 7.5. But the sheer volume of material and its effective presentation bring it up to an 8.5.” Bottom Line: “ Recommended for public and school libraries for its online access to material long overdue for coverage by electronic publishers.”