African American National Biography Project
General Editors: Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Covering a broader range of African American lives than ever before, the African American National Biography presents history through a mosaic of the lives of 4,100 individuals, some known throughout the world and others all but forgotten, illuminating the abiding influence of African Americans on the life of this nation through the immediacy of personal experience.
The AANB continues to look for writers for entries to appear in regular updates to its online edition.
We look to include not only great and famous African Americans, but a selection that will be representative of diverse range of African Americans in all fields, from all periods of North American history, and from all stations of life—activists, writers and journalists, slaves, sharecroppers, domestic workers, musicians, performers, singers, politicians, government workers, judges, lawyers, ministers, preachers, and other religious workers, educators, athletes, sports figures, actors, directors, filmmakers, doctors, nurses, artists, photographers, business people, entrepreneurs, military personnel, scientists, philanthropists, dancers, frontiersmen and women, cowboys, legendary figures, inventors, aviators, explorers, astronauts, and more.
Executive Editor: Steven Niven: sjniven@fas.harvard.edu; 617-359-1470
Address:
104 Mt. Auburn Street, Floor 3R
Cambridge, MA 02138
The African American National Biography, a joint project of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press, was published in an eight-volume print edition of 4081 entries in January 2008.
-To read more on the release of The African American National Biography, click here.
-To purchase a copy of The African American National Biography, click here.
-You may also view AANB entries online at Oxford University Press’s African American Studies Center, here:
-To see lists of available entries, please visit the search area of our website:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aanb/SHTML/search1.shtml
To sign up to write an entry, please supply a CV and writing sample and contact Adam Rosen at: aanbonline@oup.com
For administrative issues related to the AANB, especially payments and the status of entries, please contact us at aanbonline@oup.com