Experience Greenwood’s Award-winning
American Mosaic Databases
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• Greenwood’s groundbreaking American Mosaic suite
celebrates America’s multiethnic heritage through a host of
unique material.
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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 & Entertainment
Civil Rights
Immigration
Politics & Law
Science & Technology
Business & Labor
Folklore & Customs
Literature
Religion
Sports
Education
History
Music
Slavery
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:
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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.”