African and African American History Sources

 

Indexing Sites | Government Sites | Archival Sites | Organization Sites | Individual or Specialty Sites

Indexing Sites

Brigham Young University - Historical Resources - United States

URL: http://www.byu.edu/acd1/fhsswww/html/departmt/history/namersub.htm

A listing, with links, of Web sources to historical resources relating to the United States and North America. Sites are listed by events (American Civil War, The Alamo, the Atomic Bomb, etc.).

 

Galaxy-Culture-Community

URL: http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Community/Culture.html

Links to various communities and cultures.

 

Directory of Historical Resources

URL: http://www.directnet.com/history/hddirect.htm

Links to a wide range of history-related sites.

 

H-Net Humanities On-line

URL: http://h-net2.msu.edu/

Links to history and other humanities research sites.

 

New York Public Library The Research Libraries

URL: http://www.nypl.org/research/research.html

Links to the four major research collections of NYPL.

Government Sites

 

The Library of Congress

URL: http://www.loc.gov/

This World Wide Web site allows the Library of Congress to offer the first small but important part of our unique American historical collections as well as our catalog, the text and images from major exhibitions, the THOMAS database of current information on the U.S. Congress, a Learning Page for K-12 students and teachers, and much more. Also offers access to key documents, films, photographs and sound recordings of our nation's history in the American Memory Historical Collections.

 

Library of Congress National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)

URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html

NUCMC, or the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, is a cataloging site with links to participant collections.

 

National Archives and Records Administration

URL: http://www.nara.gov:80/

NARA Provides to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of federal officials, and the national experience. Although documents may not be available electronically, their existence may be confirmed. There are several regional archival sites, in addition to the main facilities in Washington, D.C. and College Park, MD.

Archival Sites

 

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology

URL: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. Their narratives remain a peerless resource for understanding the lives of America's four million slaves. What makes the WPA narratives so rich is that they capture the very voices of American slavery, revealing the texture of life as it was experienced and remembered. Each narrative taken alone offers a fragmentary, microcosmic representation of slave life. Read together, they offer a sweeping composite view of slavery in North America, allowing us to explore some of the most compelling themes of nineteenth-century slavery, including labor, resistance and flight, family life, relations with masters, and religious belief.

Corbis Corp./Bettmann Archive

URL: http://www.corbis.com/

The Corbis Online Catalog : a sampling of the more than 700,000 digital images brought together by Corbis from premier photographers, museums, and private collections world wide. Corbis has acquired the famous Bettmann Archive of photographs.

 

Documenting the American South: Narratives on Slavery

URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/narratives.html

Debates over slavery dominated nineteenth-century America, and still generate significant interest today. Indeed, some of the Library's most read pre- and early-1900 imprints address the slavery question. To meet this demand, we digitize and encode works from the premier Southern collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (the UNC-CH).

Historical Text Archive - Mississippi State University

URL: http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/

Mississippi State University's site with links to texts from all periods and geographical areas.

 

The Indiana University Oral History Research Center

URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~ohrc/

The Indiana University Oral History Research Center is devoted to the collection, preservation, and interpretation of memories and oral traditions. The center takes a special interest in American history in general and the history of Indiana and the Midwest in particular. It seeks to preserve historical data that usually cannot be found in any written form and exists mainly in the memories of historical participants themselves. Since 1968, the center has collected over 1,400 recorded interviews on topics ranging from the history of Indiana communities to the evolution of American philanthropy. The center's archive is available to scholars, students, and others interested in oral history research.

 

Library of Congress WPA Life Histories, from the Folklore Project, Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

URL: http://rs6.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html

These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations. Pseudonyms are often substituted for individuals and places named in the narrative texts.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers PROJECT-Stanford University

URL: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/King/

Publishes an authoritative, annotated, fourteen-volume edition of King's most significant unpublished manuscripts, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project will provide a uniquely important foundation for future studies of King and his times. Sponsored by the Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc. A one-time registration is required.

Repositories of Primary Sources - University of Idaho

URL: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

A listing of over 1600 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness.

Organization Sites

 

American Council of Learned Societies

URL: http://www.acls.org/

American Council of Learned Societies is the preeminent non-profit private humanities organization in the United States. It is a federation of 58 national learned societies in the humanities and social sciences.

 

American Historical Association

URL: http://chnm.gmu.edu/chnm/aha/

The American Historical Association (AHA) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research. As the largest historical society in the United States, the AHA serves as the umbrella organization for historians. In this role, it conducts an active scholarly and professional program for historians interested in every period and geographical area. Among its 15,000 members are faculty at secondary schools and two- and four-year colleges and universities, independent historians, and historians in museums, historical organizations, libraries and archives, government, and other areas.

 

Organization of American Historians

URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~oah/index.html

"The object of the Organization shall be to promote historical study and research in the field of American history and to do all things necessary and proper to accomplish this purpose." Constitution of the Organization of American Historians Article II

Individual or Specialty Sites

 

Africa Information Center

URL: http://www.hmnet.com/africa/1africa.html

H-Net's Web Page for information regarding business and tourism in Africa. Links to specific countries are provided.

 

African Studies WWW (U. Penn)

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html

University of Pennsylvania's links to sites for the study of Africa.

 

Benin Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Benin.html

Official Web Page for the Republic of Benin.

 

Botswana Home Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Botswana.html

Web Page for the Republic of Botswana.

 

Burkina Faso Home Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Burkina.html

Web Page for the Republic of Burkina Faso.

 

Burundi Home Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Burundi.html

Web Page for the Republic of Burundi.

 

Cameroon Home Page

URL: http://www.compufix.demon.co.uk/camweb/

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Web Page for the Republic of Cameroon.

 

Cape Verde Home Page

URL: http://www.umassd.edu/SpecialPrograms/caboverde/capeverdean.html

Unofficial Home Page for the Republic of Cape Verde.

 

Central African Republic Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/CAR.html

Web Page of the Central African Republic.

 

Chad Home Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Chad.html

Web Page of Chad.

 

Congo Home Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Congo.html

Web Page of Congo.

 

Djibouti Home Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Djibouti.html

Web Page of Djibouti.

 

Egypt

URL: http://www.sis.gov.eg/

Web Page of the Egypt State Information Service.

 

Equitorial Guinea Home Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Eq_Guinea.html

Web Page of Equatorial Guinea.

 

Eritrea Network Information Center

URL: http://eritrea.org/EIB/control/main.html

Web Page of the Eritrea Network Information Center.

 

Ethiopia On Line

URL: http://etonline.netnation.com/

Web Page of Ethiopia.

 

Gabon Home Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Gabon.html

Web Page of Gabon.

 

The Republic of the Gambia Home Page

URL: http://www.gambia.com/

The Official Web Site of The Republic of The Gambia.

 

Ghana Home Page

URL: http://www.uta.fi/~csfraw/ghana.html

Web Page of Ghana.

 

Guinea-Bissau Home Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/G_Bissau.html

Web Page of Guinea-Bissau.

 

Kenya Web

URL: http://www.kenyaweb.com/

Web site, with links, that includes: Current events, geography, anthropology, history, the economy, government, tourism, business, education, agencies, Kenya's KTN News, Best Sites in Kenya, and Nairobi Business Directory.

 

Cote d'Ivoire - Ivory CoastWeb

URL: http://www.kenyaweb.com/ivoire/index2.html

Web site, with links, that includes: Current events, geography, anthropology, history, the economy, government, tourism, business, education, agencies, music, and sports.

 

Lesotho Home Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Lesotho.html

Web Page of Lesotho.

 

Liberia Page

URL: http://groove.mit.edu/LiberiaPages/index.htm

Web Page of Liberia.

 

Malawi Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Malawi.html

Unofficial Web Page of Malawi.

 

Mali Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Mali.html

Unofficial Web Page of Mali.

 

Mauritania Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Mauritania.html

Unofficial Web Page of Mauritania.

 

Morocco Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Morocco.html

Unofficial Web Page of Morocco.

 

Mozambique Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Mozambique.html

Unofficial Web Page of Mozambique.

 

Namibia Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Namibia.html

Unofficial Web Page of Namibia.

 

Niger Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Niger.html

Unofficial Web Page of Niger.

 

Nigeria Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Nigeria.html

Unofficial Web Page of Nigeria.

 

Senegal Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Senegal.html

Unofficial Web Page of the Republic of Senegal.

 

Sierra Leone Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/S_Leone.html

Unofficial Web Page of Sierra Leone.

 

The Republic of Sudan Page

URL: http://www.columbia.edu/~tm146/sudan.html

Web Page of the Republic of Sudan.

 

Swaziland Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Swaziland.html

Unofficial Web Page of Swaziland.

 

Tanzania Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Tanzania.html

Unofficial Web Page of Tanzania.

 

Uganda Page

URL: http://www.uganda.co.ug/

Web Page of Uganda.

 

Western Sahara Page

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/W_Sahara.html

Unofficial Web Page of Western Sahara.

 

Humanities: History: U.S. History: 19th Century: Slavery

URL: http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/19th_Century/Slavery/

Access to sites, via Yahoo, about the Slavery in the United States.

 

National Civil Rights Museum

URL: http://www.mecca.org/~crights/ncrm.html

Web Page of the National Civil Rights Museum. Includes links.

 

Excerpts from Slave Narratives

URL: Excerpts from Slave Narratives

Riveting first-hand accounts of slavery in the United States.

 

Negro Leagues Baseball

URL: http://users.aol.com/skshivers/index.html

History of the Negro Baseball leagues, plus other information, including interviews and news. Includes link to the Negro League Baseball Museum.