African and African American Studies  Tags: interdisciplinary_studies aaas african_and_african_american_studies  

Links to a variety of Africa-related resources. Maintained by Dr. Peter Limb at the University of Western Australia.

Includes the Africa Women's Bibliographic Database -- more than 21,000 citations from 1986 to present -- and the Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database, listing more than 28,000 citations drawn from 250 journals, 19th century to date.

A collection of multimedia materials on African history and cultures, with more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and over 50 hours of audio recordings. Maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Analysis of current events in Africa.

The African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania links to a variety of general African Studies sources.

Links to the University of Pennsylvania's informational pages on many of the countries in Africa.

Maintained by Joseph Roberts of the University of Utah, the site offers an index to resources covering the Middle East and North Africa.

Headline news, links to government and business sites, a virtual tour of Nairobi, and much more.

Online version of the daily newspaper.

Selected texts and images from the Ohio State Historical Society. These include manuscripts, pamphlets, photos, newspapers, and other periodicals. Maintained by the Library of Congress.

A guide to the institution's African-American collections. It covers the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere including Colonization, Abolition, and Migrations.

Collection of narratives, songs, government documents, and maps that illustrate over 200 years of African American achievement and struggle.

Prepared by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture the collection contains essays, poetry, fiction, and autobiographical narratives.

A sample of the 2,300 interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) writers. The complete transcripts are available in The American Slave:

Designed and maintained by Laura Crain, archivist, at Indiana University.

A selection of 17 interviews of former slaves conducted by members of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Also features an introductory essay, three lesson plans, and a modest annotated guide to related online resources

Official site of The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, an interdiciplinary academic program designed "to investigate, document, interpret, and teach about the American South".

Transcripts and digital images of over 60 documents concerning acts of resistance to slavery in Virginia between the American Revolution and the Civil War. These include Gabriel's Conspiracy, Nat Turner's Rebellion, and John Brown's Raid.

Among many other things, a collection of 19th literature and slave narratives maintained by the University of North Carolina.

The first release of the Douglass Papers, from the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division, contains approximately 2,000 items (16,000 images) relating to Douglass's life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant.

Offers full-text search capability to speeches and newspaper accounts in the period leading up to and through the Civil War.

Photos taken between 1915 and 1930 presenting African-American education at "colored schools" in the Southern US and also including views of Africa. Maintained by the Special Collections Department at the University of Virginia.

Located at Stanford University, this site will likely become the definitive collection of the civil rights leader's writings. Includes full-text primary documents (e.g., the "I Have a Dream" speech and the "I've Been To The Mountaintop" sermon),

Primary documents covering the social justice efforts of Earlham College, Goshen College, and Manchester College, as well as their affiliated historic peace churches (Quakers, Mennonites, and the Church of the Brethren) from the 1700s to the present.

Includes photographs and texts on African-American history. Examples: African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century; Images of African Americans from the 19th Century; Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community;

This National Park Service site contains information from a 1990 study of the Underground Railroad, including "a general overview of the Underground Railroad, with a brief discussion of slavery and abolitionism, escape routes used by slaves,

Offers primary sources from the period just before the Civil War. It includes transcripts of original slave narratives, links to maps, church records, military records, letters, diaries, newspapers, public records, and church records gathered from

A database of runaway and captured slave advertisements that features the full transcripts and images of runaway and captured slave ads placed in Virginia newspapers from 1736 to 1790. Maintained by Thomas Costa of the History Department