Useful Links

TDEP Recommended Web Sites

http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/index.html
This is the Geography of Slavery web site, part of the University of Virginia's expanding digital history project. Search hundreds of runaway slave advertisements from the colonial and early republic period by skill, gender, etc. Legible transcripts of the ads can be printed out; there are also images of original advertisements that can be viewed. Site includes lesson plan suggestions and a glossary of terms used in runaway ads.

http://www.thomasday.net/
This is the official web site of the Thomas Day Education Project, the creator and publisher of "Exploring the World of Thomas Day" and other instructional resources. It includes information about available instructional resources; about conferences and professional development activities; information about Thomas Day furniture and history; and links to relevant sites.

http://edsitement.neh.gov/
This is a web site sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) with links to scores of outstanding web sites in humanities subject areas that have been vetted by teachers for content excellence and instructional usefulness. This is a good place to begin your search for resources in African American history and culture on the web.

http://www.chipstone.org/
This is the site of the Chipstone Foundation, a furniture and decorative arts foundation, concerned with promoting and enhancing research in and understanding of American material culture with a focus on furniture of the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh
The official site for the Virginia Center for Digital History. Its purpose is to make " history in a digital format accessible, appealing, and useful." The site contains excellent African American history-related documents and resources.

http://www.pbs.org/africansinamerica/
This PBS web site covers the resource materials and information found in the documentary, "Africans in America."

http://docsouth.unc.edu/
An online archive of more than 1000 documents called "Documenting the American South." It includes an extensive collection of slave narratives and documents of the Church in the Southern Black community.

http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/
An extensive web site developed by genealogist Paul Heinegg, who has constructed and refined the genealogies of free blacks in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, and South Carolina.

http://blackhistory.eb.com/
This Encyclopedia Britannica guide includes audio clips of famous African American figures and links to other sites, including the Amistad Research Center and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard.

http://www.bondwomansnarrative.com/learn/contents/
The web site that accompanies the publication of an original manuscript of a novel written by an African American fugitive slave woman who pens the novel, " Hannah Crafts." The site describes the narrative and provides information on the extensive Educational Companion that educators can acquire to supplement the narrative. Topics addressed on the site beyond the publication include abolitionists, fugitive slaves, and the savagery of slavery.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
The Library of Congress's exhibit, "The African American Mosaic," includes historic documents and photographs, including material on the colonization of Liberia by free blacks in the early 1800s and the founding of places like Nicodemus, Kansas, one of the towns established by blacks after the Civil War.

http://africana.com/
A web site of African American history and culture affiliated with Microsoft's Encarta, edited by Harvard professors Henry Louis Gate, Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah, this site contains a wide variety of information, links, and resources.

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
This archival collection contains early photographs in sepia tone of African American women.

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad
This site, created by Scott W. Williams, a mathematics professor at the University of Buffalo, profiles notable contemporary black mathematicians and explores the history of mathematics in Africa.

http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory
The Internet African American History Challenge contains profiles of eleven prominent African Americans from the 19th century.

http://www.gale.com/schools
Click on "Free Resources," and then click on "Black History Month." This site contains 80 short biographies for children, including contemporary African American celebrities, historic figures, and people in the news.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/
Click on "Hypertexts," and then click on "W." Scroll down to American Slave Narratives to find thirteen interviews with former slaves conducted by the Works Progress Administration during the 1930s.

http://www.aawc.com/
Click on "Enter," and then click on "Black History Month" to view resources on black communities in Canada and books by black Canadians.

http://www.usinfo.gov/
Click on "Site Index" to access the State Department's International Information Programs' site, which includes bibliographies and archival and research material on African American history and culture.

http://odur.let.rug.nl/usanew/
American history from a Dutch viewpoint from the Colonial Period to the Present. This site provides an excellent account of Nat Turner's Rebellion.

http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/
This site includes American Slave Narratives gathered by the Federal Writers Project, a part of the administration of President Roosevelt ( 1936-1938.)

Additional Useful Web Links

The following web addresses and information are from an article by Eric V. Copage in the New York Times.

Africans In America
The Africans in America Web site is a companion to Africans in America, a six-hour public television series. The Web site is based upon years of extensive research undertaken by the television series team, a process which has uncovered and collected diverse and seldom-seen historical documents as well as fascinating and little-told stories. The site is structured into four parts, corresponding to the periods covered by the episodes of the companion television series.

The Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
Encyclopedia Britannica collection. Includes audio clips of Gwendolyn Brooks and Malcolm X. Links to other sites including the Amistad Research Center and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard.

The African American Mosaic
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture

The African American Odyssey
Library of Congress Collections. Highlights in Mosaic include photographs and historic documents that tell of events like the colonialization of Liberia by free blacks in the early 1800's and the founding of places like Nicodemus, Kan., one of the towns established by blacks after the Civil War.

Africana.com
Editors are of Microsoft's Encarta Africana, the Harvard professors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah. It is a full-fledged Web site -- with chat rooms, news and the like -- and includes content from the encyclopedia; it is not sponsored by Microsoft. "Africana.com may be perceived as a commercial site," Ms. Floyd said, "but it is backed by a team of scholars of African and African-American history. It has a great directory of links, and the breadth of their coverage is really great. You can browse by subject and find anything from the history of the W.P.A. to voodoo to Charlie Parker to great sports figures."

African-American Women: Online Archival Collections
Sepia-tone photographs appear on a screen that looks like faded parchment.

Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
Created by Scott W. Williams, a mathematics professor at the University of Buffalo, this site includes profiles of notable contemporary black mathematicians, as well as a historical look at mathematics in Africa.

The Internet African-American History Challenge
This site, one of my favorites, comprises eleven profiles of prominent 19th-century black Americans. The site doesn't simply tell you which answers you got wrong and give you the correct answer; it tells you where on the site you can read to discover the correct answer.

Gale Group: Black History
A selection of 80 short biographies for children on the website of the Gale Group reference publishing company. Subjects include contemporary celebrities, historic subjects, offbeat figures, and people in the news. The site also has a link to a timeline of black history, a quiz and links to twelve other black history and culture sites.

American Slave Narratives
In the mid-1930's, thousands of former slaves were interviewed under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration. This Web site includes text and audio clips from 13 of them.

Afro-American History
While this site may not be as lacquered as some of the others, it highlights interesting links. Click on Black History Month and you will be led to early black communities in Nova Scotia, for example, and books by black Canadians.

Gateway to African-American History
State Department's International Information Programs' site. Bibliographies, archival and research sites, presidential speeches and full-text versions of government reports, and articles on topics like the Amistad revolt, the civil rights movement and President Clinton's "National Conversation on Race."