The South in History - Selected Websites

African American History
Selected Websites

African American World
This site, sponsored by PBS, covers history, arts and culture, race and society, biographical profiles, and more. Features include a timeline of African American history from the 1400s on, links to public television readings and programs, and pro and con opinions on social issues.

American Memory - Library of Congress
Contains over 5 million images and other archived materials relating to American culture and history. Guidelines for citing and reproducing images are also included. Seventeen modules on African American history are included.

Blackpast
An Online Reference Guide to African American History. Includes speeches, photographs and many other primary documents.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search the contents of newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. The Newspaper Directory allows users to "search or browse the directory of newspapers published in a particular place and time." This site is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Documenting the American South
Over 1,200 primary sources documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It includes Southern literature to 1920; first-person narratives, including diaries, memoirs, ex-slave narratives, and travel accounts; the church in black communities to 1920; materials documenting life during the Civil War.

Images of African Americans From the 19th Century
This pictorial database features images selected from family photographs, early African American educational institutions, and the personal collections of various individuals. It is designed to highlight the social, political, and cultural life of the black Americans in the 19th century.

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
Companion site to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience program that "tracks the extraordinary stories of ordinary Americans - Southern and Northern, white and black - as they struggle to shape new lives for themselves in a world turned upside down" following the Civil War. Features primary source materials, maps, a timeline, video clips, a teacher's guide, a bibliography, related links, and a program transcript.