Embedded Files
Open Access Resources
The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases are the culmination of several decades of collaborative research drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world. The new SlaveVoyages website itself is the product of three years of development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, curriculum specialists, cartographers, computer programmers, and web designers, in consultation with scholars of the slave trade from universities in Europe, Africa, South America, and North America. The website is currently hosted at Rice University.
The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.
https://www.slavesocieties.info/
The Slave Societies Digital Archive (SSDA), directed by Jane Landers at Vanderbilt University, is dedicated to identifying, cataloging, and digitally preserving endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World. The largest collections come from the baptismal records of the Catholic Church, offering extensive data on African origins.
Mapping Blackness: A Digital Archive of Black Communities
**Carla LynDale Bishop’s ‘Mapping Blackness’ Selected as Recipient of MIT & Black Public Media Fellowship**
The story of Race, Migration and Mobility in Hartford
by Fiona Vernal
An innovative digital history project that combines maps and history detective materials with original oral histories
Coloredconventions.org is your go-to place for materials on Black organizing, 1830-1890--including digital exhibits, teaching modules, events, & news
Supplementary sit on Omeka:
Collected documents from the Colored Conventions (1830-1890s)
Blackpast.org, started by Dr. Quintard Taylor in 2004, is a dynamic webpage full of sources--historical documents, timelines, lists of Black officeholders, biographical profiles, & more.
Enacting archival justice in the digital era, this Freedpeople’s Digitization Project by Dr. Alisea Williams McLeod makes contraband camp registers publicly accessible.
New York Public Library's
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Guide
libguides.nypl.org/african-american-women-writers-of-the-19th-Century
The Citing Slavery Project provides a database of slave cases and the modern cases that continue to cite them as precedent. Explore citations now.
Mapping Project from URichmond by Scott Nesbit that maps emancipation events from Official Records of Civil War, newspapers, and the like. A related project of interest maps Union occupation in Emancipation Era in the South:
Open archive of artifacts from Americans' attics.
Everyday people are invited to contribute to History Harvest, in recognition that our public archives are still a work-in-progress. You can contribute to the inclusion of more voices and materials once relegated to the margins.
The Language of Marks project uses archives, art, design, data visualisation, analytics, and Machine Learning to recover and restore African identities and life stories which the slave trade sought to erase.
African American Lives
Discover the variety of African Americans experiences of the Civil War.
https://africanactivist.msu.edu/
The African Activist Archive Project is collaborating with activists across the U.S. who supported African liberation struggles to create this online archive of 13,800+ items and counting. (MichStateU)
Black Belt Brooklyn
Black Belt Brooklyn
Black Belt Brooklyn historicizes Black practices of vitality, mutual-aid, and institution building amidst municipal neglect.
These are genealogy links to African American online databases and indexes that may include birth records, marriage records, death records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Located in Harlem, this is one of The New York Public Library’s renowned research libraries-- a world-leading cultural institution devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture.
Underground RR Historic Places
Underground Railroad historic sites across 20+ states open to visitors
Underground Railroad Experiences
A closer look at the stories of freedom seekers
Extracts from legislative & county court petitions, etc. regarding slavery & freedom; part of larger UNC-Greensboro Digital Library on American Slavery that includes digitized slave deeds and notices.
Chronicling America: Library of Congress Historical Newspapers
A freely available and long-running means to search America's historic newspaper pages, 1756-1963.
Digital Data Sources and Tools on Inequality Statistics & Solutions
NCES* Tool Explores How Differential Learning Opportunities May Influence Achievement Gaps (*National Center for Education Statistics)
Professional Resources for Historians
h-net.org
aaihs.org
historians.org
oah.org
Scholarships & Opportunities
Scholarships & Opportunities
Our Mission Statement: To award the United for Change Memorial Scholarship to need-based graduating Black or African American seniors in good academic standing who possess a strong sense of social responsibility, are empathetic, passionate, and sensitive to the needs of others.
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