History Resources
1619 Project
The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
In the late 1930s, the WPA conducted interviews with formerly enslaved individuals. This site provides transcripts and an annotated index.
Black History Pages
Directory of black history websites.
Black History Resources
A Google Drive resource library.
BlackPast.org
Dedicated to providing the inquisitive public with comprehensive, reliable, and accurate information concerning the history of African Americans in the United States and people of African ancestry in other regions of the world. It is the aim of the founders and sponsors to foster understanding through knowledge in order to generate constructive change in our society.
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements
The North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project provides online access to all known runaway slave advertisements (more than 5000 items) published in North Carolina newspapers from 1751 to 1865.
Queens College Civil Rights Archive
Documents the civil rights work by Queens College students in the 1960s.
Slave Voyages
Interactive collection based on archival materials on the slave trade, including maps, timelines, and more.
Umbra Search: African American History
Guide to African American history and culture from libraries and archives across the country.
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
We have collected some resources to guide you through this historical period.
Introduction
A Brief Guide to the Harlem Renaissance: Poets.org offers brief biographies and poems of poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance: From the Poetry Foundation. A brief article outlining the Harlem Renaissance.
A New African American Identity: The Harlem Renaissance: From the Smithsonian Museum.
A History of the Harlem Renaissance: From History Today.
From the Library of Congress
Harlem Renaissance and the Flowering of Creativity: An overview of the Harlem Renaissance and some of its leading figures.
The Harlem Renaissance Guide: A comprehensive collection from the Library of Congress of African American writing, music, and art of the 1920s and 1930s.
The Harlem Renaissance - History.com
The site contains information on the great migration, important people of the Harlem Renaissance, and the impact the Renaissance had on the life and culture of African Americans.
Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930
Unlike most studies of Harlem in the early twentieth century, this project focuses not on black artists and the black middle class, but on the lives of ordinary African New Yorkers. It does so primarily by systematically exploring a sample of legal records and black newspapers.