Subject Guide » Africana /African American Studies
Web Resources
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Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet ResourcesThis gateway site offers links to over nearly 50 individual countries, a number of regions, and over 35 topics of interest to scholars in sub-Saharan Africa. The links are annotated, and the site is maintained by the Stanford University Libraries.
Africa-Related LinksProvides quality links to a wide variety of resources covering the African continent; maintained by the African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Africa: World-Wide Web Servers
A great starting point and Reference source for the WWW servers of Africa.
African American HistoryConnects browsers to sites about African American history; hosted by the Historical Text Archives project founded in 1990 at Mississippi State University to aid in the study and teaching of history.
African American OdysseyThis virtual exhibition by the Library of Congress showcases their incomparable African American collections, displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings.
African-American History: A Guide to Resources & Research on the WebHosted by the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, this site follows the events of African American history through general sources, culture, black nationalism, civil rights, the Harlem Renaissance, slavery and slave narratives, and women. Includes extensive biographical links to several notable black leaders.
African-American WomenContains on-line archival collections about African American women at the Duke University Library.
Afro-American HistoryHosted by the African American Web Connection, click on the History box on the left hand side of the page to access excellent links to sites about African American history.
Center for Electronic Resources in African StudiesHosted by the University of Iowa, this site is a virtual space of high quality scholarly electronic resources in text, multimedia, and interactive formats.
Images of African Americans in the 19th CenturyHosted by the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this site offers around 500 archival photographs, drawings and postcards of African Americans from the post-Civil War period through the early years of the twentieth century. The collection can be searched by broad topics or keywords.
Index on AfricaPrimary a portal, this site maintained by the Norwegian Council for Africa presents a sizable compilation of Web links arranged by country, broad topics, and various news sources, both within and outside of Africa.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers ProjectHosted by Stanford University, this site contains biographical information about Dr. King, primary documents such as speeches, sermons and letters, sound files, historical photographs, lesson plans for teachers, and much more.
Michigan Electronic Library: African Americans
This site is the first library-wide resource guide to the state's African-American collections.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureThis is a research unit of The New York Public Library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world, with emphasis on blacks in the Western Hemisphere. Includes access to digital collections, historical photographs, online exhibitions, and much more.
University of Pennsylvania African Studies CenterThis comprehensive site presents links to direct news sources on Africa, a multimedia library, K-12 resources, and "Africa Web Links," an annotated directory of Internet resources.
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