Africana Studies

A space dedicated to highlighting African American library collections, history, culture, arts and ideas.

The Digital Harlem website presents information, drawn from legal records, newspapers and other archival and published sources, about everyday life in New York City's Harlem neighborhood in the years 1915-1930.

Mapping the Stacks (MTS) aims to identify and organize uncatalogued archival collections that chronicle Black Chicago between the 1930s and 1970s, in order to increase their use by researchers and the general public. We work with varied kinds of artifacts: literary manuscripts and visual illustrations; rare books and home movies; correspondence and photographs; ephemera and tape-recorded sound.

Based at the library of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

SAAHF seeks to record the history of African American families who have lived in the Springfield area for several generations.

Includes brief essays and photographs outlining African American contributions to the U.S. Army.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library has just published a new website: Africana Age: African & African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century.

Provides an overview to genealogical research, census information, slave data, and other historical information useful for tracing one's ancestry.

A site dedicated to the great and often unrecognized leaders in the field of invention and innovation.

To access data on U.S. Colored Troops, go to “Regiments” then use the drop down menu for “states or origin” and select U.S. Colored Troops.

Now a static site, but still worth checking out. The Digital Divide Network seeks to “enable and facilitate the sharing of ideas, information and creative solutions among industry partners, private foundations, nonprofit organizations and governments.”

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture.

Features a wide assortment of audio clips, film clips, and multimedia presentations. The timeline traces two millennia of black history, and the browse features enable you to pinpoint the central people, places, topics, and events covered in black history.

Part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of knowledge concerning all aspects of chattel slavery and its destruction.

Publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects.

Focuses on the migrations, both forced and voluntary, of people of African descent. Historical texts and essays, photographs and maps outline migrations dating from the 1400s to the present.

"Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction."

Includes pre- and post-Civil War records as well as links to other related resources.

All communities in American society trace their origins in the United States to one or more migration experiences. America, after all, is "a nation of immigrants."

A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture.

Jackson Davis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, took nearly 6,000 photographs of African American schools, teachers and students throughout the Southeastern United States.