Africans in America Web Site
This site features a major collection of materials, gathered as part of the extensive scholarship, research, and production effort mounted for the series: documents, images, biographies, and scholars' commentaries. This resource bank provides a broad view of pre-Civil War history: one that tells how both Africans and Europeans struggled to define freedom and how together they created a new nation. It is organized according to the four time periods of the Africans in America series programs. An historical essay provides an orientation to the relevant people, events, and issues for each period. An online teacher's guide includes lesson plans for each period which model how teachers can integrate this 400 item resource bank with classroom activities.School District of Philadelphia's African and African American Studies Department Web Site
This site is the home page for the African and American Studies Department, founded in 1970 to assist schools, administrative offices, and community organizations with the development and implementation of appropriate African American studies programs. It features a wealth of lessons for teaching African and African American history and culture in the 21st century.Temple University Libraries: Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection
This site provides provides an overview of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, described as "one of the nation's leading research facilities for the study of the history and culture of people of African descent." The collection includes more than 30,000 items, including: books, manuscripts, sheet music, pamphlets, journals, newspapers, posters, photographs, etc. There are also special collections. Among the primary source materials are the principal papers of William Still. One of the special collections houses scrapbooks on the Abolitionist Society of Pennsylvania. Another, the Samuel Holmes Collection, contains hundreds of items which document black social life in Philadelphia over the past three hundred years. There is also an A.M.E. church collection. Click here for a bibliography of selected references and archival materials pertaining to the African-American heritage in Philadelphia. Click here to access a list of links to Afro-American/African resources on the World Wide Web, selected African/African American Studies Programs, electronic journals, and related libraries and research centers, associations and organizations, and black colleges and universities.African-American Resources
This site provides a descriptive list of links to resources pertaining to African-American studies, such as a bibliography of different media for teaching about the Amistad, and Library of Congress collections on the slave trade and plantation life. The site is connected with the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania.African-American Studies
This site, associated with Rutgers University's African-American studies program, furnishes links to remote online catalogs located at other major public and university libraries with large African-American resource holdings. It also offers links to a variety of other academic and non-academic sites across the country.Exploring A Common Past: Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad
This site, developed by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, provides an historical context for understanding what is meant by the "underground railroad." It also cites an array of resources for researching the Underground Railroad, and provides guidelines and key questions for interpreting research results. One very interesting feature of this site is a complete case study of one family's Underground Railroad escape experiences which has been included to "illustrate the possibilities for documenting cases of Underground Railroad activity."The African American Mosaic
This site is a rich resource guide to the Library of Congress' extensive African American collections.WHYY Across the Generations: A Legacy of Love
WHYY has prepared this website as a tool to help those interested in learning more about the history of their family and community.