https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7 This includes primary source databases and digital collections related to Africa and the African Diaspora. en-us 2019-03-21 13:52:42 UTC 2026-02-26 02:01:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Folder.png kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343786997 This consists of three databases: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, and the African Names Database.]]> 2019-03-21 13:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343786997 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343786998 This includes links to various sites with digitized sources on African history.]]> 2019-03-21 13:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343786998 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343786999 DISA is a freely accessible online scholarly resource focusing on the socio-political history of South Africa, particularly the struggle for freedom during the period from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994.]]> 2019-03-21 13:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343786999 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787000 2019-03-21 13:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787000 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787001 2019-03-21 13:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787001 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787002 2019-03-21 13:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787002 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787003 This is a collection of primary source documents related to the conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia in the late 1970s (also known as the 1977-1978 Ogaden War or the Ethiopian-Somali Conflict).]]> 2019-03-21 13:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787003 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787004 This collection of photographs, taken by a British colonial administrator in Nigeria, documents the art and culture of various people groups in Nigeria.]]> 2019-03-21 13:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787004 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787005 2019-03-21 13:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787005 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787007 Freedom Narratives focuses on the enforced migration of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century. The biographical accounts included here include the testimonies and stories of individuals born in West Africa whose voices have long been silenced.]]> 2019-03-21 13:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787007 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787012 This is probably the most comprehensive research guide that exists, covering all time periods, countries, continents, and regions.]]> 2019-03-21 13:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787012 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787014 The history of imperialism is covered extensively on the world wide web. The sites listed below have been selected to demonstrate some of the high quality resources available. ]]> 2019-03-21 13:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343787014 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343790761 Users worldwide can find, in this virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.]]> 2019-03-21 13:58:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343790761 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343791334 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. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. ]]> 2019-03-21 13:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343791334 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343792670 Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.  These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA). ]]> 2019-03-21 14:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343792670 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343793209 From 1830 until the 1890s, already free and once captive Black people came together in state and national political meetings called "Colored Conventions."]]> 2019-03-21 14:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343793209 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343793871 Under the headline “Information Wanted,” the ads appeared in African American publications around the nation as newly freed slaves established their lives and tried to reunite with loved ones.]]> 2019-03-21 14:04:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343793871 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343794588 Anna Julia Cooper was a black educator, scholar, sociologist, and activist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.]]> 2019-03-21 14:05:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343794588 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343795231 2019-03-21 14:06:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343795231 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343795432 The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP) documents the contributions of women in the military and related service organizations since World War I. ]]> 2019-03-21 14:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343795432 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343795582 2019-03-21 14:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343795582 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343795918 2019-03-21 14:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343795918 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343796501 African Americans in the LGBTQIA community are included in this project.]]> 2019-03-21 14:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343796501 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343796904 This includes a few sources on black feminists.]]> 2019-03-21 14:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343796904 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343798066 This includes primary source material on every period of U.S. history.]]> 2019-03-21 14:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343798066 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343798139 This is an excellent resource for all periods and topics.]]> 2019-03-21 14:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343798139 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343798241 This site includes links to EVERY SINGLE historical society in the U.S. This is a great resource if you are studying a particular state or region.]]> 2019-03-21 14:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343798241 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343798386 This includes several trials of interest, including Dred Scott v. Sanford, Celia, a Slave, Brown v. Board of Education, and others.]]> 2019-03-21 14:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343798386 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343799710 A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75. ]]> 2019-03-21 14:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/343799710 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/352948482 Centered on a database of slave and slaveholder populations in Texas during the Republic era (1837-45), the Texas Slavery Project offers a window into the role slavery played in the development of Texas in the years before the region became part of the United States.]]> 2019-04-21 21:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/352948482 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/352948530 This is a collaboration among various repositories (including LSU, Tulane, the Historical Center at the Louisiana State Museum, etc.) to bring together digitally the personal and family papers of free people of color and public records that relate to the group from the repositories’ collections.]]> 2019-04-21 21:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/352948530 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/352948896 The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period.]]> 2019-04-21 21:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/352948896 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/352949028 These documents explain how black people traversed the bloody ground from slavery to freedom between the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 and the beginning of Radical Reconstruction in 1867.]]> 2019-04-21 22:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/352949028 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/352949156 This multi-media web site brings the vital history of Seattle's civil rights movements to life with scores of video oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, documents, movement histories, and personal biographies.]]> 2019-04-21 22:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/352949156 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/352949396 This has created a searchable database of well over eight hundred newspaper advertisements placed by masters and owners seeking the capture and return of enslaved and bound people who had escaped. Many were of African descent, though a small number were from the Indian sub-continent and a few were Indigenous Americans.]]> 2019-04-21 22:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/352949396 kristenepps https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/2649597181 This database contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. They reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth movement in Seattle during that period.]]> 2023-07-22 22:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenepps/nmjc8zgy23e7/wish/2649597181