CULTURE
Documenting
the American South
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/
This is a collection of primary materials documenting the cultural history of
the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. Readers can obtain primary
resources on Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period
through the first decades of the 20th century, including slave narratives.
African-American
Women - On-line Archival Exhibits at Duke University
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
This is a historical collection of letters and memoirs by African-American women
from the 1800's. This unique collection, administered by Duke University, includes
slave letters.
RESEARCH
The
Australian Museum
http://www.austmus.gov.au/
This is one of Australia's oldest scientific and cultural institutions. It aims
to be an encyclopedic warehouse of cultural and natural history and to expand
knowledge of the natural history of Australia and the nearby Pacific region.
SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY
Thomas
A. Edison Papers
http://edison.rutgers.edu/
The Thomas A. Edison Papers is a documentary editing project with the goal of
organizing and publishing papers of Thomas Alva Edison. The site makes available
some of the materials from those papers, as well as maps and images from Edison's
life.
Information
Age
http://photo2.si.edu/infoage.html
This interactive site will give you a look at the people and technology of the
beginnings of modern communications technology. See the original telegraph machine,
the first Atlantic cable, and the first telephone.
HISTORY
The
Underground Railroad Site at UC Davis
http://education.ucdavis.edu/new/stc/lesson/socstud/railroad/Title.htm
This site explains the Underground Railroad and also offers personal narratives
from Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman. Also read excerpts from Uncle
Tom's Cabin as well as songs of the Underground Railroad and maps of escape
routes.
History
of the Suffrage Movement
http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/hisindx.html
This site gives the chronology of events leading to women's right to vote, which
came with passage of the 19th amendment in 1920.
New
Perspectives on the West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
This is a guided tour through the history of the American West, following in
the footsteps of filmmakers Ken Burns and Stephen Ives who for five years traveled
that landscape, seeking out its history for their production of The West,
a documentary series for PBS.
PBS
Online - Lewis and Clark
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/index.html
This site explores the informational and archival resources used in the production
of a special PBS series. Learn about Clark's black slave and the Native American
tribes who already knew the lands that Lewis and Clark discovered.