Black Voyage-Eyewitness Accounts of the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Alexander Falconbridge, edited By Thomas Howard, Little Brown & Company, Boston
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h281t.html
Peoples of the United States
African Americans :: Asian Americans :: GLBT :: Hispanic Americans :: Immigration :: Native Americans :: Women
Back to Main Directory
The Census
Beginning in 1790 and every 10 years since, American citizens have gotten a
new view of who they are through the census that is mandated by the U.S. Constitution.
Reformulated racial and ethnic categories reflect both policy priorities and
changes in how we think about ourselves and how the government allocates resources.
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/census/before.html
100 Documents Pertaining to Africans and Slavery in America
Massive collection of primary sources regarding slavery
in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/rb_index_hd.html
African American History and Culture - Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm
Africans in America
Black Voyage-Eyewitness Accounts of the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Alexander Falconbridge, edited By Thomas Howard, Little Brown & Company, Boston
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h281t.html
Black Drama
This edition of Black Drama contains 502 plays by 125 playwrights,
together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters,
production companies, and more. NOTE:
You'll need to register and have a password to enter.
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/BLDRLive/
Black Thought and Culture
Includes the non-fiction published works of leading African
Americans. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it
can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. NOTE:
You'll need to register and have a password to enter.
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/BLTC/
Excerpts from Slave Narratives
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm
Histor eSearch: Afro-American History
http://www.historesearch.com/afro.html
Slave Narrative from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1938
Library of Congress, American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
Back to Peoples - Main Directory
Asian American Drama
This edition of Asian American Drama contains 70 plays by 17
playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions,
theaters, production companies, and more. NOTE:
You'll need to register and have a password to enter.
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/aadr/
Interactive Chinese American History
History and perspectives on Chinese Americans. Includes many
source documents and a great timeline.
http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~asam121/
The Golden Mountain: Asian Americans in the West
Texts, lmages, and links of Asian Americans in the West
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/pages/asian.html
Back to Peoples - Main Directory
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender sources
UC Berkeley Library: Gay/Lesbian Studies Resources
Collection references mostly
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Gayles/gaylesres.html#primary
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: Welfare Reform
http://www.ngltf.org/downloads/welfarefactsheet.pdf
Sex, Race, and Gender Links
Art, Photography, Film/Video & Material Culture
http://www.library.arizona.edu/users/juarezm/SexRace&Gender.html
Back to Peoples - Main Directory
Hispanic Society of America
Prints and Photographs
http://www.hispanicsociety.org/english/prints.htm
United States Hispanic Information Database
Perspectives, issues, and data on U.S. Hispanics
http://www.ushispanic.net/USHisp/index.htm
Back to Peoples - Main Directory
American Memory Timeline: The New Nation
U.S. policies toward Native Americans
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/newnatn/newnatn.html
Treaty of Greenville (1795)
A treaty of peace between the United States of America, and the tribes of Indians called the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanees, Ottawas, Chippewas, Pattawatimas, Miamis, Eel Rivers, Weas, Kickapoos, Piankeshaws, and Kaskaskias.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/D/1776-1800/indians/green.htm
Back to Peoples - Main Directory
Digital Collections of Primary Sources
Links to various primary source documents.
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-digcoll.html
The Journals of Anne Prevost
The following memoirs of Anne Prevost are copied directly from
her original writings, all spelling and punctuation (including underlining)
appears as therein. (Page 1 of 12)
http://www.galafilm.com/1812/e/people/anne_diary1.html
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
From Colonial Period to 1950. NOTE:
You'll need to register and have a password to enter.
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/NWLDLive/
Votes for Women
Learn about the women's suffrage movement through primary source
speeches from the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.
This site also provides biographies, articles, a timeline, and photographs.
http://www.huntington.org/vfw/
Back to Peoples - Main Directory