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August 30, 2006
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: a Visual Record
Library link
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/search.html
Short description
Searchable database of 1,200 images relating to the Atlantic slave trade and slave life in the Americas.
Source website
http://www.virginiafoundation.org/
Copyright and usage conditions
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/Conditions.html
August 22, 2006
U.S. Political History
Library link
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/
Short description
A collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History which can be browsed by era or topic.
Source website
Copyright and usage conditions
All images are believed to be in the public domain.
America's Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War, Digital History
Library link
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html
Short description
Online exhibit based on a travelling exhibition which documents the reconstruction period which began during the Civil War and ended in 1877. Although not an image database the collection includes many photographs from the time.
Source website
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/default.htm
Copyright and usage conditions
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/copyright.cfm
August 21, 2006
America's Historical Documents, the National Archives
Library link
http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/
Short description
Images of significant documents from American history held by the National Archives.
Source website
Copyright and usage conditions
http://www.archives.gov/global-pages/privacy.html
Slave Narratives: Audio Interviews 1932–1975
Library link
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/
Short description
Nearly seven hours of interviews recorded between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. The collection also features a gallery of the interviewees.
Source website
Copyright and usage conditions
http://www.loc.gov/homepage/legal.html
August 17, 2006
African American images, NYPL Digital Gallery
Library link
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgsubjectbrowseresult.cfm?alphaPos=A
Short description
NYPL digital gallery index lists many different sub-categories under African American. You can browse by region, period or many other options.
Source website
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
Copyright and usage conditions
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dghelp_using.cfm#conditions
African American Mosaic
Library link
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
Short description
Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black history and culture. The exhibition covers colonization, abolition, migrations and the WPA.
Source website
Copyright and usage conditions
http://www.loc.gov/homepage/legal.html