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U.S. ETHNIC HISTORY INTERNET LINKS AND RESOURCES PAGE

History 270
Marymount College

Welcome to the Internet Gallery and Resources page for History 270. This page will provide you with additional internet resources (opening onto a separate window) that you may explore to further your understanding of the topics we discuss in class. If there are any web pages you believe would be helpful to add to this list, please e-mail me at jkelly@marymountpv.edu.

GENERAL U.S. HISTORY WEB RESOURCES

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Overview: A New American Race

	RACIST CARTOONS -- A UCB Professor has put together political cartoons of the 19th Century drawn by Thomas Nast who portrays African Americans, Indians, and Chinese in the worst possible light.
	ENGLISH SERVER -- A collection of resources, including reference materials and essays dealing with race and ethnic issues.
	THE RACE AND ETHNICITY BOOK REVIEW DISCUSSION LIST -- A collection of book reviews provided by Illinois State University.
	RACE AND ETHNICITY RESOURCES -- Filled with resources divided by race and ethnic heritage.

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	HALL OF MULTICULTURALISM -- A collection of internet resources dealing with diversity.
	MULTICULTURALISM -- A study on the policy response to diversity.
	MULTICULTURAL PAVILION -- Resources and Dialogues for students, educators, and activists.
	DOES DIVERSITY MAKE A DIFFERENCE? -- Three Research Studies on diversity in the college classroom.
	MYTH OF THE MELTING POT -- A Washington Post series on America's changing demographics.
	AMERICAN EUGENICS MOVEMENT - A critical view of racial science through images and analysis.
	FUTURE GENERATIONS -- A modern-day pro-eugenics board. These essays are controversial.

First Contact: White Perceptions of the "Other"

	AFRICANS IN AMERICA: THE TERRIBLE TRANSFORMATION - A PBS site discussing the origins of slavery from 1450-1750.
	JAMESTOWN REDISCOVERY - Information on the archeological dig site at Jamestown, Virginia.
	HISTORY OF TOBACCO -- What was the "stinking weed's" role in the saving of Virginia?
	CHRONOLOGY ON THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY AND RACISM -- A useful chronological resource with links to other essays.

Indian Removal and Reorganization

	THE AMERICAN INDIAN PAGE -- A collection of sites dealing with Native American history.
	PEOPLE OF COLOR ON AMERICA'S WESTERN FRONTIER -- Explores race and ethnicity in the American West through primary documents, essays, pictures, and web links.
	THE ARTWORK OF GEORGE CATLIN AND KARL BODMER
	WESTWARD EXPANSION -- Collection of links dealing with the American settlement of the West.
	THE NATIVE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE -- Photos, drawings and maps of Native Americans from pre-1600 to the present.
	AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY AND RELATED ISSUES -- Great collection of links.
	INFORMATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN -- Census stats, research sources, and maps.

The Cherokee Trail of Tears

	INDIAN REMOVAL - A PBS web page to supplement its program "Africans in America" series.
	TRAIL OF TEARS - Information about the Cherokee Trail of Tears, including maps, pictures, and statistics.
	CHEROKEE NATION VS. GEORGIA - U.S. Supreme Court opinion in favor of the Cherokees and which President Jackson ignored.

African Americans in Pre-Civil War America

Slavery: The Peculiar Institution

	AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES -- Literary sources by African Americans.
	SLAVE NARRATIVES -- A collection of electronic texts of North American slave narratives.
	AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC -- Some on-line recordings from the Library of Congress' collection.
	A JOURNEY FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM -- An on-line exhibit from the B. Davis Schwartz Library.
	IMAGES OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM -- Prints and images from the Library of Congress.
	BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM -- A wonderful collection of images and narratives on topics ranging from slave resistance to advertisements to whiten black skin.

Emancipation and Reconstruction

	ABOLITION PAGE -- Library of Congress page containing documents and images that detail the arguments and events that lead up to emancipation.
	EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION -- Read the original document.
	AFRICAN AMERICAN ODYSSEY -- Excellent pictures and commentary on Reconstruction and its aftermath.
	MARTIN DELANY -- The Father of Black of Nationalism in the 19th Century.

Race and Segregation in Post-Civil War America

Racism. Jim Crow, and Culture

	THE PROGRESS OF A PEOPLE -- Interesting site using historical pamphlets, images, and audio to detail the racism African Americans faced.
	LYNCHING IN AMERICA -- Disturbing collection of photos and analysis.
	ARCHIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC AND CULTURE -- Includes links to on-line music clips, other internet resources, and a bibliography of African-American music.
	JIM CROW MUSEUM OF RACIST MEMORABILIA -- Collection of pictures and analysis of the kind of cultural racism prevalent in America well into the 1960s.

Booker T. Washington versus W.E.B. Du Bois:

	ATLANTA COMPROMISE (1895) -- read Washington's original speech pertaining to accommodation.
	THE AWAKENING OF THE NEGRO (1896) -- an essay published by Washington in the Atlantic Monthly.
	SIGNS OF PROGRESS AMONG THE NEGROES (1900) -- an essay in Century Magazine.
	THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (1903) -- Du Bois criticizes Washington's accommodationist view.
	W.E.B. DU BOIS RESOURCES --An excellent list of on-line resources on and about Du Bois.

Black Migration to the North

	AFRICAN AMERICAN ODYSSEY -- excellent pictures and commentary on Reconstruction and its aftermath.
	AFRICAN AMERICAN MOSAIC -- The Library of Congress has some excellent details on African American migration out of the South in the post-Civil War years at this site.
	OUR SHARED HISTORY -- National Park Service's Celebration of African American Heritage.
	BLACK MIGRATION -- Brief description of the African American exodus to the North; with maps.
	BLACK MIGRATION INTO DELAWARE -- Study of former slaves moving north after Civil War.

	HARLEM -- An on-line exhibition presented by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
	HARLEM RENAISSANCE -- A celebration of African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary in early 20th century Harlem.
	RHAPSODIES IN BLACK -- Artwork from the Harlem Renaissance.
	PORTRAIT OF BLACK CHICAGO -- A glimpse into the people and culture of 1970s Chicago.