African American Studies

Historical images, videos, books and more drawn from libraries, archives and museums throughout the U.S.

Includes early printed pamphlets and books by African American authors, documents on Slavery and the Courts, audio interviews of former slaves, and papers of Frederick Douglass and Zora Neale Hurston.

Includes online exhibitions using images, full-length books and articles, manuscripts, and maps. Exhibitions focus on special themes such as Abolition of the Slave Trade, the African American Migration Experience and African American Women Writers of the 19th Century.

The Columbia University Libraries guide describes freely-available web collections related to African American studies.

This collection of documentary sources on the American South includes components on “North American Slave Narratives” and “The Church in the Southern Black Community.”

More than 10,000 titles pamphlets and leaflets that document the anti-slavery movement at local, regional, and national levels.

Includes biographies, novels, poetry and essays written by women. Also includes biographies of men written by women.

Digital sources, both primary and secondary, from libraries, archives, and museums.

Online library of texts, images and more.

Online reference center

Digitized minutes and related documents of the nation's first Black convention movement that began in 1830.

Blog sponsored by the African American Intellectual History Society.

A list for professionals, faculty and advanced students in the field of African American Studies.

Digital home for Mark Anthony Neal