RELATED LINKS
HISTORY WEBSITES:
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration's Digital Classroom
To encourage teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources. Visit our page regularly as we expand our offerings.
Virtual Jamestown
A digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the VIrginia experiment." As a work in progress, Virtual jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony.
North Carolina Office of Archives and History
The Carolina Algonkians
Contains source materials by anthropologists, archaeologists and historians which deal with the Carolina Algonkians and links to related sources already online.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY:
Library of Congress African American Odyssey
Exhibit Sections: Slavery | Free Blacks | Abolition | Civil War | Reconstruction | Booker T. Washington Era | WWI-Post War | The Depression-WWII | Civil Rights Era
The African-American Mosaic:
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
Information on Colonization, Abolition, Mirgration, WPA, etc.
Waters of Despair, Waters of Hope:
African-Americans and the Chesapeake Bay
Black Sailors: The Howard University Research Project
Dr. Joseph P. Reidy, DIrector
Database of African-American sailors with supplementary materials produce by Howard University, the Department of the Navy, and the National Park Service. Extremely good.
A Gateway to African-American History
A comprehensive and well-annotated listing of sources about African American History.
Free African Americans
The history of the free African American community in the Southeast during the colonial period as told through family history.
Virginia Runaways Project
A digital database of runaway and captured slave and servant advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers
THE CIVIL WAR:
United States Civil War Center
Promoting the Civil War from the perspectives of all professions, occupations, and academic disciplines.
The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony
Website developed by Dr. Patricia Click of The University of Virginia, based on her book Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmenšs Colony, 1862-1867 (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001).
Civil War in Plymouth, NC
Information about the Civil War in Plymouth from the Port-O-Plymouth Museum.
The NC-US Colored Troops Project
A volunteer, non-profit project posting data on the soldiers of the five US Colored Troop regiments formed in North Carolina
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
Depicts the drama of emancipation in the words of the participants.
Genealogy & Civil War Links
Listing of higher quality sites most useful to researchers.
Grand Army of the Republic Homepage: Dedicated to the Union Civil War Veterans
Developed to advance the understanding of the great Civil War veterans organization, the GAR
Information on Colonization, Abolition, Mirgration, WPA, etc.
Grand Army of the Republic Patriotic Recollections
Presents patriotic articles dealing with or about Civil War veterans and Grand Army of the Republic members and their experiences and service to the country prior to, during and after the Civil War and articles relating to the Civil War in general
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Details Civil War activities of two communities--one Southern and one Northern, separated by the length of a valley.
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors: African-American Names Index
United States Colored Troops in the Civil War
Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet:
Transcriptions from Duke University's manuscript collections that document women's experiences in the Civil War
9th New York Volunteer Infantry (Hawkins' Zouaves).
Researching People of the Civil War Era:
Hints and links to genealogical reseach sources
AFRICAN-AMERICAN GENEALOGY:
Cyndi's List has many resources
FOLKWAYS:
The Doodle Bug
CHOWAN COUNTY:
Chowan County newspapers in the North Carolina State Archives
WORCESTER, MA:
Photographs of Historic Worcester by Edwin Bradbury Luce
Luce opened a portrait studio in Worcester in 1885. His photographs of Worcester street scenes provide rich documentation of the evolution of New England's second largest city at the turn of the century when Allen Parker was a resident.
The "Worcester Whirlwind"
"Life is too short for a man to hold bitterness in his heart."
--- Marshall W. "Major" Taylor
When "Major" won the world championship in a 1-mile bicycle race in Montreal in 1899, he was the second black world champion in any sport. He was a steadfast member of the John Street Baptist Church in Worcester and challenged racial prejudice when he bought a house in on Hobson Avenue in Worcester's well-to-do Columbus Park. His racing career made him one of the wealthiest blacks in the country.
Images from Contemporary Worcester:
Photographs by Robert M. Johnson
Robert Johnson grew up in Worcester in the 1950s and has recorded the city with affection and humor.
Information on Worcester, MA
Information on African-American community in Worcester, MA
