Africana Studies: Online Resources

Country specific resources compiled by the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

The virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.

Contains links to information regarding African History.

Activism for Africa Since 1953.
NOTE: This website appears to be offline; linked above is the last entry in the Internet Wayback Machine courtesy of archive.org.

A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture

The Library of Congress

The Civil Rights Digital Library features primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and other sources on a national scale.

Voices from the Gaps is dedicated to bringing together marginalized resources and knowledge about women artists of color to serve secondary and college education across the world.

Includes documents from the National Archives of the United States that chronicle African American life from the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 and the beginning of Reconstruction in 1867.

The UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project makes accessible primary source media (audio and newspaper) related to the Black Panther Party and other activist movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

This collection contains 1,280 images documenting the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.

A subject guide for research in Africana Studies.

Online resources on African art, including videos, interviews, online exhibits, and the Radio Africa radio channel.

Selected Internet resources available for search by country and topic.

Interdisciplinary guide to resources on the African Diaspora provided by Columbia University.

This PBS collections explores African culture and history through video and other online resources.

Online access to information on government and law for countries in Asia. Library of Congress: Law Library.

Links and information on governments of Asian nations. University of Colorado at Boulder.

The texts, images, and other materials come primarily from the premier Southern collections in the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Gilder Lehrman Center's online document collection contains over 200 individual items, including speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles.