Web Resources

General Research Tools on U.S. Slave Emancipation:

Footnote:

http://www.footnote.com/

Documenting the American South:

http://www.docsouth.unc.edu/

Internet Archive:

http://www.archive.org/index.php

American Antiquarian Society—Northern Visions of Race, Region and Reform:

http://mac110.assumption.edu/aas/default.html

National Parks Service—History & Culture:

http://www.nps.gov/history/

Freedmen’s Bureau Online:

http://www.freedmensbureau.com/

America’s Reconstruction:

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html 

Library of Congress Learning Page—Civil War & Reconstruction:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html

Harper’s Weekly—Towards Racial Equality, 1857-1874:

http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History:

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/

Military Records:

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System:

http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/

African-American Soldiers—Research Links:

http://princetonusct.blogspot.com/2007/06/photographs-and-prints.html

National Archives Online Lesson—Black Soldiers in the Civil War:

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/

North Carolina Union Volunteers:

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncuv/ncuv.htm

2nd South Carolina Volunteers:

http://www.marple.com/34thusct.html

Records of the 105th USCT:

http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/usct105.html

Overview of Service Record for the 102nd USCT:

http://www.runet.edu/~shepburn/web/service_record_102nd.htm

United States Colored Troops Institute:

http://info.hartwick.edu/usct/usct.htm

North Carolina:

The Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony:

http://www.roanokefreedmenscolony.com/

New Bern North Carolina—Black History:

http://www.newbern-nc.info/New-Bern-nc-history.shtml

North Carolina History Project:

http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/

Learn NC:

http://www.learnnc.org/

Eastern North Carolina Digital Library:

http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/search/

Forgotten Sons—North Carolinians In The Union Army:

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncuv/forgot1.htm

Caswell County Historical Association:

http://ncccha.blogspot.com/2008/12/ku-klux-klan-activity-1869-1871.html

North Carolina Historical Review:

http://www.ncpublications.com/nchr/default.htm

South Carolina:

Avery Center, South Carolina History Archive:

http://www.cofc.edu/avery/sc_historical_archives.htm

South Carolina Department of Archives and History:

http://scdah.sc.gov/

South Carolina Information Highway [African Americans]:

http://www.sciway.net/afam/

New South Newspaper [Port Royal]:

http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/newsouth.html

South Carolina during Reconstruction:

http: www.screconstruction.org

Lowcountry Digital Library:

http://lowcountrydigital.library.cofc.edu

Lowcountry Africana:

http://lowcountryafricana.net/

Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor:

http://www.nps.gov/guge/index.htm

The Gullah: Rice, Slavery and the Sierra Leone-American Connection:

http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/index.htm

Laurens County, SC, During Reconstruction:

http://www.geocities.com/genebrooks/laurens1.html

Audio/Visual and other Media:

PBS Series–”Thus Far by Faith: 1866-1945: from Emancipation to Jim Crow”:

http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/journey_2/p_9.html

PBS: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/program/index.html

The Research Channel:

http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/