Africology & African American Studies

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This is a list of ebooks purchased by the Library because they are assigned in EMU classes.

"The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period. These important documents provide a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement; scans of these documents are provided as images and PDF files."

The Living Oral History Project is a partnership between the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County and the Ann Arbor District Library

The AACHM mission is "to research, collect, preserve and exhibit cultural and historical materials about the life and work of African Americans in Washtenaw County."

"The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The online collection, containing approximately 7,400 items (38,000 images), spans the years 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material dating from 1862 to 1865. Many of Douglass’s earlier writings were destroyed when his house in Rochester, New York, burned in 1872."

Exact Editions has partnered with a number of publishers to assemble an extensive list of articles from archived digital issues in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, made freely available to view via the Exact Editions site.

Access thousands of primary sources (images, documents, films, etc.). Browse by topic or refine a search by type, date, source, and subject.

An Online Reference Guide to African American and Global African History

A guide with links to history sources

A guide with links to African history sources

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This interactive lesson explores news sources - particularly, strategies that you can use to evaluate them. Consider these questions: What qualifies as news? Is all content published by a news agency really news? How does geography influence news coverage? What strategies should I use when evaluating news?