Nations Online Project
Nations Online: Namibia
Excellent online resource that provides a country profile of the South African nation of Namibia, background details, and numerous links to in- depth information on the nation's culture, history, geography, economy, environment,...
University of Calgary
Merchants & Traders: 330 Bce 1500ce
Article provides a brief examination of the merchants and traders of Africa during the early period of African history.
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Mosaic: Migrations
The Library of Congress surveys the migration of African Americans to out of the South after the Civil War. Features include statistics, maps, and reasons for the migration.
Nations Online Project
Nations Online: Zimbabwe
Interesting reference guide that takes you on a virtual trip to the South African nation of Zimbabwe. Background overview is given on its art, culture, people, environment, geography, history, economy, and government. There are numerous...
Nations Online Project
Nations Online: Reunion
Features a country profile and travel guide to the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, background details, and numerous links to comprehensive information on the island's culture, history, geography, economy, environment, population,...
Nations Online Project
Nations Online: Swaziland
Includes a complete country profile and travel guide to the South African nation of Swaziland that includes background details and numerous links to sources with comprehensive information on the nation's culture, history, geography,...
A&E Television
History.com: How Early Humans Survived the Ice Age
The most recent ice age peaked between 24,000 and 21,000 years ago, when vast ice sheets covered North America and northern Europe, and mountain ranges like Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro and South America's Andes were encased in glaciers. At...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Black History: Zora Neale Hurston
This entry from Encyclopedia Brittanica's Guide to Black History features Zora Neale Hurston, an American folklorist and writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated the African American culture of the rural South. This...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Langston Hughes
This resource focuses on the works of famous African-American author, Langston Hughes.
PBS
Pbs: The City of Thulamela
Good information from PBS on Thulamela, another archaeological site in South Africa. Thulamela prospered between 1350 and 1650 A.D. and was skilled in mining and creating tools.
Black Past
Black Past: Silver Bluff Baptist Church, Silver Bluff, South Carolina
This encyclopedia entry gives information about the Silver Bluff Baptist Church, whose black congregation became the Springfield Baptist Church, which is still in existence.
Nations Online Project
Nations Online: Madagascar
Offers an excellent online resource and country profile of the Southern African island of Madagascar, background overview, and numerous links to comprehensive information on the island's culture, history, geography, economy, environment,...
Nations Online Project
Nations Online: Malawi
Great reference directory for finding information on the African nation of Malawi. Content includes background details, a country profile, and numerous links to comprehensive information on the nation's culture, history, geography,...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: African Americans in the British New World
Read about the transit of Africans from their homeland to the American British colonies to work on plantations in the south as part of leg in the triangular trade.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Presidential Reconstruction
After the death of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson was responsible for implementing Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War. Read about his views on African-Americans, and the leniency he offered Confederate leaders and soldiers....
Alabama Humanities Foundation
Encyclopedia of Alabama: History Scottsboro Trials
Encyclopedia entry about the prosecution, in Scottsboro, Alabama, of nine young African Americans charged with the rape of two white women. The trials focused the nation's attention on the racist forces at work in Jim Crow south in 1930s...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was an African-American visionary. Read about his embrace of education as a way to lift up blacks in the racist South, but see how some of his views found opposition in the black community.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Cotton and African American Life
But for the invention of the cotton gin, slavery perhaps would have died out in the United States in the early 19th century. Read about why technological advances caused the spread of slavery in the South and read about how slaves clung...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Desmond Tutu
This entry summarizes the life of Desmond Tutu, a South African Anglican cleric who in 1984 received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his role in the opposition to apartheid in South Africa.
New York Times
New York Times: Insurance Policies on Slaves: New York Life's Complicated Past
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article describes the controversial history of New York Life Insurance. In 1846 the company began selling insurance policies to slave owners in the South that guaranteed compensation if a slave...
PBS
Pbs: The Story of Jazz
A supplement to a ten-part film series on jazz, this resource describes the growth and development of jazz music from the gritty streets of New Orleans to the Lincoln Gardens on Chicago's south side, where Louis Armstrong first won fame,...
Black Past
Black Past: First Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia
The encyclopedia entry about the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia,tells about the opportunities for both black slaves and freemen in this integrated church in the Antebellum South.
Black Past
Black Past: Denmark Vesey Conspiracy
The short encyclopedia article recounts the slave uprising instigated by Denmark Vesey in South Carolina in 1822.
Black Past
Black Past: Berea College
In this brief encyclopedia article, you will read about Berea College, the first fully integrated college in the South.