CULTURE

Documenting the American South
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/
This is a collection of primary materials documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. Readers can obtain primary resources on Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century, including slave narratives.

African-American Women - On-line Archival Exhibits at Duke University
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
This is a historical collection of letters and memoirs by African-American women from the 1800's. This unique collection, administered by Duke University, includes slave letters.

RESEARCH

The Australian Museum
http://www.austmus.gov.au/
This is one of Australia's oldest scientific and cultural institutions. It aims to be an encyclopedic warehouse of cultural and natural history and to expand knowledge of the natural history of Australia and the nearby Pacific region.

SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY

Thomas A. Edison Papers
http://edison.rutgers.edu/
The Thomas A. Edison Papers is a documentary editing project with the goal of organizing and publishing papers of Thomas Alva Edison. The site makes available some of the materials from those papers, as well as maps and images from Edison's life.

Information Age
http://photo2.si.edu/infoage.html
This interactive site will give you a look at the people and technology of the beginnings of modern communications technology. See the original telegraph machine, the first Atlantic cable, and the first telephone.

HISTORY

The Underground Railroad Site at UC Davis
http://education.ucdavis.edu/new/stc/lesson/socstud/railroad/Title.htm
This site explains the Underground Railroad and also offers personal narratives from Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman. Also read excerpts from Uncle Tom's Cabin as well as songs of the Underground Railroad and maps of escape routes.

History of the Suffrage Movement
http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/hisindx.html
This site gives the chronology of events leading to women's right to vote, which came with passage of the 19th amendment in 1920.

New Perspectives on the West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
This is a guided tour through the history of the American West, following in the footsteps of filmmakers Ken Burns and Stephen Ives who for five years traveled that landscape, seeking out its history for their production of The West, a documentary series for PBS.

PBS Online - Lewis and Clark
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/index.html
This site explores the informational and archival resources used in the production of a special PBS series. Learn about Clark's black slave and the Native American tribes who already knew the lands that Lewis and Clark discovered.