GMHS Library Home Page: AP African-American Studies

A digital collection of objects from the Smithsonian collection aligned to complement the AP African-American Studies course.

Over 400 years of the African American experience is documented through primary source materials at the Library of Congress. This guide provides access to digitized collections, search strategies, and external websites related to the topic.

The Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Black experience. This page highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.

The Digital Public Library of America has links to thousands of primary sources from images to sound and video. Explore sources by topic or look at pre-curated source sets on a variety of historical topics.

The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas.

A searchable database of the Smithsonian's art collection

Searchable digital archives from thousands of newspapers, large and small, from across the US.

BlackPast is dedicated to providing reliable information on the history of Black people across the globe, and especially in North America. Our goal is to promote greater understanding of our common human experience through knowledge of the diversity of the Black experience and the ubiquity of the global Black presence. Welcome to the largest online encyclopedia on African American and Global African history on the Internet.

The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) is an interdisciplinary research hub that uses digital tools to bring the buried history of nineteenth-century Black organizing to life.

This page is a subset of texts derived from the three major online Sourcebooks; The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and the Internet Modern History Sourcebook