History & Culture

• About.com: African-American History
  Comprehensive site offering primary source documents, biographical sketches, photographs, and topics such as the Harlem Renaissance, Underground Railroad, and the Civil Rights Movement.
• African American Mosaic
  Resource guide from the Library of Congress.
• African American Odyssey
  Presents rare and unique items from the Library of Congress, including the Frederick Douglass Papers and the WPA Slave Narratives.
• African American World
  PBS site with features on history, society, arts and culture.
• Africans in America
  America's journey through slavery, with historical narratives, resource banks and teachers' guides, from PBS.
• Documenting the American South
  University of North Carolina collection of sources on southern history, including slave narratives and the Black church.
• Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
  Biographies of African American scientists, inventors, mathematicians, engineers, and physicians, past and present.
• Freedmen's Bureau Online
  Online transcriptions of Freedmen's Bureau records.
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
  Yale University site featuring the Amistad case and over 200 online documents, including speeches, letters, articles and graphics.
• International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, England
  Examines the slave trade and the Middle Passage.
• The Internet African American History Challenge
  An interactive African American history quiz.
• Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project
  Includes major speeches, audioclips, a timeline and an encyclopedia on Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement.
• Race and Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South
  University of Virginia's online archive of an African American town, including oral histories, photographs and letters.
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  National research library site, including online exhibits and digital resources.
• Underground Railroad
  National Geographic site includes a timeline, brief biographies and classroom ideas.

Local History

• Historic Sites & Museums from Maryland-National Park and Planning Commission
  Photograph and brief description of sites including Northampton Plantation Slave Quarters in Largo, and Dorsey Chapel in Glenn Dale.
• Maryland State Archives: African American Resources
  Includes special exhibits and a description of the types of records available at the Archives.

Education

• Black Collegian Online
  Offers careers resources, including job search strategies, career reports, and graduate school opportunities.
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  Provides links to college websites.
• United Negro College Fund
  Provides extensive listing of scholarships and internships.

Genealogy

• African American Genealogy
  Includes records searchable by state, slave narratives, mailing lists, and a collection of online African American historical books.
• AfriGeneas: African Ancestored Genealogy
  Genealogical resource for researching African American ancestry.

Books

• African American Literature Book Club
  Profiles of books and authors by genre, resources for writers, and book lists.
• QBR: The Black Book Review Online
  Books reviews, author interviews, and recommended reading.

News & Opinion

• BET.com
  Entertainment and lifestyle information.
• BlackPressUSA.com
  Provides national and local news, opinion, and a history feature.