African American History

African-American Links (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

Links to sources for genealogical searches, and to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. THE DIGITAL SCHOMBURG includes African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, images of African Americans from the 19th Century. ONLINE EXHIBITIONS: Harlem 1900-1940: An African American Community and The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century

This pamphlet collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel , and Emanuel Love.

This site links to many others that document lynching including: Partial Listing of Negroes Lynched in the United States Since 1859 , African American Holocaust (many lynching pictures), African Americans Lynched 1865 - 1965 , Reflections on the Death of Emmett Till, and stories of other specific lynchings.

Irish American History

IHA Links

Research Where the Irish Settled: IHA Online, web site of THE IRISH At Home and Abroad, offers a wide range of sources for learning more about Irish history and ancestry. Site includes genealogy links by surname and location, and links to emigration history, ships' passenger lists and related information. Contact information for repositories of records in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

The Irish in America: Long Journey Home. This online supplement to the PBS series provides excellent archival images, brings to life the complex and painful experience of the Potato Famine, and presents detailed case studies on immigration, ethnic relations, and American politics and culture. Also included are thought and discussion questions for use in high school classrooms, related to particular segments or to complete parts of the series.

The information on these pages includes emigration and voyage accounts, reports from various years of emigration, lists of ships sailing to Canada, information on the ports, and on the people. First person accounts of a coffin ship voyage, government reports on the illness and death of many immigrants and the disposition of orphans and widows.