http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/borders/chap2.html#1:2 Becoming Interactive Readers
African-American Mosaic
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
Slaves Voices from the Duke University Special Collection
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery/
Levi Jordan Plantation Home Page
http://www.webarchaeology.com/HTML
MelaNet: The UnCut Black Experience
http://www.melanet.com/
Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum
Maritme America
http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/main/welcome.html
North American Slave Narratives
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/neh/neh.html
Malcolm X: A Research Site
http://brothermalcolm.net/mxcontent.html
NYPL Digital Schomburg: African-American Women Writers of the 19th
Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19
The National Park Service: The Underground Railroad
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/ugrr.htm
Write a brief synthetic paragraph about the reading.
What kind of conclusions can you draw about
African American
history?
What kinds of questions do these sites raise
for you?
What kinds of connections can you make between
the experiences of
African Americans in the early periods of
our nation's history and
African American history today? Are African
Americans in the 1990s
still concerned with the same issues that
African Americans in the early
period were?
Checklist for Informational Web Page by Jan Alexander
and Marsha Ann Tate, Wolfgram Library, Widener
University
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/inform.htm
How can you distinguish
a "good" website from a
"bad" website?
Colonization in Columbia http://morrison.wsu.edu/studio/Table.asp?t=3811
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of
Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black
History and Culture
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
Click on and read "Introductory Text for this Exhibit."
Click on "Next Section of the African-American
Mosaic" which will take you to the section
on
COLONIZATION. This on-line exhibit is divided
into
two subsections:
• Liberia
• Personal Stories and ACS Directions.
Divide responsibilities among the group for
surveying and assessing the two subsections.
Address
the following questions as you interactively
"read" the
on-line exhibit:
• What information in this exhibit confirms,
challenges, and/or extends the information
presented
by Dr. Leroy Hopkins in "Black Eldorado"?
• What questions about colonization does this
exhibit
answer and what questions does it raise?
GROUPS 4, 5, AND 6
Africans in America, Part 3, American Colonization
Society: a Memorial to the United States Congress
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h483.html
Read the brief introduction and then click
on "click
here for the text of this historical document"
to read
the document.
• Select one sentence that most clearly expresses
the
purpose of the ACS
• Select one sentence that confuses you or
raises
questions for you.
Outline a brief annotation for this text.
Divide responsibilities for surveying and
summarizing the "Related Entries."
What do the resources of this electronic collection
(a
companion to the PBS video series "Africans
in
America") contribute to your understanding
of:
• the role of the colonization movement in
the
settlement of free Black communities in the
Northern
states
• the significance of African-American
religion/African-American churches in the
formation
of free Black communities in the Northern
states
Read this electronic collection interactively,
keeping
the following questions in mind:
• What information in this exhibit confirms,
challenges, and/or extends the information
presented
by Dr. Leroy Hopkins in "Black Eldorado" and
"Bethel
African Methodist Church in Lancaster"?
• What questions about colonization and/or
religion
does this collection answer and what questions
does
it raise?
Review: "Putting Texts in Perspective," "Texts in Social
Contexts," and "Texts Interacting with Other
Texts"
http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/borders/chap3.html#1:2
3. Examine: For an explanation of hyperlinked
essays and for
some examples of student work, look at Randy
Bass's
assignment for ENGL 210 American Literary
Traditions.
http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/papertwo.html
Website Evaluation and articles? http://morrison.wsu.edu/studio/Table.asp?t=4949
1. Go to Part 4 of the PBS "Africans in America" website and
read:
the introduction:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/narrative.html
the Map: Coast
to Coast
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/map4.html
Westward Expansion
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4narr4.html
Browse the "Resource
Guide"(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/index.html)
for some
references on the following topics that you
might include in your
essay:
Antebellum Slavery
Abolitionism
Fugitive Slaves
and Northern Racism
Westward Expansion
The Civil War
http://www.millersv.edu/~tweis/donna.html
Hypertexts Essays--Are They Worth It? Please read
Adrienne Hood and Jacqueline Spafford,
"Student-Constructed WebSites for Research
Projects:
Is It Worth It?" in The Journal for MultiMedia
History,
Volume 1 Number 1 ~ Fall 1998
http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol2no1/jmh-previssues-v2.html
Review: Local History Web-based Resources
"Black History
Bibliography" Lancaster County
Historical Society
http://lanclio.org/lchsbb.htm
Christiana Resistance
of 1851 (Jeff Butch, Tom
Campbell, Jay
Vasellas, Kevin Webster)
http://www.millersv.edu/~jgb49633/Christiana.html
Slavery in Berks
County (Shawn Meals and
Sherri Moletress)
http://www.oleysd.k12.pa.us/slavery
Websites on
African-American History (see
website list
handed on on 10/21 and emailed to
each of you
as a file attachment)
We will
examine these
two historical
narratives/interpretations
in light of the
National History
Standards developed by the
National Center
for History in the Schools at the
University of
California at Los Angeles
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/standards/
Web Resources for Final Project
"Chronology of Emancipation during the Civil
War"
http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/chronol.htm
Sample Documents from Freedmen and Southern
Society
Project
http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/sampdocs.htm
Brief History of African American Congresses
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/rec/congress.html
African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from
the
Daniel A.P. Murray, 1818-1907
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
Harlem 1900-1940, an African American Community
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress
Resource Guide for the Study of Black History
and
Culture
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam001.html
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement
Association Papers Project, A Research Project
of the
James S. Coleman African Studies
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/mgpp/default.htm
Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
http://www.iniva.org/harlem/home.html
Harlem Renaissance
http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/harlem.html
North by South: Charleston to Harlem, The Great
Migrations
http://topaz.kenyon.edu/projects/neh/intro/intro.htm
I'll Make Me A World
http://www.pbs.org/immaw/
Homecoming...Sometimes I am Haunted by Memories
of
Red Clay and Dirt
http://www.pbs.org/homecoming/
The Black Press; Soldiers Without Swords
http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/
A Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom
http://www.pbs.org/weta/apr/
African American Odyssey: a Quest for Full
Citizenship
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
http://www.unbrokencircle.org/facts.htm
Two Nations of Black America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews