General Resources

ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, founded in 1982, provides members with access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources.

The Voices of Democracy project is designed to promote the study of great speeches and public debates. The emphasis of the project is on the actual words of those who, throughout American history, have defined the country's guiding principles.

Chartered by the University Research Center affiliated with the Department of History at the George Washington University, this site has a dual mission: collecting, researching, editing and publishing the universally acclaimed Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791, and serving as a research center on the most important and productive Congress in U.S. history.

An online exhibit celebrating the art and culture of a diverse society.

Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this site contains biographies of poets and the texts of hundreds of poems, many with images and sound files.

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.

Cultural, educational, and statistical resources covering the African continent. From the University of Pennsylvania.

Explore African art, history, and political and social themes through essays, timelines, and images in this Smithsonian online exhibit.

Historical collection of letters and memoirs by African-American women in the nineteenth-century.

A companion site to the PBS series tracing the struggle against slavery with a rich array of classroom-ready resources (no film available).