Library ++ Links
| Christopher Fennell" <cfennell@uiuc.edu> I've integrated the portal entitled "African American Archaeology, Cultures and History" into the ADAN web site, and it is now available at: http://www.diaspora .uiuc.edu/ bookmark3. html This portal provides over 500 links, categorized by geographic regions and subject areas. |
Louis A. DeCaro’s Seven Points You Should Know About the John Brown Raid http://www.afrolumens.org/ugrr/decaro01.htm AfrolumensProject is Central Pennsylvania African American History for Everyone. Afrolumens site by George F Nagle editor@afrolumens.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ “Blow Ye the Trumpet!” Louis A. DeCaro’s scholarly blog on John Brown. Interesting critique just posted (October 30, 2006) on a forum in Pittsburgh about John Brown whose keynote speaker was Staughton Lynd. http://abolitionist-john-brown.blogspot.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ John Brown’s letters to his wife Mary Day Brown, from prison in Charles Town Four letters, fully transcribed. These letters are historically important because of their personal content and the coded messages therein to abolitionist leaders. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/brownprisonletters.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
| FORKS-OF-THE-ROADS Natchez, Mississippi Preserving the Forks-of-the-Roads Enslavement Market Sites in Natchez, Mississippi A Grassroots Struggle to Achieve History and Tourism Democracy in Southwest Mississippi and Central Louisiana : http://www.forksoftheroads.net/ |
| The National Park Service self-guided study course of African American archaeology and artifacts -- how to examine and report the treasures in your churches and homes http://www.cr.nps.gov/ethnogra phy/aah/AAheritage/index.htm |
These are interesting sites on the topics of African American
archaeology and history.
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| Order Allies for Freedom Titles online at Amazon.com by title or storefront or fax your request to 1-650-618-8603 -- return fax will send print order form ALLIES FOR FREEDOM is an unfunded group of teachers, librarians, and local historians who research and write on the African center of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859 authors: Jean Libby, retired US History community college instructor, California, Hannah N. Geffert, Shepherd University, West Virginia; Evelyn M.E. Taylor, chair, Charles Town West Virginia Landmarks Commission; Louis S. Diggs, historian of African American settlements in Baltimore County; Jimica Akinloye Kenyatta, Charles Town West Virginia; Eva Slezak, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore; Henry P. Organ, California; Judith Grevious Cephas, retired resource teacher, Silver Spring, Maryland. |