Teaching American History
Some Sites of Utility

General Sites
http://courses.ncsu.edu/classes/hi300001/bkmarks.htm Sited prepared bt Prof. Richard Slatta provides gateway to primary sources from the entire history of Latin America.
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu:80/ University of Texas mega-site. Broad range of topics and approaches to the study of Latin America.
http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/svolk/latinam.htm Comprehensive list of web resources with an emphasis on primary source documents. Compiled by Steven Volk.
http://www.digital-librarian.com/latinamerican.html Impressive portal to a wide rannge of sites, especially useful for archeology.
http://www.unl.edu/LatAmHis/LatAmLinks.html University of Nebraska's Latin American Studies Program portal. Longs lists of primary sources.
http://historicaltextarchive.com/links.php?op=viewslink&sid=0&cid=13 Site maintained by Donald Mabry provides access to wide of sites dealing with Latin America, many of them historical in nature.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook08.html Colonial Latin American documents anjd secondary sources, part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. Maintained at Fordham University
http://www.mindspring.com/~coatl/pages/mesoam.htm Short but excellent point of access to sites dealing with Mesoamerican civilizations. Maintained by Graham Watkins.
http://www.laceh.com/ Latin America-Colonial Economic History. Maintained by Richard Garner. Primary sources as well as articles on economic history.
   
Specific Topics
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/ Millersburg University site on Columbus. Provides a large number of secondary works dealing with Encounter with/discovery of the Americas.
http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/resources/Murals/index.html Sponsored by the Getty Foundation, this site explores Mexican American murals in Los Angeles along with lesson plans.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1985/4/85.04.06.x.html#a Series of lesson plans dealing with revolts in Latin America, building on The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave, by Esteban Montejo. Part of Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Revolts Against Colonial Rule in Latin America in the Early Nineteenth Century by Peter N. Herndon.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1985/4/85.04.01.x.html Also part of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Three Examples of Precolumbian & Early Colonial Drama by Norine Polio provides access to primary sources for 6-8 grades.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/parcs/atlas/beringia/lbridge.html Atlas of Beringia contains animation of opening of Bering Straits.
http://anza.uoregon.edu/ An Interactive Study Environment on Spanish Exploration and Colonization of "Alta California" 1774-1776. Includes primary source documents and lesson plans. Useful reminder that New Spain reached into northern California.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/ Rich site dealing with life, times and writings of Juana Ines de la Cruz.
http://www.afrikaworld.net/synod/neves.htm Recent statement by the Catholic Church in Bahia regarding the relationship of Catholicism and Afro-Brazilian religions.
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/nattrans/nattrans.htm Well constructed site on The Environment in American History. Designed by TeacherServe from the National Humanities Institute, North Carolina. Contains material aimed at teachers.
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/nattrans/ ntecoindian/essays/columbian.htm One of the TeacherServe units dealing with the Columbian Exchange. By Alfred W. Crosby, Jr.
http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/index.html Spice Pages, a fascinating site maintained by Gernot Katzer, contains information about 117 spices including their history and especially useful is the list of synonyms for each.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/garden/history/ Seeds of Change site. Information related to plants involved inthe Columbian Exchange. Site of the Smithsonian Institute's Natural Partners Initiative. Contains material aimed at teachers.
Slavery
http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/introduction.php Searchable database of slavery and slave trade in Lousiana, 1718-1820. By Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
www.uvawise.edu/history/runaways/index.html Collection of ads for runaway slaves in Virginia. Contains lesson plans for 3 units: Language and Runaway Slave Ads; Planning an Escape; and Runaway Indentured Servants. Includes slaves, servants and deserters.
http://www.whc.neu.edu/afrintro.htm The Atlantic Slave Trade: Demographic Simulation by Patrick Manning, Northeastern University. Permits simulation of impact of slave trade on Africa. Also see Patrick Manning and William S. Griffiths. "Divining the Unprovable:Simulating the Demography of African Slavery," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 19 (1988): 177-201.
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro1.html Records of Slave Ship Movement Between Africa and the Americas, 1817-1843. Compiled by Philip D. Curtin
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history/hislavery.html Africa: South of the Sahara. Compiled by Karen Fung for the African Studies Association. Extension list of sites relatring to slavery, the slave trade, and Africa.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/ PBS site built around the program Jefferson's Blood. Provides insight into ambiguity of race in the U.S.
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~amarsh/whycen1821&22.htm Site based on censuses of 1821/22 of Guadalajara, Mexico. Organized by the History Department, Florida State University.
http://lostamericans.netfirms.com/manifests.htm Lost Americans Website contains two slave ship manifests.

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 Large site maintained by AfriGeneas ~ African Ancestored Genealogy. Very rich set of data bases related to African-American history includes wills, manifests, bills of sale, and census materials.
http://www.africana.com/blackboard/bb_his_000167.htm Africans in Colonial North America #1: Africans in Colonial Virginia and Maryland. Teaching Unit provides interesting models easily adapted.
http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/blackhistory.htm Ancestory.com searchable database of slave narratives.
http://www.portcities.org.uk New site compiled by consortium of five English ports. Contains information on slave trade from ports such as Bristol.
   
Religion
   
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm Patron saints Index maintained by the Catholic Community. Good search engine. Usefully organized by categories such as Healing, Husbandry, Dates.
http://www.udayton.edu/mary/ The Mary Page maintained by The Marian Library at the University of Dayton in Ohio is a rich repository of material related to the Virgin Mary. Useful for study of popular religion. Note 'Marian Titles in the Popular Religiosity of Latin America'