Links

Orange County History

• Orange County Historical Society
• Montpelier
• The Dolley Madison Project

African-American History & Genealogy

• Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts, Edited by Michael Plunkett
• Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
• Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies
  • Proffit Historic District, Albemarle County, Virginia
• Race and Place: An African-American Community in the Jim Crow South (Charlottesville, Virginia)
• The Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs History of education in the South and related sources
• Library of Congress
  • African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
  • African American Odyssey
  • The African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society
  • From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
  • African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University
• Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy
  • African-American Heritage Trails in Virginia
  • African-American History in Virginia Grants
• African American Genealogical Society of Northern California provides links to lots of interesting material on a broad range of issues relevant to African-American Genealogy.
• Christian Science Monitor Black History Project is global in scope, but many of the articles are about the U.S.
• West African Research Association WARA seeks to enhance U.S. and West African scholarship and increase interest in international affairs among Americans through a reciprocal program of research exchange between American and West African scholars and institutions.
• West African Research Center WARC is WARA's overseas office, based in Dakar, Senegal.
• The Freedmen's Bureau Online provides a great wealth of material, including transcriptions of various records from the Freedmen's Bureau and information about current efforts to preserve the original records. From Freedmen's Bureau Online, you can also reach the Black History Pages and many genealogical websites.

Other Potentially Useful Sites

• Library of Virginia
• Virginia Department of Historic Resources
• Universal Black Pages