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Chapter 18 - New Frontiers South and West

Images and Maps

The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture

The African American Holocaust
(Images of lynchings)

American Lynchings

Sharecropping

WestWeb

New Perspectives on the West

Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
(This site also contains thousands of primary sources.)

Native Americans: Images

Index of Tribes from "The North American Indian"

Map: Land Transfers from Native Americans to Whites, 1775-1894

Custer Battlefield Historical Museum Association

Today in History: Custer's Last Stand

Famous Pioneer Towns, Forts and Places

Trail Drives of the Old West

History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library

Massacre At Wounded Knee, 1890

Wounded Knee

Today in History: Wounded Knee Massacre

 

Primary Sources

Henry W. Grady, "The New South," 22 December 1886

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, "Lynch Law in Georgia"

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P.Murray Collection, 1818-1907

The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U. S. 3 (1883)

First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920

"Jim Crow" Laws

The Mississippi Plan, 1875

U.S. Supreme Court, Williams v. State of Mississippi, 170 U.S. 213 (1898)

Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537 (1896)

Booker T. Washington, "The Awakening of the Negro," September 1896
(From the Atlantic Monthly)

Booker T. Washington, "The Case of the Negro," November 1889
(From the Atlantic Monthly)

Booker T. Washington, "Industrial Education for the Negro," September 1903

W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Evolution of Negro Leadership," 16 July 1901

W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Talented Tenth," September 1903

"Condition of the Indian tribes. Report of the joint special committee, appointed under joint resolution of March 3, 1865"

Simon Pokagon, "An Indian on the Problems of His Race"

Bureau of Indian Affairs
(The official site)

Native American Documents Project
(Includes the Dawes Severalty Act)

Documents on the Sand Creek Massacre

The Battle of Little Bighorn: An Eyewitness Account by the Lakota Chief Red Horse Recorded in Pictographs and Text at the Cheyenne River Reservation, 1881

Wovoka's Message: The Promise of the Ghost Dance

Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee

Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Problem of the West," September 1896
(From the Atlantic Monthly)

Women Pioneers in American Memory

 

Secondary Sources

Patricia Condon Johnston, "Seth Eastman's West"

Wild West
(A wealth of articles from this magazine)

Comanche History

 

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