American and Latin American Studies - Suggested Websites

We suggest the following website as a useful starting point for American and Latin American Studies students.

• African American Slave Narratives
• Brookings
  a key independent source on US economics, governance and foreign policy
• LANIC
  a listing of key web resources covering South and Central America compiled by experts at the University of Texas
• Making of America
  a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through to reconstruction
• Martin Luther King, Jr Research and Education Institute
• The [US] National Archives
  key documents including the Declaration of Independence available online
• National Security Archive
  good for US history and politics
• Political Database of the Americas
  covering North and South America
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States
• Race and Place: an African-American Community in the Jim Crow South
  an archive about racial segregation including photos and letters
• Seattle Times: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
• Slavery and the Making of America
  film and online sources with links to other slavery sites
• THOMAS
  US legislative information from the Library of Congress
• Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
• Truman Presidential Library and Museum
• United States Civil War Center