University of California, Berkeley, InfoSys 182AC, Spring 2002
Mary Kay Duggan, Information Management and Systems

Print, Literacy and Power: To 1900

• About the Course | Syllabus | Reader 2002 | Term Papers
• Images of Oral and Print Culture | Videos
• Moffitt Library Reserve Book List

American Cultures on the World Wide Web

• Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian. 2000 photographic images
• Depictions of slavery in confederate currency
• Documenting the American South, including Books About Slavery, printed before 1920.
• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage, Library of Congress. Inhabitants of America in 1492.
• African American Odyssey, Library of Congress. Slavery, Free Blacks, Abolition, Civil War, Reconstruction.
• The African American Mosaic, Library of Congress.
  Colonization in Liberia, Abolition, Migrations.
• African American Perspectives. Pamphlets from the Murray Collection, 1818-1907.
• My History Is America's History." Highlights: historian and author Adele Logan Alexander, whose great grandfather-born in Liverpool, England, to a black father and Irish mother-came to the United States to help free the slaves during the Civil War and did blockade duty as a seaman with the U.S. navy; blues musician B.B. King, son of a Mississippi sharecropper who gained the inspiration to become a musician from his cousin; Richard Gill Forrester, a 13-year-old black page at the Virginia state capitol in Richmond at the start of the Civil War who rescued the Union flag after it was hauled down from the capitol building by secessionists, kept it hidden, and restored it to the Federal troops who captured Richmond near the war's end.

Texts of American History on the World Wide Web

• Maps in American History. Over 3,000. Zoomable.
• African American History. Mississippi State University.
• Texts in American history. University of Groningen, Netherlands.
• The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia.

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