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ALABAMA--GENERAL REFERENCE

• Alabama Department of Archives and History (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/)
  
• Alabama Bigger Cities (http://www.city-data.com/city/Alabama.htm)
  
• Netstate: Alabama (http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/al_intro.htm)
  
• A Guide to the Fifty States: Alabama (http://www.theus50.com/alabama/history.shtml)
  
• State of Alabama on the Web (http://www.statehousegirls.net/al/)
  
• World Almanac for Kids (http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/WAKI-ViewArticle.aspx?pin=wwwwak-356&article_id=739&chapter_id=15&chapter_title=United_States&article_title=Alabama)
  
• WorldAtlas.com--Alabama (http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/al.htm)
  
• Learning Network: Alabama (http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A0802979.html)
  
• Alabamiana: A Guide to Alabama (http://www.al.com/alabamiana/)
• 50 states.com--Alabama (http://www.50states.com/alabama.htm)
  
• Images of American Political History (http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/_browse.htm)
  
• National Register of Historic Places--Alabama (http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/al/state.html)
  
• Alabama First Lady Patsy Riley (http://www.firstlady.alabama.gov/)

GEOGRAPHY AND MAPS

• Alabama State Maps Collection (http://geology.com/state-map/alabama.shtml)
  
• Alabama Maps (http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/)
  
• Alabama Dept. of Transportation maps (http://www.dot.state.al.us/docs/bureaus/equipment/general+Maps.htm)
  
• Alabama Genealogy: Maps (http://www.alabamagenealogy.org/maps.htm)
  
• Alabama Maps (http://cber.cba.ua.edu/edata/maps.html)
  
• Alabama County Maps (http://www.censusfinder.com/mapal.htm)
  
• Alabama Census and County Formation Maps (http://www.segenealogy.com/alabama/al_maps.htm)
  
• Geologic and Geographic Setting (http://www.geo.ua.edu/Documentation/setting.html)
  
• Alabama maps, The Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/alabama.html)
  
• 1818 Map of Alabama (http://members.aol.com/JORDANJM2/1818AL.html)
  
• Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panmap.html)
  
• Joe's Alabama Road History (http://members.tripod.com/~jkgillis/index.html)

ALABAMA--GENERAL HISTORY

• Alabama Moments in American History (http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/)
• Alabama History Timeline (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/timeline/index.html)
  
• The Alabama Experience (http://www.cptr.ua.edu/alex)
  (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/whatsnew/theses/index.html)
  
• Famous or Historical Alabama People, Places & Events (http://www.bustersoft.com/bookshelf/history.htm)
  
• Photographs from University of South Alabama (http://www.usouthal.edu/archives/)
  
• Historic Postcards of Alabama (http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/digital/pcards/pcard.htm)
  
• Penny Postcards from Alabama (http://www.usgwarchives.org/al/ppcs-al.html)
  
• Auburn University Alabama Cooperative Extension Service Subject Photographs (http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/aghy/aces/admin.htm)
  
• South of the Road: Alabama South of the Old Federal Road (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/3010/alabama.html)
  

ALABAMA INDIANS

• Alabama Indian Affairs Commission (http://aiac.state.al.us)
  
• Alabama Indian Tribes (http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/alabama/index.htm#Muskogee)
  
• Southeastern Prehistory: Paleoindian Period (http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/outline/02-paleoindian/index.htm)
  
• Southeastern Prehistory: Archaic Period (http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/outline/03-archaic/index.htm)
  
• Southeastern Prehistory: Woodland Period (http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/outline/04-woodland/index.htm)
  
• Southeastern Prehistory: Mississippian and Late Prehistoric Period (http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/outline/05-mississippian/index.htm)
  
• Mississippian and Late Prehistoric Period (http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/misslate.htm)
• Arrowhead Pictures (http://www.mindspring.com/~scottr/arrows/arrow.html)
  
• Alabama-Coushatta Indians (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/AA/bma19.htm)
  
• Among the Creeks (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmamcrk4/)
  
• Muscogee: A Study of the Creek Indians (http://jrshelby.com/creek/index.htm)
  
• An Introduction to the Creek Nation (http://ngeorgia.com/history/creek.shtml)
  
• A Creek Indian Bibliography (http://www.rhus.com/Creeks.html)
  
• Creek Lanuguage Archive (http://www.wm.edu/linguistics/creek/)
  
• Creek Indian Researcher (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texlance/main.htm)
  
• The Dawes Commission and the Enrollment of the Creeks (http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/tutorial/dawes/)
  
• Laws of the Cherokee Nation (http://www.commonlaw.com/Cherokee.html)
  
• 1835 Cherokee East of the Mississippi Census Index (http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/1835census/index.htm)
  
• Sequoyah (http://ngeorgia.com/people/sequoyah.html)
  
• The Chickasaw and Their Cessions (http://www.tngenweb.org/tnfirst/chicksaw/index.html)
  
• "Chokmah!" The Chickasaw Historical Research Page (http://www.chickasawhistory.com)
  
• Mississippi History Now -- Chickasaws: The Unconquerable People (http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/index.php?id=8)
  
• Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (http://www.choctawnation.com/)
  
• Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (http://www.choctaw.org/)
  
• Mississippi History Now -- Pushmataha: Choctaw Warrior, Diplomat, and Chief (http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/index.php?id=14)
  
• University of Alabama Museums: Moundville Archaeological Park (http://www.ua.edu/academic/museums/moundville/home.html)
  
• U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (http://www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html)
  

EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT

• Midwestern Conquest Trails -- Alabama (http://www.FloridaHistory.com/alabama.html)
  
• Cabeza de Vaca (http://www.FloridaHistory.com/cabeza.html)
  
• Cabeza de Vaca's La Relación (http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/cdv/)
  
• DeSoto and Mabila (http://hometown.aol.com/RDBoyd/page3.htm)
  
• Passenger list from The Pelican (http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/9630/pelican.html)
  
• Old Mobile Archaeology (http://www.southalabama.edu/archaeology/old_mobile.htm)
  
• Louis LeClerc Milfort's Memoirs (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmamcrk4/mlfrttoc.html)
  
• Old St. Stephens (http://www.oldststephens.com/)
  
• Fort Toulouse (http://www.southalabama.edu/archaeology/fort-toulouse_alabama.htm)
  
• A List of Inhabitants of Mobile in West Florida who have taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Fidelity to His Brittanick Majesty King George the Third. (http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/9630/1763.html)
  
• William Bartram at nationalgeographic.com (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0103/feature5/index.html)
  
• The Travels of William Bartram (http://www.bartramtrail.org)
  
• Bartram Among the Creeks (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmamcrk4/brtrmck1.html)
  
• Alabama Frontier Days (http://www.wetumpkalibrary.com/Default.asp?ID=129)
  

CREEK WAR/STATEHOOD/FRONTIER

• Mississippi History Now -- The Great Migration to the Mississippi Territory, 1798-1819 (http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/index.php?id=169)
  
• Mississippi History Now -- George Strother Gaines (1784-1873): A Leader of Two States, A Servant of Two Peoples (http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/index.php?id=165)
  
• The War of 1812: The Creeks (http://www.galafilm.com/1812/e/people/creeks.html)
  
• The Creek War (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmamcrk4/crkwr1.html)
  
• Night Attack at Calabee Creek (http://www.hsgng.org/pages/nightatt.htm)
  
• Fort Mims (http://www.galafilm.com/1812/e/catalogues/fort756.html)
  
• Fort Mims Massacre (http://www.canerossi.us/ftmims/massacre.htm)
  
• Fort Mims Restoration Association (http://www.fortmims.org)
  
• Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: The Creek War Unit (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/creekwar/creek.html)
  
• Using Primary Sources in the Classrooom: Settlement Unit (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/settle.html)
  
• Halbert & Ball: The Creek War of 1813 and 1814 (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmamcrk4/hbtoc.html)
  
• Pickett's History of Alabama (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmamcrk4/pktfm.html)
  
• The Battle of Horseshoe Bend: Collision of Cultures (http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/54horseshoe/54horseshoe.htm)
  
• Earlyworks (http://www.earlyworks.com/)
  
• Alabama Constitution of 1819 (http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/history/constitutions/1819/1819.htm)
  
• Along the Old Federal Road (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oldfedrd/)
  
• The Eutaw Rangers in the War with Mexico, 1846-1847 (http://www.watermelon-kid.com/history/us/rangers.htm)
  
• Jack Shackleford and the Red Rovers (http://www.wheelerplantation.org/rovers.htm)

CORN AND COTTON ECONOMY

• Antebellum Alabama: Selected Books (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/biblio/antebell.html)
  
• 19th Century Village Life (http://www.mooresvillealabama.com)
  
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/mesnbibStates1.html)
  
• Joseph G. Baldwin's The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi (http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/baldwin/menu.html)
  
• Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: Slavery Unit (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/slavery.html)
  
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html)
  
• Montgomery Slave Auction: Harper's Weekly (http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/7Illustrations/Slavery/SlaveAuctionInTheSouth.htm)
  
• Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave: Electronic Edition. (http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/williams/menu.html)
  
• Kate E. R. Pickard, The Kidnapped and The Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and his Wife Vina after Forty Years of Slavery (http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/pickard/menu.html)
  
• The Alabama Supreme Court and Slaves (http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/aghy/slaves.htm)
  

CIVIL WAR

• Alabama Civil War Soldiers database (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/civilwar/index.cfm)
  
• Willis Brewer's Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/alamilor/mil_org.html)
  
• Alabama Confederate Military Unit Histories at the ADAH (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/reghist.html)
  
• Confederate Regimental History Links (http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/confeds.html)
  
• Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: Civil War Unit (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/civil.html)
  
• Documenting the Civil War Period Flag Collection at the Alabama Department of Archives and History (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/flags/intro.html)
  
• The Civil War in Alabama (http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/alabama.html)
  
• Civil War Alabama (http://groups.msn.com/CivilWarAlabama/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us)
  
• Alabama Civil War Map of Battles (http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/al.html)
  
• The Alabama Civil War Roots Homepage (http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcwroot/)
  
• Alabama in the Civil War Message Board (http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/boards/alcwmb/)
  
• Constitution of the Confederate States of America (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/csa.htm)
  
• William Lowndes Yancey, a Bibliography (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/7647/wly.htm)
  
• William Lowndes Yancey (1814-1863): Famous Orator and Secessionist of the South (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/7647/wly2.htm)
  
• Alabama's Ordinance of Secession (http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/history/constitutions/1861/1861ord1_20.html#anchor588392)
  
• Alabama's Consitution of 1861 (http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/history/constitutions/1861/1861.html)
  
• Confederate Constitution (http://www.maitreg.com/politics/documents/confederate.asp)
  
• Jefferson Davis' First Inaugural Address (http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/resources.cfm?doc_id=1508)
  
• The Papers of Jefferson Davis (http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/)
  
• Historic Blakeley State Park (http://new.siteone.com/sites/blakeleypark.com/civilwar.asp)
  
• The Mobile Campaign/ Battle of Fort Blakeley and Spanish Fort (http://new.siteone.com/sites/blakeleypark.com/battlehistory.htm)
  
• Hawkins' Division of 6,000 Black Troops (http://new.siteone.com/sites/blakeleypark.com/usct.htm)
  
• United States Colored Troops in the Mobile Campaign (http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/MO_USCT.HTM)
  
• CSS Alabama Digital Collection (http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/digital/cssala/main.shtml)
  
• CSS Alabama -- Naval Historic Center (http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-1.htm)
  
• The Official Site of the Friends of the Hunley (http://www.hunley.org/)
  
• The Hunley (http://www.thehunley.com/Artifacts/buttontype.htm)
  
• Denbigh: Archaeology of a Civil War Blockade Runner (http://ina.tamu.edu/denbigh/)
  
• The Selma Campaign (http://members.aol.com/wwhitby/campaign.html)
  
• Elizabeth Lyle Saxon, 1832-1915: A Southern Woman's War Time Reminiscences (http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/saxon/menu.html
  
• Frances Woolfolk Wallace, b. 1835, Diary, March 19-August 25, 1864 (http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/wallace/menu.html)
  
• A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66. (http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/clay/menu.html)
  
• Shelby Iron Company (http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/shelby/menu.html)
  
• Joseph Wheeler: Lt. General, Confederate States General, United States Army, Member of Congress (http://www.arlingtoncemetery.com/jwheeler.htm)
  
• Pond Spring and the Joe Wheeler Home (http://www.wheelerplantation.org/)
  
• Alabama State Memorial at Vicksburg National Military Park (http://www.nps.gov/vick/al/al_stm.htm)
  
• Fort Gaines (http://andy_bennett.home.mindspring.com/gaines.html)
  
• Fort Morgan (http://andy_bennett.home.mindspring.com/morgan.html)
  
• 1st Ala. Cavalry, U.S. Volunteers (http://www.1stalabamacavalryusv.com/)
  
• American Civil War Homepage (http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/)
  
• U.S. Civil War Center (http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/)
  
• The War of the Rebellion (http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ANU4519-0001)
  
• Civil War Prisoner/prison Search Site (http://home.jam.rr.com/rjcourt52/cwprisons/index.html)
  
• Civil War Prisons (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~south1/prisons.htm)
  
• Civil War Photos of Confederate Soldiers (http://www.geocities.com/coh41/home.html)
  
• Confederate Officers Photo Album (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/conoffalb/index.html)
• Civil War Photographs (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html)
  
• The Civil War Preservation Trust (http://www.civilwar.org/)
  
• Jews in the Civil War (http://www.jewish-history.com/civilwar/Default.htm)
  
• National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/)
  
• Civil War Battle summaries by state (http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/bystate.htm)
  
  

RECONSTRUCTION

• Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: Reconstruction Unit (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/recon/reconst.html)
  
• Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama: Selected Books (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/biblio/civilwar.html)
  
• James T. Rapier (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000064)
  
• Banjamin S. Turner (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000414)
  
• Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama, 1867-1878 (http://www.alabamablackhistory.com/scalawag/scalawag1.htm)
  
• Alabama Constitution of 1865 (http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/history/constitutions/1865/1865.html)
  
• Alabama's Constitution of 1868 (http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/history/constitutions/1868/1868.html)
  
• Lincoln Normal School, Marion, Alabama (http://www.ruthk.net/marion/lincoln/)
  
• The Wayfaring Stranger (http://www.cptr.ua.edu/alex/studyguides/wayfar.htm)
  

NEW SOUTH

• Alabama Constitution of 1875 (http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/history/constitutions/1875/1875.html)
  
• The History of Jim Crow (http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm)
  
• Daniel Pratt and Continental Gin Co. (http://www.pratthistory.com/index.htm)
  
• Sloss Furnace (http://www.slossfurnaces.com/media/html/home/sloss_story.php)
  
• Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park (http://www.tannehill.org/)
  
• Shelby Iron Company (http://www.rootsweb.com/~alshelby/shelbyironco.html)
  
• Shelby Iron Works (http://shelbyironworks.typepad.com/)
  
• Alabama's Constitution of 1901 (http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/history/constitutions/1901/1901.html)
  
• Booker T. Washington (http://www.who2.com/bookertwashington.html)
  
• Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington (http://www.bartleby.com/1004/)
  (http://docsouth.unc.edu/washington/menu.html)
  
• The History Cooperative: Booker T. Washington Papers (http://www.historycooperative.org.btw/)
  
• Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/1642b-booker.html)
  
• Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institue Census of 1900 (http://www.dollsgen.com/1900tuskegeenormal.htm)
  
• Legends of Tuskegee (http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/tuskegee/index.htm)
  
• The Progress of a People (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aapindus.html)
  
• Oscar Underwood (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=U000013)
  
• Oscar Wilder Underwood (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/famous/o_under.html)
  
• John Tyler Morgan (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000954)
  
• John H. Bankhead (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000110)
  
• Edmund Winston Pettus (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000279)
  
• The Spanish-American War: Miss Annie's Story (http://www.wheelerplantation.org/miss_SA.htm)
  
• Suffrage in the South (http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/40a01.htm)
  
• Alabama Poorhouses (http://www.poorhousestory.com/poorhouses_in_alabama.htm)
  

WORLD WAR I

• Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: World War I Unit (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/ww1/index.html)
  
• The Rainbow Division (http://www.rainbowvets.org/)
  
• Singing at the Front during WWI (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5328/)
  

1920s

• Erskine Hawkins (http://www.alamhof.org/hawkinse.htm)
  
• Delmore Brothers (http://www.alamhof.org/delmores.htm)
  
• Selected Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/guides/)
  
• W.C. Handy (http://www.alamhof.org/handywc.htm)
  
• W.C. Handy (http://wchandymusicfestival.org/history.htm)
  
• Seven Letters from the Great Migration (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5332/)
  
• "Don[']t Have to Mister Every Little White Boy. . .": Black Migrants Write Home (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5339/)
  
• Warning Against the "Roman Catholic Party": Catholicism and the 1928 Election (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5073/)
  

DEPRESSION AND NEW DEAL

• Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: The Great Depression Unit (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/dep/dep.html)
  
• WPA Life Histories from Alabama (http://rs6.loc.gov/wpaintro/alcat.html)
  
• NACC Reflections Exhibit (http://www.nacc.edu/about/Reflections/reflections_exhibit.htm)
  
• The Scottsboro Boys Trials (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm)
  
• "Without Fear or Favor:" Judge James Edwin Horton and the Trial of the "Scottsboro Boys" (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/essayhorton.html)
  
• On PBS April 2, 2001: "Scottsboro: An American Tragedy" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/)
  
• "The South Speaks," by John Henry Hammond, Jr. (http://newdeal.feri.org/nation/na33465.htm)
  
• Bad Blood: The Troubling Legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (http://www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/apology/)
  
• Internet Resources on the Tuskegee Study (http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/experiment/tuskegee.html)
  
• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/fsa/letus.html)
  
• Walker Evans Photographs Alabama Sharecroppers (http://chnm.gmu.edu/fsa/a/index.html)
  
• James Agee (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/agee.html)
  
• James Agee (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/death/ei_life.html)
  
• America from the Great Depression to WW II: Black and White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html)--Search under "Alabama"
  
• New Deal Network (http://newdeal.feri.org/)--Search under "Alabama"
  
• "This Is What the Union Done": The Story of the United Mine Worlers of America in Song (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/123/)
  
• Southern Mosaic: John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Field Recordings (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html)--Search under "Alabama"
  
• TVA Heritage (http://www.tva.gov/heritage/index.htm)
  
• William Brockman Bankhead (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000113)
  
• Dixie Bibb Graves (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000391)
  
• John Sparkman (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000701)
  
• Hugo Black (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000499)
  
• Lister Hill (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000598)

WORLD WAR II

• Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: World War II Unit (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/ww2/index.html)
  
• Battleship USS Alabama (http://www.ussalabama.com)
  
• Women at War (http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/women/welcome.html)
  
• Redstone Arsenal, WW II (http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/worldwar/worldw.html)
  
• Aliceville Museum (http://alicevillemuseum.pickens.net/)
  
• Fort Rucker (http://www-rucker.army.mil/)
• Boomtown Childersburg (http://www.cptr.ua.edu/childersburg/index.asp)
  
• History of the Army Air Force's Eastern Flying Command (http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/ta_his1.htm)
  
• Tuskegee Airmen bibliography (http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/tusk/tusk.htm)
  
• Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/Tuskegee.html)
  
• Alabama County Casualties World War II (http://www.accessgenealogy.com/worldwar/alabama/)
  

KOREAN WAR

• Alabama Casualties in the Korean War (http://www.archives.gov/research/korean-war/casualty-lists/al-alpha.html)
  
• All POW-MIA Korean War Casualties (http://www.aiipowmia.com/koreacw/kwkia_alabama.html)

VIETNAM WAR

• Vietnam Casualities - Alabama (http://www.archives.gov/research/vietnam-war/casualty-lists/al-by-town.html)
  
• Jeremiah Denton (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000259)
  

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

• The National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture at Alabama State University (http://www.lib.alasu.edu/natctr/index.html)
  
• The History of the Black Belt (http://www.as.ua.edu/amstud/hhistory.htm)
  
• A Reporter Tells of Terrorism in Alabama (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6339/)
  
• Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: Civil Rights Movement Unit (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/rights.html)
  
• The Life and Times of the Prophet Vernon Johns, Father of the Civil Rights Movement (http://members.aol.com/tcal001/vjtofc.html)
  
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott (http://home.att.net/~reniqua/index.htm)
  
• African American/Civil Rights history sources at the ADAH (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/afro/afro.html)
  
• Rosa Parks: Pioneer of Civil Rights (http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0pro-1)
  
• Rosa Parks Museum (http://montgomery.troy.edu/museum/default.htm)
• Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Story of Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement (http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/)
• Montgomery Children's Walk (http://www.montgomerychildrenswalk.org/)
• Rivers of Change (http://www.deidreali.com/rivers/)
• They Changed the World: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/frontpage.htm)
• Powerful Days in Black and White (http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml)
  
• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (http://www.bcri.org/index.html)
  
• In the Memory of Four Little Girls (http://useekufind.com/peace/)
  
• Alabama A&M University State Black Archives Research Center and Museum (http://www.aamu.edu/archivemuseumcenter/)
  
• "Part of the Government Activity": Testimony from an African-American Taxpayer Unable to Vote in Alabama (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6334/)
  
• Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/)
  
• African Americans in the Sciences (http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html)
  
• LBJ for Kids: From Selma to Montgomery (http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/selma-mont.shtm)
  
• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project (http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/)
  
• Freedom Rides (http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/freeride.html)
  
• Alabama Sovereignty Commission photographs of the Selma to Montgomery March (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/cvl/cvl_rit1.html)
  
• George Wallace: Invisible Legacy (http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/spring96/wallace.html)
  
• George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wallace/)
  
• George Wallace's 1963 Gubernatorial Inaugural Address (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/govs_list/inauguralspeech.html)
  
• George Wallace "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" Speech (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/govs_list/schooldoor.html)
  
• Full text of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (http://www.voterights.org)
  
• Southern Poverty Law Center (http://www.splcenter.org/)
  
• Civil Rights Movement Veterans (http://www.crmvet.org/index.htm)

FOLKWAYS, ARTS, LITERATURE AND MUSIC

• Alabama Center for Traditional Culture (http://www.arts.state.al.us/actc/index-folkarts-actc.html)
  
• Alabama Ghostlore (http://facstaff.uwa.edu/ab/ghostlore.htm)
  
• Alabama Authors and Their Works (http://www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/ala_authors/contents.html)
  
• Alabama Literary map (www.alabamaliterarymap.org)
  
• Alabama Writers' Forum (http://www.writersforum.org/overview/index.html)
  
• Alabama Writers' Conclave (http://www.alabamawritersconclave.org/)
  
• SCORE: To Kill A Mockingbird--Teacher Guide (http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/tokil/mocktg.htm)
  
• The TKM Student Survival Guide (http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/index.html)
  
• Harper Lee Teaching Resources (http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/lee_harper/index.html )
  
• Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird (http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Culture/HarperLee/)
  
• Margaret Walker (http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/walker/)
  
• The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project of Starkville High School - Margaret Walker (http://www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Walker.html)
  
• Nicola Marschall: Artist of the Deep South (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/marschall/)
  
• Musics of Alabama (http://www.arts.state.al.us/actc/compilation/introlist.html)
  
• Alabama Music Hall of Fame (http://www.alamhof.org/)
  
• Hank Williams, Sr. (http://www.hankwilliams.com/)
  
• "Hank Williams, Sr.: A Look Back," (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/hank/)
  
• Fame Music, Muscle Shoals, Alabama (http://www.fame2.com/)
  

SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

• Alabama Sports Hall of Fame (http://www.ashof.org/)
  
• Jesse Owens (http://www.jesseowens.com/)
  
• Jesse Owens Museum (http://www.jesseowensmuseum.org/)
  
• Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant (http://bryantmuseum.ua.edu/)
  
• Hank Aaron (http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/A/Aaron_Hank.stm)
  
• Joe Louis (http://www.ibhof.com/jlouis.htm)
  
• Negro Leagues Baseball Online Archives (http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com/)
  
• Historical Web Site of the Alabama-Florida League (http://www.alabama-florida-league.com)
  
• Alabama Drive-in Theatres (http://www.driveintheater.com/list/alabama.htm)
  

SCIENCE AND NATURE

• 100 Trees of Alabama (http://www.forestry.state.al.us/publication/100_trees_of_Alabama.htm)
  
• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/)
  
• Redstone Arsenal Historical Information (http://www.redstone.army.mil/history)
  
• Werner von Braun (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/famous/academy/w_braun.html)
  
• Dr. Wernher Von Braun (http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/index.html)
  
• Alabama Museum of Natural History (http://www.inusa.com/tour/al/tuscaloo/natural.htm)
  
• Alabama Medical History (http://www.anes.uab.edu/alabama_medical_history.htm)
  
• Birmingham Zoo (http://www.birminghamzoo.com/)
  
• Montgomery Zoo (http://zoo.ci.montgomery.al.us/)
  
• Professor David. T. King, Jr: Dinosaurs, impact crater, and more (http://www.auburn.edu/~kingdat/index.html)
  
• Southeast Regional Climate Center (http://www.dnr.state.sc.us/water/climate/sercc/index.html)
  
• History of Hurricanes in Alabama (http://www.mcema.net/hurrhist.htm)
  
• Alabama Tornado Occurrences (http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/tornadoes/index.php)
  
• Top 10 Weather Events This Century for Alabama (http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/review/top10.html)
  
• National Weather Service Forecast Office, Mobile/Pensacola (http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mob/office_history.shtml)
  
• Alabama Seismicity (http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/states/alabama/alabama.html)
  
• Earthquake History of Alabama (http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/states/alabama/alabama_history.html)
  
• Eathquakes in Alabama (http://www.gsa.state.al.us/gsa/EQ2/eq.html)
  
• Inventory of Historic Light Stations: Alabama Lighthouses (http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/al.htm)
  

AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY

• Agri-Tourism in Alabama (http://www.alabamaagritourism.com/)
  
• Weil Brothers' King Cotton Magazine (http://cotton.net/uscottacre.htm)
  
• National Cotton Council's EconCentral (http://risk.cotton.org/profiles/Alabama.htm)
  
• Old Alabama Rails (http://www.oldalabamarails.org/history.html)
  
• Cahaba Coal Field Mining (http://www.rootsweb.com/~alshelby/mining.html)
  
• Economic Development Partnership (http://www.edpa.org/)
  
• Gold Mining History, Tallapoosa County, Alabama (http://jovikri.tripod.com/public-index.html)
  
• Alabama Industrial Directory (http://www.ado.state.al.us/direct1.htm)
  
• The Alger-Sullivan Historical Society (http://algersullivan.org/)
  
• Vulcan Park (http://www.vulcanpark.org/index.html)
  

PUBLICATIONS

• Alabama Genealogical Society Magazine, Contents Index (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/ags/ags_ind1.html)
  
• Alabama Heritage (http://www.alabamaheritage.com/)
  
• Alabama Heritage, table of contents (http://www.lib.auburn.edu/special/docs/alaheritage.html)
  
• Alabama Historical Quarterly, table of contents (http://www.lib.auburn.edu/special/docs/ahistqtr.html)
  
• The Alabama Review (http://www.auburn.edu/~bamarev/)
  
• The Alabama Review, table of contents (http://www.lib.auburn.edu/special/docs/alarevu.html)
  
• Gulf Coast Historical Review, table of contents (http://www.lib.auburn.edu/special/docs/gchr.html)
  
• University of Alabama Press (http://www.uapress.ua.edu/)
  
• Selected Alabama History Books (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/biblio/biblio.html)
  

ORGANIZATIONS

• Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance (http://www.alabama-cemetery-preservation.com/)
  
• Alabama Historical Association (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/aha/aha.html)
  
• Alabama Folklife Association (http://www.alabamafolklife.org)
  
• Local Historical and Genealogical Societies (http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/societies.pdf)
  
• Center for Public Television (http://www.cptr.ua.edu/)
  
• Alabama Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (http://www.alssar.org/)
  
• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (http://www.sar.org/)
  
• Alabama Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (http://www.gulftel.com/asdar/)
  
• National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (http://www.dar.org/)
  
• Sons of Confederate Veterans (http://www.scv.org/)
  
• Alabama Association of Historians (http://dothan.troy.edu/aah/)
  
• Alabama Humanities Foundation (http://www.ahf.net/)
  
• Alabama Library Association (http://allanet.org/)
  
• Alabama Museums Association (http://www.alabamamuseums.org/content.htm)
  
• Auburn University Center for the Arts and Humanities (http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/cah/)
  
• Society of Alabama Archivists (http://www.auburn.edu/sala/)
  

EDUCATION

• AlabamaEd: "All Things Education in Alabama" (http://www.alabamaed.com/)
  
• Alabama Colleges Online (http://www.ache.state.al.us/Colleges&Universities/Directory.htm)
  
• U101 College Search: Directory of Colleges, Universities and Online Education in North America (http://u101.com/alabama.shtml)
  
• Colleges, Community Colleges and Universities in Alabama (http://www.univsource.com/al.htm)
  
• U.S. College Search--Alabama (http://www.uscollegesearch.org/alabama-colleges.html)

ONLINE RESOURCES

• Encyclopedia of Alabama (http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/)
  
• Alabama Postcards (http://www.atozee.com/web/postcards/united-states-postcards/alabama.html)
  
• Alabama Virtual Library (http://www.avl.lib.al.us)
  
• Birmingham Public Library local databases (http://bpldb.bplonline.org/)
  
• The Internet Public Library Reference Center (http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/)
  
• The Political Graveyard (http://www.potifos.com/tpg/)
  
• Alabama Information Directory (http://www.alabamainfo.com/)
  
• Alabama Yellow Pages (http://al.allpages.com/)
• The Real Story of the American Revolution (http://www.rsar.org/)
  
• Library of Congress Learning Page for Digitized Collections (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html)
  
• National Archives Index -- Search under "Alabama" (http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/index.html)
  
• Library of Congress Digitized American Memory Collection (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/)
  
• Library of Congress Learning Page for Digitized Collections (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html)
  
• National Archives Index (http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/index.html)
  
• National Archives Server (http://www.archives.gov/index.html)
  
• Repositories of Primary Sources-Worldwide (http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html)
  
• Internet Resources for Special Collections and Alabama History (http://www.lib.auburn.edu/special/docs/netindex.html)
  
• North America Directories (http://www.northamerica-online.org)

GENEALOGY--ALABAMA

• Alabama Genealogical Society (http://algensoc.org/)
  
• ALGenWeb (http://www.rootsweb.com/~algenweb/index.html)
  
• Alabamians Working for Adoption Reform and Education (http://www.alabama-adoption.org/home.htm)
  
• Alabama African American Genealogy (http://www.rootsweb.com/~alaag/)
  
• Black Belt African American Genealogical and Historical Society, Inc. (http://www.bbaaghs.org/)
  
• Black Families of Alabama's Black Belt (http://www.prairiebluff.com/blackbelt/)
  
• African American Cemeteries Online (http://www.prairiebluff.com/aacemetery/al.htm)
  
• Alabama Tombstone Transcription Project (http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/alabama/index.htm)
  
• Alabama Cemetery Index (http://www.interment.net/us/al/index.htm)
  
• Alabama Obituary Links (http://www.obitlinkspage.com/obit/al.htm)
  
• Online Alabama Death Indexes and Databases (http://www.deathindexes.com/alabama/)
  
• Genealogy Sources on the Internet: Alabama (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/alabama.html)
  
• Local Research at Wallace State College (http://home.hiwaay.net/~wdsmith/collect.htm)
  
• On-line Information Services, Inc. (http://www.olis.com/index.htm) Access to select public records in Baldwin and Mobile Counties.
  
• ROOTS-L Resources: United States Resources: Alabama (http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/USA/al.html)
  
• Some Alabama Censuses Online (http://www.census-online.com/links/AL)
  
• Southeastern Genealogy: Alabama (http://www.segenealogy.com/alabama/)
  
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites (http://www.cyndislist.com/al.htm)
  
• Ghost Towns of Alabama (http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~gtusa/usa/al.htm)
  
• Alabama Genealogy Resources (http://www.all-genealogy.com/united-states/alabama.htm)Return to top of page

  GENEALOGY--GENERAL

• USF Africana Heritage Project (http://www.africanaheritage.com/)
  
• American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island (http://www.ellisisland.org)
  
• Burke's Peerage and Gentry (http://www.burkes-peerage.net/sites/peerageandgentry/sitepages/home.asp)
  
• Bureau of Land Management--Eastern States, General Land Office (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/)
  
• Cemeteries and Cemetery Symbols (http://cemeteries.wordpress.com/)
  
• Discover Your Roots in Germany (http://www.cometogermany.com/roots_flyer.pdf)
  
• Family History Place (http://www.familyhistoryplace.net/)
  
• Explore Genealogy (United Kingdom) (http://www.exploregenealogy.co.uk/)
  
• Family Search (http://www.familysearch.org)
  
• The Genealogy Page -- National Archives (http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/index.html)
  
• Genealogy Home Page (http://www.genhomepage.com/)
  
• Genealogy Resources on the Internet (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/gen_int1.html)
  
• Genealogy Links (http://www.genealogylinks.net/)
  
• Ancestry search (http://www.ancestry.com/main.aspx)
  
• Online Searchable Death Indexes, Records, & Databases (http://www.deathindexes.com/)
  
• National Genealogical Society ((http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/))
  
• North American Genealogy Resources (http://genhomepage.com/northamerican.html)
  
• Passenger Lists on the Internet (http://members.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html)
  
• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (http://www.sar.org/)
  
• Todd Sherman's Other Genealogy Sites List (http://www.afn.org/~afn09444/genealog/gensites.html)
  
• United States Census Bureau Home Page (http://www.census.gov)
  
• Alabama Census Records (http://www.censusfinder.com/alabama.htm)
  
• USGenweb Project (http://www.usgenweb.com/)
  
• Vital Records Information--United States (http://www.vitalrec.com)
  
• Birth, marriage and death records from the United Kingdom (http://www.bmd-certificates.co.uk/)
  
• Yahoo - Arts: Humanities: History: Genealogy (http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/Genealogy)
  
• Family Trees Online (http://www.familytreesonline.co.uk/)
  
• Family Tree Registry (http://www.familytreeregistry.org/)

STATISTICS

• Alabama Kids Data Sheet (http://www.demographics.aum.edu/publications_ds_all.cfm?did=kds&yid=2004)
  
• Alabama Health Data Sheet (http://www.demographics.aum.edu/publications_ds_all.cfm?did=hds&yid=2004)
  
• Alabama Population Data Sheet (http://www.demographics.aum.edu/publications_ds_all.cfm?did=pds&yid=2003)
  
• Blackbelt Fact Book (http://irhr.ua.edu/blackbelt/sourcestable.html)
  
• United States Historical Census Data Browser (http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/)
  
• US Census Bureau--Alabama (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/01000.html)
  
• Local Census (http://www.localcensus.com/)

POLITICS

• Alabama Legislature (http://www.legislature.state.al.us/)
  
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp)
  
• Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform (http://www.constitutionalreform.org/)
  
• Alabama State Democratic Party (http://www.aladems.org/)
  
• Alabama Republican Party (http://www.algop.org/)
  
• Libertarian Party of Alabama (http://www.al.lp.org/index.php)
  
• Alabama Green Party (http://www.alabamagreenparty.org/)
  
• Alabama Independent Party (http://www.usiap.org/States/AL/AlabamaIndex.html)
  
• Alabama American Reform Party (http://www.americanreform.org/ARP-State-Affiliates/alabama.html)
  
• Natural Law Party of Alabama (http://www.natural-law.org/states/Alabama.html)
  
• Alabama Patriot Party (http://www.patriotparty.us/state/al/index.htm)
  
• Constitution Party of Alabama (http://www.alconstitutionparty.org/)
  
• Communist Party USA (http://www.cpusa.org/)
  
• Politics1 (http://www.politics1.com/al.htm)
  
• D.C.'s Political Report: Minor Parties Links (http://www.dcpoliticalreport.com/PartyLink.htm)
  

ARCHIVES, MUSEUMS, & LIBRARIES

• Alabama Museum Directory (http://www.alabamamuseums.org/museum.htm)
  
• Alabama Center of Military History (http://www.memorialmuseum.org/default.htm)
  
• Great Museums: Alabama Museums (http://www.greatmuseums.org/alabama.html)
  
• Wiregrass Museum of Art (http://www.wiregrassmuseum.org/)

Updated: June 11, 2008
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/netres.html

	Alabama Department of Archives & History 624 Washington Avenue Montgomery, Alabama 36130-0100 Phone: (334) 242-4435 E-Mail:mark.palmer@archives.alabama.gov