| | Author: | Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Address on the impolicy of slavery, 1824
| | | | Dates: | 1824 | | | | Abstract: | An example of an address given during the antebellum abolition movement. | | | | Call #: | Mss.371.974.As7 | | | | Extent: | 1 item(s) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | Antebellum Politics | Association for the Education of Men of Colour. | Manuscript Essays | Slavery -- United States. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Speeches. | Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836. | |
| | Author: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society [ACLS Collection]
| | | | Dates: | 1853, 1882-1959 | | | | Abstract: | There are at least two items in this collection which may be of interest to scholars of African American history: Hurston, Zora Neale. " The Florida Expedition (#46)." n.d. 3 pages. Brief report by a student of Franz Boas on fieldwork in Florida studying African American folklore, story-telling, religion, and common-held beliefs. Hurston notes that "the bulk of the population now spends its leisure in motion picture theatres or with the phonograph and its blues." King, Louis E. " Negro life in a rural community (#49)." Circa 1931. 166 pages. Anthropological dissertation study of African American life in a rural community during the years 1927-1931. The work is divided into several sections: Background, Family Life, Breadwinning and Shelter, Education, Activities of the Group, Leaving Home, and Comparing Life in Different Rural Communities.. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.B63c | | | | Extent: | 80 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | 'Nak'waxda'xw | 'Namgis | Achumawi language | African Americans -- Florida | African Americans -- Folklore | African Americans -- West Virginia | Airplanes | American ginseng | Anishinaabe | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Ants -- Folklore | Athapascan languages | Atsugewi language | Autobiography | Awa'etłala | Babies -- Care | Banister, John, Jr. | Baptists -- North Carolina -- History | Basket making | Bears | Bella Coola Indians | Bella Coola language | Benin -- History | Betrothal | Birds -- Folklore | Cats -- Folklore | Chatino language | Chehalis language | Cherokee Indians -- Economic conditions | Cherokee Indians -- Education | Cherokee Indians -- Fishing | Cherokee Indians -- Folklore | Cherokee Indians -- Funeral customs and rites | Cherokee Indians -- Games | Cherokee Indians -- Government relations | Cherokee Indians -- History | Cherokee Indians -- Land tenure | Cherokee Indians -- Marriage customs and rites | Cherokee Indians -- Material culture | Cherokee Indians -- Medicine | Cherokee Indians -- Military service | Cherokee Indians -- Music | Cherokee Indians -- Politics and government | Cherokee Indians -- Religion | Cherokee Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Cherokee Indians -- Social life and customs | Cherokee Indians -- Violence against -- Tennessee | Cherokee dance | Cherokee language | Child care | Children -- Death | Chimakum language | Chinese language | Chiricahua language | Christianity -- Africa | Chukchi -- History | Clothing and dress -- Middle East | Comox Indians | Corn -- Folklore | Creation -- Mythology | Cree language | Culture, community, organizations | Cyanotypes | DEnaxdax | Da'naxda'xw | Dakota language | Dictionaries. | Dogs -- Folklore | Drawings. | Dzawada'enuxw | Ethnographic texts | Ethnology -- Africa | Ethnology -- Russia | Ethnology -- United States | Face painting | Fairs -- North Carolina | Field notes. | Fijians -- Social life and customs | Fire -- Folklore | Folk music -- Puerto Rico | Folklore | Folklore -- Africa | Folklore -- British Columbia | Folklore -- Florida | Folklore -- Uganda | Gelatin silver prints | Geological Survey of Canada. | Ghost stories | Ghosts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Gop'inuxw | Gourds | Group portraits | Gusgimukw | Gwasala | Ha'xwamis | Haida Indians | Haida language | Haudenosaunee | Heiltsuk Indians | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Hopi language | Hupa language | Hymns | Illustrations. | Imprisonment -- North Carolina | Indians of North America -- Alaska | Indians of North America -- British Columbia | Indians of North America -- Languages | Inuktitut language | Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 | Jews, Ethiopian | Kalapuya language | Kalibala, Ernest B. | Kalispel language | Kathlamet language | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kootenai language | Koskimo | Kwagu'ł | Kwakiutl language | Kwikwasutinuxw | Laguna dialect | Lillooet language | Linguistics | Ma'amtagila | Makah Indians | Mamalilikala | Mandan language | Maps. | Mayan languages | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Milky Way -- Folklore | Mooney, James, 1861-1921 | Mukasa, Ham, 1871-1956 | Nahuatl language | Nass language | Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- North Carolina | Navajo language | Nez Percé language | Nitinat language | Nootka Indians | Nootka language | North Carolina | Northwest Coast Indians | Ntlakyapamuk language | Nuu-chah-nulth | Nuxalk Indians | Ojibwe people | Omens | Oowekeeno Indians | Owls -- Folklore | Philadelphia (Pa.) | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Plantations | Pleiades -- Folklore | Pomo language | Powwows | Quileute Indians | Quileute language | Rabbits -- Folklore | Religion, religious organizations | Salish Indians | Salishan languages | Sarsi Indians | Sarsi language | Sermons | Shasta language | Sioux Nation | Sketches. | Slip files | Smallpox -- United States -- History | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Social psychology | Sound recordings | Sturtevant, Edgar Howard, 1875-1952 | Swearing | Tarahumara language | Tarascan language | Tlingit Indians | Tlingit language | Tolowa language | Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 | Tsetsaut Indians | Tsimshian language | Tsuut'ina language | Tunica language | Turtles -- Folklore | Twi (African people) | Tłatłasikwala | United States -- Emigration and immigration. | United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) | Volga River Region (Russia) -- History | Wailaki language | Warren, John | Watercolors | Winnebago language | Wintu language | Witches -- Folklore | Word lists | World War I | World War, 1939-1945 | Wuikinuxv | Xuyalas | Yana language | Zapotec language | Ławit'sis | |
| | Author: | American Eugenics Society | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Eugenics Society Records
| | | | Dates: | 1916-1973 | | | | Abstract: | Eugenics was inevitably entangled in many aspects of American social and political life, and particularly in setting and supporting national policy with regard to immigration and the treatment of ethnic and racial minorities. The records in this collection may prove useful to students of African American history in this regard. | | | | Call #: | Mss.575.06.Am3 | | | | Extent: | 12 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | American Eugenics Society | Behavioral genetics, IQ | Biographical and personal data | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Business | Business -- Newsletters | Carnegie Corporation | Committee activities | Committee activities -- Massachusetts | Committee activities -- Pennsylvania | Committee activities -- Utah | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Educational matters -- Research programs | Embryology, developmental genetics | Eugenics | Eugenics -- Societies, etc. | Eugenics -- United States | Fellowships, assistantships | Fellowships, assistantships -- University of Michigan | Fitter Family Contests | Genetics -- Societies, etc. | Graduate study | Harvard University | History of biology, especially genetics | Human evolution, physical anthropology | Human genetics | Human genetics -- Pedigrees | Human genetics -- Race | International Congress of Eugenics -- Second Congress | Lectures, public speaking -- Sermons | Maps | National Research Council | Osborn, Frederick, 1889-1981 | Photographs | Political issues | Political issues -- Birth control | Population Council | Population genetics | Population, demography | Princeton Conferences | Publication | Race, race relations, racism | Research support | Research support -- Bajema, Carl Jay | Reviews | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Population Council | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Society for the Study of Social Biology | Solicitations for support or contribution | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Whitney, Leon Fradley, 1894-19 | World War II -- Impact on science | |
| | Author: | American Philosophical Society | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Philosophical Society Archives
| | | | Dates: | 1743-1984 | | | | Abstract: | The APS archives does not contain a tremendous amount of African American history materials. Nevertheless, the following letter is significant: Dearborn, Benjamin. Letter to the American Philosophical Society. 1803 February 4. Suggestions on the abolition of slavery. | | | | Call #: | APS.Archives | | | | Extent: | 192.25 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Adena culture -- West Virginia | African American | American Philosophical Society | Anishinaabe | Astronomy -- 18th century | Aztecs. | Bache, A.D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bache, Franklin (1792-1864) | Bell, Whitfield J. (Whitfield | Brown, Samuel, 1768-1805 | Cherokee Indians | Choctaw Indians | Colonial Politics | Dercum, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1856-1931 | Early National Politics | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Education | Grave Creek Mound (Marshall County, West Virginia) | Hanson, Laura E. | Hassler, F. R (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843 | History of science and technology. | Indians of Mexico | Indians of North America -- Kentucky | Indians of North America -- Mississippi | Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast | Indians of North America -- West Virginia | Institutional Records | Keen, William W. (William Williams) | Lingelbach , William E. (William Ezra), 1871-1962 | Miscellaneous | Morris, Roland Sletor, 1874-19 | Mound builders | Native America | Native American Materials | Natural history | Natural history -- 18th century | Natural history -- 19th century | Ojibwe people | Patterson, , Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Pencil works | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Plains Indians | Priestly, Joseph R. | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Shryock, Richard Harrison (1893-1972) | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Southeast Indians | United States History. | Vautravers, Jean-Rodolphe | Warden, David Baillie, 1772-18 | Wood, George Bacon, 1797-1879 | |
| | Author: | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
| | | | Dates: | 1799-1882 | | | | Abstract: | One of the most important natural historians in nineteenth-century Britain, Charles Darwin provided the first compelling mechanism to account for organismal evolutionary change. In at least two letters in the Darwin collection, the naturalist reflects upon the nature of race. In a letter dated 8 October [1845], Darwin questions whether there is a connection between race and susceptibility to different types of lice. In a letter dated 25 October [1859], Darwin dispels other scientists' claims that there are several species of man. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D25 | | | | Extent: | 2.5 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Adaptation (Biology) | Beyond Early America | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Coral reefs and islands | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Darwin, Jane -- Trials, litigation, etc. | Evolution (Biology) | Evolution -- Religious aspects | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Forbes, David, 1828-1876 | Foster, M., Sir (Michael), 1836-1907 | Genetics | Geology -- Great Britain -- 19th century | Golden, Sybil Rebecca | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Gulick, John Thomas, 1832-1923 | Günther, Albert C. L. G. (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf), 1830-1914 | Hancock, Albany, 1806-1873 | Herbert, John Maurice, 1808-1882 | Heredity | Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 | Human evolution | Lankester, E. Ray, Sir (Edwin Ray), 1847-1929 | Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 | Lubbock, J. W. (John William), 1803-1865 | Natural history -- Great Britain -- 19th century | Natural selection | Naturalists -- England | Ogle, William, 1827-1912 | Phillips, John, 1800-1874 | Quatrefages, A. de (Armand de), 1810-1892 | Race, race relations, racism | Ramsay, A. C. (Andrew Crombie), 1814-1891 | Religion and science -- 1860-1899 | Romanes, George John, 1848-1894 | Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick, 1811-1882 | Transmutation of animals | Variation (Biology) | Walsh, B. D. (Benjamin Dann), 1808-1869 | Wyman, Jeffries, 1864- | |
| | Author: | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1920-2000 | | | | Abstract: | The Wallace Papers contain at least one set of materials which may be of interest to students of African American History: Lott, Steve. [Student at West Chester State College.] "Slavery." 1972. Photocopied introduction to Lott's paper "Industrialization and the Black Population in S.E. Penna., 1780-1840." Includes 36 bibliographic index cards pertaining to sources in African American history in Pennsylvania, focusing on slavery and abolitionism. Also includes a photocopy of Joseph E. Walker's "A Comparison of Negro and White Labor in a Charcoal Iron Community" from the journal Labor History, volume 10, number 3 (1969). | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.64a | | | | Extent: | 103.5 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Akwesasne Counselor Organization | American Anthropological Association | American Philosophical Society | Anishinaabe | Anthracite coal industry -- United States -- Pennsylvania | Anthropology -- Methodology | Anthropology -- Research | Anthropology -- Study and teaching. | Arctic hysteria | Baird, Henry Carey, 1825-1912 | Blacksnake, Governor, ca. 1753 | British Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill County | Broomall, John Martin, 1816-18 | Carey family | Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Carte de visite photographs | Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County | Chester County (Pa.) -- History | Chittibhol, Bancha (Thai stude | Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 | Coal -- Geology -- Pennsylvania | Coal mine accidents -- Pennsylvania -- History | Coal trade -- Pennsylvania -- History | Cognition and culture | Congdon, Charles E. (Charles Edwin) | Cornplanter, 1732-1836 | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Counterinsurgency -- Thailand | Cross-cultural studies | Cults | Culture | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Delaware County (Pa.) -- History | Delaware Indians -- New York (State) -- History | Delaware Indians -- Pennsylvania -- History | Disasters | Disasters -- Psychological aspects | Disasters -- Social aspects | Domestic relations -- Pennsylvania -- 19th century | Du Pont de Nemours family | Du Pont family | Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977 | Ethnicity -- Pennsylvania -- History | Ethnohistory | Ethnopsychology | Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Foster, Michael K. | Gelatin silver prints | Geology -- Pennsylvania | Germans -- Pennsylvania | Goodenough, Ward Hunt | Gouaches -- Color | Gowen, Franklin B. (Franklin B | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Handsome Lake, 1735-1815 | Haudenosaunee | Hsu, Francis K. | Hypocalcemia | Hypoglycemia | Indians of North America -- Claims | Indians of North America -- Government relations | Indians of North America -- Missions | Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- History | Industrialization -- Pennsylvania -- History | Industries -- Pennsylvania -- History | Inuit -- Greenland | Irish -- Pennsylvania | Iron industry and trade -- History | Iroquois Indians -- Civilization and social life | Iroquois Indians -- Folklore | Iroquois Indians -- Government relations | Iroquois Indians -- History | Iroquois Indians -- Religion | Iroquois Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Iroquois Indians -- Social conditions | Iroquois Indians -- Social life and customs | Jackson, Halliday,1771-1835. | Jennings, Francis P. | Kehoe, John, 1837-1878 | Kinzua Dam | Labor and laboring classes -- Pennsylvania -- History | Labor movements -- History | Labor, industrialization | Lammot family | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Lowell (Mass.) -- History | Maps. | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | Millenialism | Mills and millwork | Mohawk nation at Akwesasne | Molly Maguires | National Science Foundation | Nativistic movements | Negatives | Newspaper clippings. | Nutrition -- Psychological aspects | Onondaga Indians | Paranoia | Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955 | Pennsylvania -- History | Personality and culture | Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Piblokto | Postal cards. | Power (Social sciences) | Prophets | Psychiatric hospital care | Psychiatry | Psychobiology | Psychology | Psychology and religion | Psychotherapy patients | Quakers -- Pennsylvania | Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- History | Religion | Religion and science | Revitalization movements | Richter, Daniel (two letters, | Rockdale (Pa.) -- History | Rorschach test | Rorschach tests | Schizophrenia | Schizophrenia -- Genetic aspects | Schizophrenia -- Physiological aspects | Schizophrenics | Schuylkill County (Pa.) -- History | Scrapbooks. | Sellers family | Seneca Indians | Seneca Indians -- History | Seneca Indians -- Religion | Seneca Indians -- Social life and customs | Siney, John, 1835-1881 | Six Nations Indian Museum | Sketches. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Slides. | Smith Family | Social change | Social movements | Social sciences -- Methodology | Society of Friends | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Spiro, Melford Elliott | St. Clair (Pa.) -- History | Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining -- United States -- Pennsylvania | Sturtevant, William C. | Technological innovation | Technology -- Social aspects | Textile industry | Textile machinery | Textile manufacturers -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County | Textile workers -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County | Tintypes | Transportation -- Pennsylvania -- History | Tuscarora Indians | Tuscarora Indians -- Social life and customs | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015 | Woodcuts -- Color | Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century | World War, 1939-1945 | |
| | Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ashley Montagu Papers, 1927-1999
| | | | Dates: | 1927-1999 | | | | Abstract: | Scholars of African American history will find much useful information on the subject of race in this collection. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.109 | | | | Extent: | 57 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abbie, Andrew Arthur, 1905-1976 | Anthropology | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Askenasy, Hans | Benton, William, 1900-1973 | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Briffault, Robert | Buhler, Charlotte Malachowski, 1893-1974 | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Clark, Wilfrid E. Le Gros (Wilfrid Edward Le Gros), 1895-1971 | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus | Elkin, A. P. (Adolphus Peter), 1891-1979 | Evans, Bergen, 1904-1978 | Freeman, Derek | Fromm, Erich,1900-1980 | Gender | Goldstein, Marcus S. (Marcus Solomon), 1906-1997 | Gould, Stephen Jay | Keith, Arthur, Sir, 1866-1955 | Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960 | La Barre, Weston, 1911-1996 | Matson, Floyd W. | McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980 | Meade, Margaret, 1901-1978 | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | Oakley, Kenneth Page | Race, race relations, racism | Race. | Sarton, George, 1884-1956 | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Social inequality | Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich, 1889-1968 | Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956 | |
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