WWW Links and Works Cited

I have tried to collect here links to variety of resources.  Good luck in your research!

• UGRR Associations and Societies
• Online UGRR Research Guides
  • Stations of the UGRR
  • People of the UGRR
• Books and Works Cited
  • Online books

UGRR Associations and Societies

• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center - WOW! This group has put together a tremendous amount of information.   Very nicely done.  Check out their links page if you want to keep surfing.
  Also, a Senate Bill that benefits this Cincinnati online museum.
• The North Star: Tracing the Underground Railroad - Includes a forum for people with research questions.
• UGRR: Special Resource Study - This site presents the results of the National Park Service's 1990 study of the Underground Railroad. A must-see for researchers!
• Aboard the UGRR - A   travel itinerary of historic places for interested travelers.  From the National Park Service.

Online UGRR Research Guides

• Learn More about the UGRR - A guide from the NPS.
• Yahoo! Underground Railroad Links
• Conducting UGRR Research - A guide from the North Star Foundation.
• Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives - Hosted by the University of Kansas.
• Researching people of the Civil War Era - Notes for researchers provided by the U.S. Civil War Center.
• Stories of the Underground Railroad -- Notes from the Shock Family.
• An Anglo-American Traveller's Diaries -- A Yorkshire Quaker Merchant's Journey by Sail, Steam and Stage (home page for a book)

Researching UGRR Stations

• List of Sites - Well-organized database of important stations and destinations of the UGRR. State-by-state organization. From the National Park Service.
• Levy Coffin House - Excellent page about the so-called "Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad" in Indiana.

Researching UGRR People

• Harriet Tubman & The Underground Railroad for Children
• Levi Coffin - President of the UGRR - from the Indiana Historical Society.
• Delawarean: Thomas Garrett - from the State of Delaware
• Memoir of Esther Whinery Wattles - the complete memoirs of this Quaker are available online from this family info site.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - "In his Journal, Thoreau writes about a number of times he assisted fugitive slaves on their way north." A site maintained by the University of California, Santa Barbara library.  (See the 5th question on the FAQ page.
• Thoreau's essay on "Slavery in Massachusetts."  Address delivered at the Anti-Slavery Celebration, at Framingham, July 4, 1854.

Books and Works Cited

• Bial, Raymond. The Underground Railroad (1995).
• Hamilton, Virginia. Anthony Burns: Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave - Interesting site of this writer of children's books.
• Stein,Conrad.  The Story of Underground Railroad (1981). Chicago: Childrens Press.
• Still, William. The Underground Rail Road. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 1870.   This classic book has recently been republished by Ayer Publishing Company.
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: Signet, 1966.
• Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. 1855 (first publication) - 1892 (final publication).
  
• Books and a link to Shields Library at UCD (this site's host.)

Online Book Collections

• Malaspina Great Books Home Page - A truly wonderful resource that indexes out-of-copyright works from all disciplines.
  http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/template.htx
  
• InterGO Free Library - Another collection of e-texts.
  http://www.teachersoft.com/Library/library.htm
  
• Project Gutenberg - Well-organized index and search engine of the many public domain text collections that are out there in FTP land.
  http://promo.net/pg/
  

Last Updated on 02/11/03