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Culture, Education, & History
- African Elections Database: Liberia (Albert C. Nunley, via Tripod.Com, USA)
- Christine's Genealogy Website: Roll of Emigrants that have been sent to the colony of Liberia, Western Africa, 1820-1843 (USA)
- Comprehensive Peace Agreement Between the Government of Liberia and the LURD and MODEL and Political Parties, 18 August 2003, Accra, Ghana (via USIP Peace Agreements Digital Collection: Liberia, Washington, DC)
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Constitution of the Republic of Liberia
- Cooperative Africana Microform Project: Rescuing Liberian History: Preserving the Personal Papers of William V. S. Tubman, Liberia's Longest Serving President (The Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, Illinois)
- Cornell University Library: Liberian Law (Ithaca, New York)
A searchable catalog of holdings and selected online materials originally from 19th century Liberia held by Cornell University; plus a bibliography of online and print resources on a variety of subjects: constitutions, slavery/forced labor, war crimes, peacekeeping, Liberia life & customs, Liberian-American history, customary law, etc.
- Cuttington University College, The Episcopal Church of Liberia, Monrovia
- Ethnologue Country Index: Languages of Liberia (SIL International, Dallas, Texas)
A basic reference with list of languages, descriptions for each language, and a map.
- Google Books on Liberia (USA)
- "Search" for Liberia: all "full view" online books
- As of June 2, 2008, a search for Liberia yielded over 140 works including selected issues of The African Repository and other titles published by the American Colonization Society and a variety of books, such as:
-- A dictionary of the Grebo language (1860) by Rt. Rev. John Payne. -- New York: Edward O. Jenkins, 1860.
-- Four years in Liberia: a sketch of the life of the Rev. Samuel Williams...(1857) -- Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1857.
-- The future of Africa: being addresses, sermons, etc., etc. (1862) by Rev. Alexander Crummell. 2nd ed. -- New York: Charles Scribner, 1862.
-- History of the American colony in Liberia, from December 1821 to 1823 (1826) by Jehudi Ashmun. -- Washington: Way & Gideon, 1826.
-- Negro culture in West Africa: a social study of the Negro group of Vai-speaking people...(1914) by George W. Ellis. -- New York, The Neale Publishing Company, 1914.
See also: Koelle's Vei grammar and Vei-English vocabulary below.
-- Our origin, dangers and duties: the annual address before the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Monrovia, July 26, 1865, The Day of National Independence...by Rev. Edward W. Blyden. -- New York: John A. Gray & Green, 1865.
- A sociolinguistic survey of the Grebo language area of Liberia (2002) by Sue Hasselbring & Eric Johnson SIL electronic survey reports; 2002-074 (SIL International, Dallas, Texas)
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Indiana University Libraries: Liberian Collections Project (Archive of Traditional Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana)
This website provides information about the project, searchable inventory lists for several collections, and related information. 'The collections include historical and ethnographic documents, newspapers, government publications, books, journals, dissertations, maps, slides, negatives, photographs, audio & video tapes, etc.'
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Liberia: Past and Present of Africa's Oldest Republic (F.P.M.Van der Kraaij, Ph.D., Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
A political history outline, with biographical entries, maps, photos, links to e-books, and historical summaries; plus selected news and current issues links.
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The Liberian Studies Association (via Colgate University, Hamilton, New York)
- The Library of Congress -- Liberia (Washington, DC)
- The African-American Mosaic: Colonization -and- Liberia A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
A selection of 19th century photographs & prints for a 2005 online exhibition sponsored by the Prints & Photographs -and- Manuscripts Divisions.
- American Memory: American Colonization Society Collection: Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870
A searchable online collection of twenty maps of Liberia from various sources, including the American Colonization Society, 'organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa.'
- Search the LC online catalog (A keyword search for Liberia yields over 2900 hits.)
- Music of Liberia on the Internet
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration on Liberia (College Park, Maryland)
- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Liberia in the NYPL Digital Gallery (The New York Public Library, New York)
At this web site, digital images of over 400 items from the collections relating to Liberian history and culture are accessible online to the public worldwide.
-- Search the online catalog for all Schomburg Center holdings on Liberia.
-- See also, the home page of the Center.
- Sea Breeze Journal of contemporary Liberian writings. (Online) -- Castro Valley, California: The Journal, 2004-
A bi-annual publication of essays, poetry, art, and photography by Liberian artists and writers in the diaspora.
- TLC Africa -- Research Liberia (USA)
An Internet magazine featuring several pages on Liberian history, with photos, maps, and related links.
- United States Institute of Peace -- Peace Agreements on Liberia, 1993-2003 (Washington, DC)
- University of Liberia, Monrovia
- University of Virginia, Electronic Text Center: The Liberian Letters (19th century) (Charlottesville, Virginia)
"...two collections of letters written by former slaves from Virginia who settled in Liberia: Samson Ceasar's letters to David S. Haselden and Henry F. Westfall, 1834-1835 and Letters from the former slaves of Terrell, 1857-1866."
- University of Wisconsin, Data and Information Services Center: Liberia Roll of Emigrants, 1820-1843 and Census 1843 (Madison, Wisconsin)
The data represent individuals who were brought to the colony by the American Colonization Society.
-- See also: Emigrant to Liberia, 1820-1843: an alphabetical listing (1971). Compiled by Tom W. Shick. Liberian studies research working paper; no. 2. (Online) -- Madison, Wisconsin: Department of History, University of Wisconsin, 1971.
- Outlines of a grammer of the Vei language, together with a Vei-English vocabulary; and an account of the discovery and nature of the Vei mode of syllabic writing (1854) by Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle. Internet Archive: Canadian Libraries
(San Francisco, California)
-- See also, Negro Culture in West Africa (1914) by George W. Ellis above.
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