This page brings together free online books, topic searches, audiobooks, and Open Access resources related to African American history, including slavery, emancipation, civil rights, Black culture, community life, biography, politics, and social history. The materials range from older public domain works to modern scholarly studies.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
Sections below Topics provide links to textbooks, audiobooks and modern Open Access books. See those sections for more information.
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Topics – African American History Books Online
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to African American history books. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable books, periodicals, and other documents. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by year, language, or related subjects.
Open Access African American History Textbook PDF Free Download
The selected free online books below provide an alternative to searching Internet Archive through the Topics section above. These individual titles were chosen as especially useful or representative works related to subjects on this page.
Open Access Free Textbooks Black History PDF
Open Access textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used, and were published or updated in recent years. You may also find here other learning resources, such as course lesson plans.
African American History and Culture – African American History Textbook PDF
Florida State College at Jacksonville
Achieving the Dream 2021
This textbook covers a variety of topics related to African American History and culture, from African Origins to the Reconstruction era.
Our Lives: An Ethnic Studies Primer – African American History Textbook PDF
Rowena Bermio, Vera Kennedy
Hancock College 2022
Content focuses on major concepts, theories, perspectives, and voices in ethnic studies with research from anthropology, history, political science, psychology, and sociology to offer an inclusive approach for critical inquiry. Modules include learning objectives, a list of key terms and concepts, applications (exercises), biological reflections (stories), summary, and review questions.
Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S.: An Intersectional Approach – African American History Textbook PDF
Carlos Ramos, Janet Hund, et al
LibreTexts 2022
With an eye on social justice and intersectionality, the text provides a sociological analysis of the history, demographics, and contemporary experiences of the following race-ethnic groups: African Americans, Asian American Pacific Islanders, Euro Americans, Latinx, Native Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, and immigrants.
Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience (Second Edition) – African American History Textbook PDF
Gwendolyn Graham, Joshua Farrington, et al
Eastern Kentucky Univ. 2022
Gives instructors, students, and general readers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of African Americans’ cultural and political history, economic development, artistic expressiveness, and religious and philosophical worldviews in a critical framework.
An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution – Free African American History Textbook PDF
Jenny Halpin, Jonathan Elmore
Univ. System of Georgia 2022
Corrects, expands, and celebrates the presence of the African Diaspora in the study of British Literature, undoing some of the anti-Black history of British studies.
Free Audio Books Black History Download
These audiobook links lead to public domain recordings from LibriVox at Internet Archive. The books recorded by Librivox volunteers were nearly all published before 1930. Recordings include historical works, biographies, books on civil rights and racism, and books on slavery.
All Librivox audiobooks are free and can be streamed online or downloaded for offline listening.
Open Access African American History PDF Download Free
The Open Access books and other materials below are modern works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other organizations. Many reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can also be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
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