Black PastBlackPast.org includes an online encyclopedia, transcripts of over 125 speeches given between 1789 and 2008, over 100 primary documents, and links to dozens of digital archive collections. BlackPast.org originated as online project of Quintard Taylor, the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at the University of Washington, and his graduate assistant, George Tamblyn, to post reference materials to supplement Taylor’s class lectures.