LIBS 304 - The American South

From the source: The Center for the Study of the American South is an academic hub that seeks to nurture rigorous scholarship, critical conversations, and creative expressions for a diverse and changing South. The Center’s work includes Southern Cultures, an award-winning peer-reviewed quarterly, the Southern Oral History Program, a nationally-recognized leader in oral history research, collection, and teaching.

From Source: Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Early Maps of the American South provides links to many different maps covering areas of the southern United States, from the 16th through the 18th centuries.

Access online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films.

Links to full text books, pamphlets, newspapers and historical documents on the World Wide Web