Documenting the American South

Access: Publicly available resource

Description: DocSouth is a collection of books, manuscripts, and other sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Projects include:

• First-Person Narratives of the American South : offers many Southerners' perspectives on their lives by presenting letters, memoirs, autobiographies and other writings by slaves, laborers, women, aristocrats, soldiers, and officers.
• Library of Southern Literature : includes a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924.
• North American Slave Narratives : documents the individual and collective story of African Americans' struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 : presents materials related to Southern life during the Civil War and the challenge of creating a nation state while waging war. This collection includes government documents, personal diaries, religious pamphlets, and many other materials.
• The Church in the Southern Black Community : traces the way Southern African Americans adopted and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life.
• The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940 : collects books, letters, reports, posters, artifacts, songs, and oral histories about North Carolina, its people, and its history.
• North Carolinians and the Great War : examines how World War I shaped the lives of different North Carolinians on the battlefield and on the homefront. Propaganda posters and related documents show the way the state and federal governments responded to war-time demands.

Subject(s):
Digital Archives & Collections
Gender, Minority Studies & Anthropology
History, Genealogy & Archives
Publicly Available Resources

Related Databases
America : History and Life
American Civil War Research Database
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries

Related Links
American Memory
In the First Person ** http://www.inthefirstperson.com/ **
Making of America : Michigan ** http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ **
SSSL Bibliography ** http://www.missq.msstate.edu/sssl/ **
Valley of the Shadow : Two Communities in the American Civil War ** http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/ **
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