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SOUTHERN HISTORY - DIGITAL ARCHIVAL MATERIALS
DIGITAL LIBRARY OF APPALACHIA
Resources related to the culture, environment, history and geography of the southern and central Appalachian region. Full text and media resources from the collections of the 33 member institutions of the ACA.(Central Library, Appalachia College Association)
DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used.
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Primary resources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture. Includes collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs." (UNC Chapel Hill University Library)
DOCUMENTS FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN HISTORY
A collection of links to primary documents in American history from the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the current presidency. (George Laughead Jr., manager, WWW Virtual Library, United States History)
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
Gateway to digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and books.
MAKING OF AMERICA
Primary source materials on American social history, from the Antebellum period through Reconstruction. (Univ. of Michigan)
MAKING OF AMERICA: CIVIL WAR DOCUMENTS
Thematically-related digital library documenting American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction, containing109 monographs (267 volumes) and 22 journals (955 volumes) with imprints primarily between 1840 – 1900.” Includes official records of the Union and Confederate Navies and The War of the Rebellion. (Cornell University)
NINETEENTH CENTURY DOCUMENTS PROJECT
Primary texts from 19th century American history from the Avalon Project.
SOUTHERN HOME FRONT
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.
U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES (NARA): AMERICAN SOUTH
A center for the study of the history of the South. Holdings include extensive microfilm for genealogy research and general historical interest. Also has about 105,000 cubic feet of archival holdings dating from 1716 to the 1980s, primarily textual records but also maps photographs, and architectural drawings.
