Southern Studies

Links to the academic and archival South

(State archives and historical societies at the bottom of the page; see individual state pages for more listings.)

American Folklore Society
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (UVA)
Amistad Research Center (Tulane)
Archive of African American Music and Culture (Indiana University)
Archives of Appalachia (ETSU)
Harry Caudill Appalachian Research Collection (N. Kentucky University)
Center for Documentary Studies (Duke)
Center for the Study of the American South (UNC)
Center for the Study of Southern Culture (Ole Miss)
Cherokee Nation Historical Society
Digitalized Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings - 1920 (UNC)
Documenting the American South (UNC)
Duke University Special Collections
Farm Security Administration Photos (LC)
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860 - 1920 (UNC/LC)
Freedmen and Southern Society Project (UMD)
Historic New Orleans Collection
William Stanley Hoole Special Collections (UA)
H-South
Institute of Oral History (UT-EP)
Journal of Southern History (Rice)
Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress, Special Collections
Museum of the Confederacy
National Civil Rights Museum
National Council on the Traditional Arts
Outline of Southeastern Prehistory (NPS)
Retrieving African American Women's History
Slave Narratives at Duke University
Smithsonian Institution
Southern Cultures Magazine (UNC/Duke)
Southern Historical Association (Rice)
Southern Historical Collection (UNC)
Southern Folklife Collection (UNC)
Southern Oral History Project (UNC)
Tulane University Special Collections
Underground Railroad (NPS)
United States Civil War Center (LSU)
University of Mississippi Archives and Special Collections
University of Mississippi Library
University of the South at Sewanee Special Collections
University of Virginia Special Collections
Vanderbilt University Special Collections
Wake Forest University Rare Books and Manuscripts
West Virginia University Appalachian Collection
T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History (LSU)
WPA Life Histories Project Search Engine (LC)

Alabama Department of Archives and History
Alliance for West Virginia Black History
Center for Louisiana Studies
Department of Arkansas Heritage
Georgia Historical Society
Florida State Archives
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Kentucky Historical Society
Library of Virginia
Louisiana Folklife Center
Louisiana Historical Society
Maryland State Archives
North Carolina Department of Archives and History
North Carolina Folklife Resources
South Carolina Department of Archives and History
South Carolina Historical Society
South Carolina State Library
State Historical Society of Missouri
State Library of Louisiana
State Library of North Carolina
Tennessee Historical Commission
Tennessee State Library and Archives
Texas State Historical Association
Virginia Historical Society
West Virginia History Database (WVU)