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Documenting the American South

http://docsouth.unc.edu/

Provider: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Resource summary

• Appropriate grades: 3–12
• Subjects: social studies (African Americans, North Carolina, United States history)
• Provider: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• More websites with resources on African Americans, North Carolina and United States history.

Documenting the American South is a collection of “primary resources for the study of Southern history, literature, and culture. 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 from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.”

Its collections include:

• The First Century of the First State University
• Oral Histories of the American South
• True and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students at the University of North Carolina
• First-Person Narratives
• Library of Southern Literature
• North American Slave Narratives
• The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865
• The Church in the Southern Black Community
• The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940
• North Carolinians and the Great War

The University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors Documenting the American South, and the texts and materials come primarily from its Southern holdings.