UNC Libraries / Documenting the American South
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Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research.
DocSouth has contributed numerous resources to LEARN NC’s digital textbook project for North Carolina history. Additionally, LEARN NC publishes lesson plans that integrate digitized resources from DocSouth’s collections.
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- Gay life
- In Postwar North Carolina, page 6.8
- Interview with a gay man about his experiences living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the 1950s. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: interview/primary source
- George Dyer describes his parents' financial situation when they got married and started farming
- George Dyer describes his parents' financial situation when they got married and started farming.
- Format: audio/interview
- George Dyer talks about his parents' decision to leave their farm
- George Dyer talks about his parents' decision to leave their farm.
- Format: audio/interview
- George Dyer talks about the farm where he grew up.
- George Dyer talks about the farm where he grew up.
- Format: audio/interview
- George Simkins interview (excerpt)
- Karen Kruse Thomas By the time the [Simkins v. Cone] case arose in 1962, why do you think you and the other plaintiffs chose that route to try to open access for blacks to better health care. Were there other options that you...
- Format: audio/interview
- A German immigrant writes home
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 2.4
- Letter (c. 1710) from a immigrant to North Carolina to his family and friends in Germany, telling about his life and experiences in Carolina and giving advice to others who might follow him. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter/primary source
- Ghosts and sea monsters: Analyzing mythology
- In North Carolina maps, page 3.1
- This lesson is meant to accompany a ninth or tenth grade unit covering myths and legends. In this lesson, students analyze sea creatures found in 16th and 17th century maps in terms of culture and context. They then search for stories relating to North Carolina legends, ending by writing a story of their own.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Job.
- Girls helping the cause
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 2.8
- Letter from a young woman to her grandmother in which she describes some of the many activities of southern women on the home front in North Carolina. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter/primary source
- Gladys Hollar describes her mothers worries about the family's survival
- Gladys Hollar describes her mothers worries about the family's survival.
- Format: audio/interview
- Gladys Hollar discusses her grandparents and farm life
- Gladys Hollar discusses her grandparents and farm life.
- Format: audio/interview
- Gladys Hollar discusses the work that her mother and the children did on the family farm.
- Gladys Hollar discusses the work that her mother and the children did on the family farm.
- Format: audio/interview
- Gladys Hollar talks about the impact of her father's death on the family and their farm
- Gladys Hollar talks about the impact of her father's death on the family and their farm.
- Format: audio/interview
- Going to the movies
- In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 6.12
- Newspaper article about the first "talkie" shown in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1929. Includes historical background and commentary.
- Format: newspaper/primary source
- Governor Aycock on "the negro problem"
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 8.9
- Speech by North Carolina Governor Charles Brantley Aycock, 1903, in which Aycock proclaims both the absolute supremacy of the white race and the importance of education for all citizens. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: speech/primary source
- Governor Holden speaks out against the Ku Klux Klan
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 10.4
- Speech by North Carolina Governor William Woods Holden to the General Assembly, December 1869, asking for the power to declare martial law where needed to stop the violence of the Ku Klux Klan. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter/primary source
- The growth of tourism: Warm Springs
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.9
- Advertisement for Warm Springs (now Hot Springs) in Madison County, North Carolina, from the late nineteenth century. Includes historical commentary about the region, tourism, and nineteenth-century medicine.
- Format: pamphlet/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Harriet Love on integration
- In this 1998 oral history excerpt, Love speaks about the motivations people had for supporting integration and starts off with an insightful response. She then goes on to describe many more subtle effects of integration such as the challenged to teachers and...
- Format: audio
- Ila Hartsell Dodson oral history excerpt
- Ila Hartsell Dodson was born in 1907 in South Carolina and began working in the Brandon Cotton Mill at age 14. Her mother, father, and all of her nine siblings worked for various cotton mills in North and South Carolina. She met her husband working in the...
- Format: interview/primary source
- Ila Hartsell Dodson oral history excerpt (child labor)
- Ila Hartsell Dodson was born in 1907 in South Carolina and began working in the Brandon Cotton Mill at age 14. Her mother, father, and all of her nine siblings worked for various cotton mills in North and South Carolina. She met her husband working in the...
- Format: audio/interview
- Ila Hartsell Dodson oral history excerpt (labor unions)
- Ila Hartsell Dodson was born in 1907 in South Carolina and began working in the Brandon Cotton Mill at age 14. Her mother, father, and all of her nine siblings worked for various cotton mills in North and South Carolina. She met her husband working in the...
- Format: audio/interview
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