The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World program at the College of Charleston program, also known as CLAW, promotes scholarship and teaching on the Lowcountry, the Atlantic World, and the connections between them; as well as public understanding of the region and its context.
Documenting the American South, a digital library of Southern history, literature, and cultures. Rich in content and type, the site includes text, photos, and sound. A project of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
H-South is the
discussion and information list within H-Net on US South culture and history. Its book reviews, articles, threaded discussions, etc. are meant for scholars, teachers, students, and the interested public.
H-Southern Religion, also within H-Net, is conducted in conjunction with the Journal of Southern Religion.
Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed Internet journal
and scholarly forum created at Emory University providing open access to essays, events, performances and other material on places and spaces, real and imagined, of the US South.
AmericanSouth.org, a comprehensive scholarly discovery service for research materials on the cultures and histories of the US South from Emory University (Atlanta GA). Its online tool navigates the catalogues of many collections across the South.
The Appalachian Collection page from West Virginia University Libraries provides a comprehensive listing of materials related to study of that important region overlapping with the South Atlantic, including Web links and standard bibliography.
Center for the Study of the American South at UNC Chapel Hill, "Exploring five centuries of history, a million
square miles of terrain,
and a limitless future . . ." The Center contributes to the study and development of a changing US South through the Southern Oral History Program, the journal Southern Cultures, the Centering the South speaker series, and a host of other scholarly and public activities.
Appalachian Regional Studies Center at Radford University is home to the Appalachian Folklife Archives and its hundreds of field collection projects with recordings, videotapes, photographs, and other documentation. The Center also hosts the Appalachian Teachers' Network and other programs serving the region.
The Slave Route: From Slavery to Freedom is a project of UNESCO, containing historical, bibliographical, and legal materials on the slave trade on both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans; life under slavery; and struggles for abolition. Also available in Spanish and in French.
Tangled Roots, from Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Abolition, Resistance and Slavery, explores the contrasting and intertwined histories of African-Americans and Irish-Americans with documents, essays, and more.
Early Americas Digital Archive, a project of the University of Maryland's Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), is a collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas between 1492 and c.1820.
Digital Library of Appalachia contains extensive collections in the categories of Religion, Art & Culture, Education, Music, Politics & Government, Domestic Life, Minorities, and Work. It is a project of Central Library of Appalachian College Association.
Linguistic Atlas Project of the Middle and South Atlantic States and African-American and Gullah Speakers Project are searchable by word, place, class, and other dimensions, and contains an instant map generator. They are part of the Linguistic Atlas of the US directed by William A. Kretzschmar of University of Georgia.
In Motion: The African American Migration Experience is a Web exhibit with texts, images, and maps on 13 strands of migration. A project of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (an affiliate of the New York Public Library) with support from Institute for Museum & Library Services and Congressional Black Caucus.
Encyclopedia of Appalachia, a project of East Tennessee State University's Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.
The Cherokee Page provides links to historic maps
and to a range of other historical, genealogical, and
cultura; material on one of the best-known Native
American peoples of the South Atlantic region.
ImageBase, a vast, searchable online library of historic photographs and other images, is built of several collections - Norfolk & Western Historical Photographs Collection of some 11,000 images among them. A service of Digital Library & Archives at Virginia Tech.
Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, seeks to "tell the story of the ocean and its relationship to humankind." Among its many exhibits is Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas.
Appalshop, a multidisciplinary arts and education center, brings "the creative acts of listening and telling" to Appalachian communities and cultures.
Coastal Heritage Society, devoted to preserving the history and culture of the coastal region of Georgia, as well as South Carolina and Florida.
United States National Slavery Museum will be built in Fredericksburg VA; its Web site already
contains images, timelines, and other material on
the history of slavery and people's experience in it.
Transatlantic Slave Trade & Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record, a searchable archive of some 1,000 maps, engravings, and other images, covers Capture; Agriculture; Family Life; Free People of Color; and other themes. Created by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite, Jr.
Migration Information Source provides data, essays, and news on migration around the world, focusing on emigration and immigration.
Walter Jackson Davis Collection documents African American education in the Southeastern US through some 6,000 historic photographs from the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.
International Archive of Women in Architecture visually documents the history of women in architecture, planning, and related fields. Women of the South Atlantic are well represented in this site, part of Virginia Tech's ImageBase.
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The Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña [Institute of Puerto Rican Culture] Web site offers a doorway to the National Library and General Archive of Puerto Rico, and to museums, archaeology, ethnohistory, monuments and historic sites, museums, and other humanities resources.
New Georgia Encyclopedia, an authoritative source of information about Georgia people, places, events, institutions, and more. A Georgia Humanities Council project in collaboration with the state government and university system.
North Carolina ECHO is a searchable "doorway to the special collections of North Carolina's libraries, archives, museums, historic sites, and other cultural institutions."
Virgin Islands Digital Collection, from UVI Libraries, offers unparalleled digitized texts and images on US Virgin Islands
biography, culture, history, and education.
Race, Time & Place documents African-American history, life, and culture in Tidewater Virginia. Created by Professors William Alexander and Cassandra Newby-Alexander of the History Department of Norfolk State University.
Virtual Jamestown, "a digital research, teaching, and learning project exploring the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and the Virginia experiment." Created by Prof. Crandall Shifflett of Virginia Tech's History Department.
The South Caroliniana Collection of the University of South Carolina's University Libraries includes manuscripts, archives, a modern political section, and books and other published materials.
Virginia Center for Digital History, a project of the University of Virginia, "changing the way history is taught, learned, and accessed." VCDH is a gateway to Virtual Jamestown; The Valley of the Shadow; and other collections/resources.
The Knowledge Point, a project of the Shenandoah University (Winchester VA) Historical Tourism Center, is dedicated to increasing academic and public understanding of the history and culture of the lower Shenandoah Valley. Among its many activities is the Virginia Forum, a new, annual conference showcasing cutting-edge research, scholarly thinking, and historical resources.
Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections
is a varied Web exhibit of texts, photographs, sound, and more from the Library of Congress's American Memory site.
Race, Time & Place documents African-American history, life, and culture in Tidewater Virginia. Created by Professors William Alexander and Cassandra Newby-Alexander of the History Department of Norfolk State University.
El Museo del Barrio, a unique institution documenting Puerto Rican culture in migration (particularly in New York City) and in Puerto Rico, has in recent years also broadened to include Latin American and US Latino cultural materials.
Folkvine, based at the University of Central
Florida, is an innovative Web site that creates
exhibits
in close collaboration with Florida artists and the communities they are a part of.
Duke's Center for Documentary Studies explores contemporary memory, life, and culture through photography, film, audio, and other documentary work.
The Valley of the Shadow documents daily life and culture in one Southern (Augusta Co VA) and one Northern (Franklin Co PA) community in the years leading up to the Civil War. Tax records, battle maps, Freedman's Bureau records, diaries, photos, and more. Created by Prof. Ed Ayers of the History Department at the University of Virginia.
The Virtual Historic Savannah Project, created by Prof. Robin Williams, Chair of Architectural History at Savannah College of Art & Design, documents urban evolution by combining architectural and social history research with 3D computer/database technology. Covers 2,100+ existing buildings (eventually to include 5000+ lost buildings) and the people, businesses, and institutions they house.
The Geography of Slavery in Virginia includes runaway slave advertisements, planter diaries, plantation records, and other forms of documentation. On Virginia Center for Digital History site.
Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, audio, video, and other materials.
Florida Heritage Collection of over 1,500 items; catalogue accesible via AmericanSouth.org.
North Carolina CSBC collection of nearly 2,000 items; catalogue accessible via AmericanSouth.org.
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