MDA205: The American
South
Internet Sites
The following sites may be of interest to you. While I have generally
selected some of the better sites available, it is important to realize
that Web "publishing" is extremely easy. It lacks the strenuous
peer-review function of scholarly journals.
- Southern Culture
- The
Crawdad Hole: Southern Writing and Arts
- Southern Authors
-
- William Faulkner on the Web
- . . . is an excellent,
although still developing, site. In addition to extensive biographical
information on Faulkner, it contains a list of works with a
summary/analysis, character bios, family geneologies, a map of Oxford and
more, all featuring hypertext links.
- Faulkner
Home Page
. . . contains biographical information, as
well as Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech and photos of the author
and his family.
- The Joel
Chandler Harris Page
. . . is authored by the The Wren's
Nest, Harris' house-turned-museum. The site includes a brief list of
links related to Harris and his times.
- Richard Wright:
Black Boy
. . . was created by PBS to complement their
program of the same name, a biographical documentary about
Wright.
- The Kate
Chopin Project
. . . is a collection of Chopin's
short stories with hypertext annotations.
- Chopin:
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
. . . contains
a
full-text copy of The Awakening, among other things.
- Carson
McCullers
. . .
- Southern Music
- Southern Folklife
Collection Homepage
- . . . chronicles the music holdings
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Wilson Library. It
also has a number of links to other sites about southern music and
culture.
- History of the United States and the South
- WPA Life
Histories Home Page
- . . . is part of the American Memories digital
collection from the Library of Congress. These documents, recorded as
part of the WPA Federal Writers' Folklore Project from 1936 to 1940, are
arranged by region and state and can be searched by the full
text.
- Civil War
Photos
. . . is also part of the American Memories
collection. The photos are arranged along a timeline of the
war.
- Color Photograhps
from the FSA and OWI Home Page
. . . consists of photos
taken between 1939 and 1945 by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and
the Office of War Information (OSI). The photos depict rural life and war
mobilization. This site is also part of the American Memories
collection.
- The
American Civil War Homepage
. . . the most comprehensive
site about the Civil War, it contains numerous links to timelines,
graphics, documentary records, bibliographies, state and battle
information and more.
The American
Revolution and the Struggle for Independence
. . . outlines
American history from the Colonial Period until the First World War, and
features hypertext and links to other, relevant sites. Although it is a
work-in-progress, and it is difficult to confirm the veracity of the
information provided, it is an interesting site to peruse.
- Miscellaneous
- Confederate
Flag Information
- Sites to Start Your Searching
- Yahoo
- Social Science:History:American History
- Lycos
- Encyclopaedia Brittanica
Online
This page is maintained by Melissa A. Anderson,
Reference/Instruction Librarian, Leavey Library.
Last updated 4 January 1996.