United States History: The South

In-depth website about the American South at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Primary sources and literature.

This site, from the Library of Congress, covers personal narratives from the Civil War Period through the Twenties.

Maintained by the Virginia Center for Digital History, this multimedia site seeks "to connect race with place" with its collection of oral histories, political broadsides, photographs, maps, and letters.The focus is on segregated Charlottesville, Virginia, from the late 1880s until the mid 1900s. Of particular interest are the two African-American owned newspapers from the period.

PBS companion website to its four-part series on slavery and U.S. history.

Also housed at the University of North Carolina, the Southern Oral History Program is "committed to preserving the voices and perspectives of everyday people." The site holds more than 2900 interviews with people from all walks of life.There are also transcripts of the interviews .

Primary sources, texts, images, and timeline 1830-1930.