NewSouth

Historical Resources

• African American/Civil Rights - From the Alabama Department of Archives and History

• Alabama Department of Archives & History

• Alabama Folklife Association - Alabama Folklife Books & Recordings for Sale

• Alabama Folklife Program News

• Alabama Heritage

• American Folklore Society

• American Memory - Historical Collections for the National Digital Library

• Beyond Face Value - Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency

• Georgia Department of Archives & History

• History Channel.com - "The Best Search in History"

• Indians: Alabama Tribes Resources - From the Alabama Department of Archives and History

• Internet Public Library - POTUS - Presidents of the United States

• Mississippi Department of Archives & History

• National Archives & Records Administration

• National Historic Trail: The Cherokee Trail of Tears, 1838-1839

• Native American: A Study of the Creek Indians

• Native Americans in North Georgia

• NativeWeb - Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World.

• North Carolina Division of Archives & History

• The South Carolina Archives & History Center

• Trail of Tears: North Georgia History - Includes "The Legend of the Cherokee Rose"

• WPA Life Histories - Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

Citizen Soldiers:
The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge
to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945
By Stephen E. Ambrose

Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression:
The Report on Economic Conditions in the South with Related Documents
Edited with an Introduction by David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis

Double V:
The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen
By Lawrence P. Scott and William M Womack, Sr.

The Good War:
An Oral History of World War Two
By Studs Terkel

The Greatest Generation
By Tom Brokaw

The Greatest Generation Speaks:
Letters and Reflections
By Tom Brokaw

Hard Times:
An Oral History of the Great Depression
By Studs Terkel

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men:
Three Tenant Families - by James Agee

Like a Family:
The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Only the Names Remain:
The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears
By Alex W. Bealer (Reading level-ages 9-12)

Only Yesterday:
An Informal History of the 1920's
By Fredrick Lewis Allen

Rosa Parks (Penguin Lives)
By Douglas Brinkley

Rosa Parks: My Story
By Rosa Parks (Reading level-ages 9-12)

Since Yesterday:
The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929-September 3, 1939
By Frederick Lewis Allen

The Trail of Tears
By Gloria Jahoda

The Tuskegee Airmen:
The Men Who Changed a Nation
By Charles E. Francis

Up Before Daylight:
Life Histories from the Alabama Writers' Project, 1938-1939
Edited by - James Seay Brown, Jr.

The Wpa Guide to 1930s Alabama
With an introduction by - Harvey H. Jackson, III