Southern History Resources

This selection of specialized resources in Southern History is designed to help you navigate through the wealth of information in Fondren's collections. It is not a comprehensive list. Also available are guides to resources in American History and African-American Studies.

Journal Indexes

America: History and Life

Covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. This extensive database indexes over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, this database indexes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. (1964-)

Military and Government Collection (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text | Source List

Provides full text from over 320 military and general interest publications. Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for over 360 magazines.

Newspapers

Microforms are located in the Government Publications Department (Fondren basement).

Atlanta Constitution

Print Holdings:  current 2 months

Call Number:  AN2 .A76 A84

Microform Holdings:  1868-1975 on microfilm, AN2 .A76 A842

Online Coverage for Rice:  1991-current via Academic Universe (uses title "Atlanta Journal and Constitution")

Augusta Chronicle

Call Number:  AN2.A78 A9

Microform Holdings:  11/29/1794-11/28/1832 on microfilm

Baltimore American

Call Number:  AN2.B25 B3

Microform Holdings:  1799-1820 with some gaps on microfilm

Galveston Daily News

Call Number:  AN2.G3 G25

Microform Holdings:  1865-1921 with some gaps on microfilm

Houston Chronicle

Print Holdings:  current issues retained until microfilm received

Call Number:  AN2 .H8 C5

Microform Holdings:  1901- on microfilm

Online Coverage for Rice:  1985-current via Newsbank; 9/15/1991-current via Academic Universe

Notes: See TDNet listing (password field) for archival access password for 'unrestricted' publisher site.

Houston Post

Call Number:  AN2.H8 P6

Microform Holdings:  1881-1995 with some gaps on microfilm

Notes: Index for 1976-1995 in Ref, AI21.H6 H6

New Orleans Times-Picayune

Print Holdings:  current 2 months of Sunday issues only

Call Number:  AN2 .N35 T42

Microform Holdings:  1843-1975 on microfilm

Online Coverage for Rice:  1991-current via Academic Universe

Richmond-Times Dispatch

Call Number:  AN2 .R5 R45

Microform Holdings:  1850-1910 with some gaps on microfilm

South Carolina Newspapers, 1732-1782

Call Number:  AN2.C3 S6

Microform Holdings:  microfilm set

Notes: see Library Catalog for individual titles and dates

Online Text Collections

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries

Contains approximately 500 authors and 32,000 pages of letters, diaries and memoirs. The letters and diaries are by the famous and the unknown, giving not only both the Northern and Southern perspectives, but those of foreign observers also. The materials originate from all regions of the country and are from people who played a variety of roles. When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials.

American Radicalism Collection

The American Radicalism Collection at the Michigan State University Libraries includes materials covering a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, and economic issues in America. The emphasis is on materials produced by radical groups - both left and right. Some examples are materials devoted to Timothy Leary, the Black Panther Party, Neo-Nazi Organizations, the Christian Right, and Steve Gaskin, founder of the commune the Farm. While the American Radicalism Collection is strongest in publications from the American Left in the twentieth century, as well as in resources for the study of American Labor History, there is considerable material from the right, most notably the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's and 1930's.

Digital Dissertations and Theses from ProQuest/UMI

A comprehensive source for doctoral dissertations from the United States and Canada. Includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. A limited number of master's theses is also included. Titles represent authors from North America and Europe, with over a million titles in full text.

Documenting the American South

This freely-accessible collection from UNC at Chapel Hill currently includes six digitization projects: slave narratives, first-person narratives, Southern literature, Confederate imprints, materials related to the church in the black community, and North Caroliniana.

Early American Imprints: Series I, Evans (via publisher): 1639-1801 | Early American Imprints: Series I, Evans (via University of Michigan)

Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

Early American Imprints: Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker: 1801-1819

Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this rich primary source collection provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.

HarpWeek (Civil War and Reconstruction Units): 1857-1877

Electronic access to Harper's Weekly 1857-1877.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950

Release 1 (2001) includes the immediate experiences of 107 women, as revealed in more than 9,000 pages of diaries and letters. When complete, the collection will include more than 150,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years.

Sabin Americana

"Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere."

Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War

An award-winning University of Virginia research project which interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War. It combines a narrative and an electronic archive of the sources on which the narrative is based.

Microform Sets

Butler Plantation Papers

Call Number:  F 213.B88  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title

Guide:  "Listing and Guide to the Microfilm Collection"

Civil War Unit Histories, part I, Confederate and Border States

Call Number:  E 470.6.C48  microfiche

Library Catalog Access:  series & individual titles

Guide:  Guide includes fiche, author, & major engagements indexes

Confederate Imprints (Crandall & Harwell)

Call Number:  E 487.C73 1974  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title with general reel guide in contents

Guide:  no; reel guides in LIBRIS; reel 144 contains Crandall and Harwell bibliographies; Online information at http://www.gale.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=745&titleCode=PSM80&type=4&id=N220

Louisiana newspapers 19th century. Various titles

Call Number:  in process of being cataloged  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  not applicable

Guide:  none

all are from Orleans parish except one from Vidalia. Filed in separate cabinet. Check with microforms staff.

Mississippi newspapers. 19th century. Various cities

Call Number:  in process of being cataloged  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  not applicable

Guide:  None

Currently filed in separate cabinet. Check with microforms staff.

Peonage Files of the U.S. Department of Justice, 1901-1945

Call Number:  HD4875 .U5 P46  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title

Guide:  Printed reel guidel Online information at http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/2upa/Aaas/PeonageDOJ.asp

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War A-D, F-J (incomplete)

Call Number:  F 213.R42  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title with contents

Guide:  Reel guides for A-D, F-J (lacking some parts); Online information at http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/2upa/Ash/AnteBellumSouthernPlantations.asp

Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration

Call Number:  F 215.R42  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title with contents

Guide:  Guide for series A & B pts. 1-3 only

Records of the Confederate States of America

Call Number:  E 484.A4  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title

Guide:  Contents at beginning of reel 1. No guide.

Southern Women and Their Families: Series A - H

Call Number:  HQ 1418.S68 (.S682-S685)  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title only

Guide:  Reel & subject indexes for series A-G ( series D has only pts. 2-4; G, pt. 1). Online information at http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/2upa/Aws/SouthernWomen.asp

State Secession Debates, 1859-1862

Call Number:  JK 9671.S73  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title only

Guide:  Guide lists contents by state, alphabetically. Film is also filed by state within call number.

State Slavery Statutes

Call Number:  KF 4545.S5 A127  microfiche

Library Catalog Access:  series title only

Guide:  Comprehensive contents arranged by state and subject, name, and geographic indexes.(565 pp.)

Travels in the New South

Call Number:  F 215.T73  microfiche

Library Catalog Access:  series title

Guide:  Guide is alphabetical list of fiche by author or main entry

Reference Works

Dictionary of Louisiana Biography. Glenn R. Conrad. Louisiana Historical Association: 1988, 1999.

Call Number:  CT237 .D53   REFERENCE

Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. William S. Powell. University of North Carolina Press: 1979-1996.

Call Number:  CT252 .D5   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. University of North Carolina Press: 1989.

Call Number:  F209 .E53   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Southern History. David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman. Louisiana State University Press: 1979.

Call Number:  F207.7 .E52   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of the American Civil War : a political, social, and military history. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. ABC-CLIO: 2000.

Call Number:  E468 .H47   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. Richard N. Current. Simon & Schuster: 1993.

Call Number:  E487 .E55   REFERENCE

Roster of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865. Janet B. Hewett. Broadfoot Publishing: 1995-96.

Call Number:  E548 .H48   REFERENCE

Texas Biographical Dictionary. Somerset: 1996.

Call Number:  CT262 .T47   REFERENCE

Who's Who in the South and Southwest. Marquis: 1947-.

Holdings:  1952-present

Call Number:  F208 .W64   REFERENCE