AMST 488: No Place Like Home

Material Culture of the American South

http://www.lib.unc.edu/coursepages/amst/S12_amst488/

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Jacqueline Solis
Librarian
Davis Library
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More help 

Guide to African American Resources in the Southern Historical Collection

Introduction to Library Research

Citing 

Citing Information Tutorial

The South on Film

The Media Resources Center owns many films depicting the South. Look at the list of Southern films, or search with FilmFinder.

Reference Sources

The new encyclopedia of Southern culture / Charles Reagan Wilson, general editor
Davis Library: F209 .N47 2006

The South / edited by Rebecca Mark and Rob Vaughan
Manuscripts Department Reference: F209 .S68 2004

"Surveying the South," a collection of articles from Southern Cultures about the South and the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of Southerners.

Books 

Search the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries' Catalog

 Example of an academic book (at least the catalog record for one)

How Do I Find Books? | How Do I Read a Call Number?

Academic journal articles 

 Example of an academic journal article

Articles+
Find more articles on more topics. Easier access to many of the journals that UNC Libraries offer.

Academic Search Premier
Provides access to articles on material culture and literature.

America, History and Life
Find articles and book chapters on topics in North American history, including the American South.

JSTOR
Great source for articles on culture and literature published from the early 1900s up through approximately five years ago.

MLA International Bibliography
Source for literary criticism, and articles on linguistics, folklore, and cultural studies.

News articles 

The Accessible Archives
Contain the full text of important American newspapers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Includes nineteench century African American newspapers.

New York Times Historical Newspaper
Offers full-text and full-image newspaper articles covering the entire publishing history of the newspaper, from 1851 to 2001.

Diaries and Letters

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
Over 400 diaries and collections of letters written by men and women on both sides of the Civil War.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Over 1000 diaries written by American and Canadian women, in full text.

Syllabus

AMST 488 Syllabus

Assignment Resources

Personal Probate Inventory
Southern Food Essay Assignment
To Kill A Mockingbird Guide
Southern Object Essay Guide

Southern Resources Online
Southern Films at UNC Libraries

Class Assignments

Personal Probate Inventory
Southern Food Essay
To Kill a Mockingbird Essay
Southern Object Essay

Writing Resources

Dr. Ferris's Book Review Guidelines

Dr. Ferris's Essay Writing Guide

UNC-Chapel Hill's Writing Center

Style Guide

Avoiding passive voice:
Active and Passive Voice
Verb Tenses
Passive Voice

Media 

Documenting the American South
Digitized materials, including photos, in a variety of subjects relating to Southern history and culture.

Southern Folklife Collection
Manuscripts, images, audio, and texts about folklife in the South.

Southern Historical Collection
Journals, photographs, letters, videos, oral histories, and other primary documents relating to Southern life in the past and present.

Southern Oral History Program
Wilson Library has this collection, which can be searched by topic. Over 4000 oral histories are available, 500 of which are online.

UNC's Digital Collections
UNC's libraries have digitized many collections of photographs, exhibits, and artifacts. Most deal with life in the South, throughout various eras.

Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary, an easy-to-read how-to guide for making low-budget documentaries by Nancy Kalow from the Center for Documentary Studies. Lots of practical advice.

Alan Lomax: American Patchwork, a collection of Lomax's music shoots in Mississippi, Appalachia, and New Orleans, 1978-1983

The Carolina Story: A Virtual Museum of University History