The Southern Historical Collection was formally established in 1930. Professor of history J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton was the founder and first director of the collection.

Size

• More than 5100 discreet manuscript collections.
• More than 30,000 linear feet of shelf space.

Geography

• Broadly encompasses the American South.
• Strongest coverage in the Southeast from Virginia through the Carolinas and across the Gulf Coast to Louisiana.

Time Period

• Eighteenth century to the present.
• Strongest coverage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Subject Strenghts

• African Americana
• Antebellum Plantation Era
• Business and Industry
• Civil War
• Journalism
• Oral History
• Politics
• Southern Literature

Online Finding Aids: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv.html