Provided by Wake Forest University Library, this collection features over 250 poems written by southerners and Confederate sympathizers during the American Civil War. The online examples include scanned pamphlets and clippings as well as broadsides. The collection is recognized as strongly representative of popular Southern war poetry and represents a wide range of subjects, tones, and abilities....

The founding of a great American university can be told in great detail by using primary documents, such as journals, letters, government documents and images. This particular site tells the story of the University of North Carolina during the period 1776 to 1875, and it is part of their "Documenting the American South" series of online exhibits and collections. The site covers topics like student...

Printed from August 1862 until the Union Army destroyed its printing presses and burned its headquarters to the ground in April 1865, the Chattanooga Daily Rebel covered the American Civil War from a Confederate perspective during three of the bloodiest years in American history. Readers may scout the dozens of issues available on the Library of Congress website by selecting All Front Pages and...

Posted as part of the Documenting the American South project (see the April 18, 1997 Scout Report), this Website offers primary documents relating to efforts by the Confederacy to shape its own educational system. The site includes .html versions of period textbooks such as The First Dixie Reader; Designed to Follow the Dixie Primer and First Book in Composition, Applying the Principles of Grammar...