Eighty Years of Looking Back and Moving Forward: The Southern Historical Collection, 1930-2010 highlights 25 items that represent the range of the Southern Historical Collection‘s strengths and activities.
Eighty Years of Looking Back and Moving Forward presents items including:
- A scrapbook of postcards compiled by the first director of the SHC, Joseph G. de Roulhac Hamilton, as he traveled across the American South collecting manuscripts from the 1920s through the 1940s
- A Civil War letter and enlistment documents from the B.F. Little Papers
- Images of the 1927 Mississippi River flood that devastated the Lower Mississippi Valley and forced thousands of African American refugees to live in tents issued by the federal government
- Photographs of Depression-era sharecroppers in Georgia and Mississippi by rural sociologist Arthur Franklin Raper
- The “Clinton tapes,” compiled by journalist and historian Taylor Branch from his White House interviews with Bill Clinton between 1993 and 2001
For more details, visit the UNC Library News and Events blog or the Digital Southern Historical Collection.
