Special Projects

sourcesFollow along as we dive deep into our collection and add new materials. The Southern Sources Blog is your guide to new research in the stacks and new collecting in the field.

African American Families Documentation InitiativeThe African American Family Documentation Initiative is a suite of services designed to engage African American families in the preservation of their own stories. Our outreach work can be applied to preservation strategies, family memory projects, and working with institutional repositories.

digitalExplore our digitized materials through the Digital Southern Historical Collection, which offers access to many of our holdings, whether you’re with us on campus or conducting research from afar.

civil war fixDrawing on the vast holdings of the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, this blog presents samples of the Civil War’s documentary remains. The concept of Civil War, Day by Day is a simple one: every day for four years, we presented a document that was 150 years old to the day.