As general interest in the study of Southern Culture continues to increase, so has the number of Web sites and other electronic resources available on the Internet. Multimedia archives, virtual museums, online journals, electronic discussion groups, and personal homepages devoted to the most esoteric of interests are now as close as a personal computer. Below is a selected sampling of some of the better information presently on the Internet related to Southern Culture. While it would be nearly impossible to list all the resources on this broad and interdisciplinary area of study, the following list should provide some good starting points for researchers or those just interested in the field.

Listservs

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STHCULT. Southern Cultures Discussion List, its full name, covers Southern history, literature, folklore, and related topics. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Subscription address: listserv@gibbs.oit.unc.edu

H-SOUTH. A forum endorsed by the Southern Historical Association for historians of the U.S. South to communicate current research and teaching interests. Subscription address: listserv@uicvm.uic.edu

BUBBA-L. A list devoted to the language, culture, lifestyles, history, and humor of the South. Subscription address: listserv@knuth.mtsu.edu

AFROAM-L. Electronic discussion related to critical issues in African American life and culture, including topics such as folklife, slave culture, and civil rights. Subscription address: listserv@harvarda.harvard.edu

H-CIVWAR. Academic discussion list on U.S. Civil War History. Subscription address: listserv@h-net.msu.edu

World Wide Web Sites

Online Publications

The Southern Register. The newsletter of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Includes local and regional news, book reviews, and announcements of conferences. Back issues available online for the last two years. Address: http://www.cssc.olemiss.edu/register.html

Mississippi Folklife. This magazine of the Mississippi Folklore Society includes articles, photographic essays, interviews, and book reviews about the diversity of folklife and culture in Mississippi and surrounding regions. Address: http://www.cssc.olemiss.edu/publications/missfolk/backissues/

The Mississippi Review. Fiction, poetry, and essays are featured in this monthly literary magazine published by the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. Complete back issues available online. Address: http://sushi.st.usm.edu/mrw/

The Southern Quarterly. Includes announcements of upcoming issues, calls for proposals, and other information pertaining to this journal of the arts in the South. Address: http://www-dept.usm.edu/~soq/

Research Centers

Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. The hub of education and research on the American South, "promoting scholarship on every aspect of Southern culture." The center's home page is a virtual mall of programs, publications, media productions, conferences, and events. Address: http://www.cssc.olemiss.edu/scpage.html

The Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Provides links to research, polls, and publications related to Southern regional studies. Address: http://sunsite.unc.edu/doug_m/pages/south/center/center.html

The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Exhibits, programs, and publications encouraging the documentation of society and community service, often with a Southern focus. Address: http://www.duke.edu/doubletake/cds/

Historical Collections

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library at the Library of Congress. Searchable full-text and full-image archives relating to American culture and history. Among the many collections are Civil War Photographs, 19th-century African American pamphlets, and photographs from the Farm Security Administration. Address: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

WPA Life Histories. Part of the American Memory collection above. This full-text archive of life histories recorded by the Federal Writers' Project for the WPA from 1936 to 1940 may be searched by keyword or browsed by region and state. Address: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-Century America. Presents primary sources documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners, both black and white. Includes diaries, autobiographies, travel accounts, titles on slavery, and regional literature drawn from the holdings of the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Address: http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/

The Special Collections Library at Duke University. Exhibits and online collections featuring Civil War women and the life experiences of slaves. Includes many scanned in images and texts. Address: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/

Tulane University Special Collections. Southeastern architecture, New Orleans jazz, and the Louisiana Collection are some of the online collections available here, complete with many helpful Web links. Address: http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/SpecCollHomePage.html

The Historical Text Archive at Mississippi State University. Provides links to online resources in numerous fields including Native American Studies, African American Studies, and Religion in the South. Address: http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/index.html

Literature

Faulkner Home Page. Bibliographies, photos, and sound bites featuring the South's best known writer, complete with links to other literary sites. Address: http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/s/sbcain/faulkner.html

William Faulkner on the Web. An online guide to the writer and his world. This impressive site includes commentaries, biographical information, information about Oxford, Mississippi, and the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, and numerous links to Faulkner worldwide. Address: http://cypress.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html

The Walker Percy Project. A fully searchable archive of primary materials, scholarly resources, and multimedia presented by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Address: http://sunsite.unc.edu/wpercy/

Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home. A virtual tour of O'Connor's childhood home in Savannah with Web links for additional research on the Georgia writer. Address: http://ruby.ils.unc.edu/flannery/

Y'ALL: Bozarts: The Quill. Devoted to reading, writing, and writers in the South. Access the Southern Writers series that ran in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and explore links to well-known Southern writers from A-Z. Address: http://www.yall.com/bozarts/quill/quill.htm

Folk Culture, Art, & Music

American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Charged by Congress to "preserve and present American folklife," the center was originally founded as a repository for American folk music. Today it provides collections, programs, and services that support folklife research in all fifty states. Resources here include online publications and guides and keyword access to the center's collections. Address: http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/

Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. One of world's largest collections devoted to the music of the Southeastern U.S. Browsable multimedia collections include Early Country Music, Old-Time String Bands (Hillbilly music), Gospel and Spiritual Song, and Southeastern Blues Traditions. Address: http://ils.unc.edu/barba/sfc.html

Appalachian Cultural Museum at Appalachian State University. Descriptions of mountain weaving, log cabins, African American culture, and other aspects of Appalachian life with spotlights on the museum's educational resources. Links to Web resources on the region are also provided. Address: http://www.acs.appstate.edu/dept/museum/index.html

Berea College Museum Collections. Photographs and other objects documenting the culture, history, and art in the southern Appalachian region (also known as the Southern Highlands). Address: http://www.berea.edu/GalleryV/BCMColl.HTML

The Cajun & Creole Pages. Devoted to the people and folklife of south Louisiana. Information here includes census data on Cajuns, profiles on Cajun and Zydeco music, suggested readings, language studies, and links to anything and everything Cajun or Creole. Address: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~skb8721/index.html

Southern Quilting. Features African American and European American quilting traditions and profiles seven Southern quilters, past and present, in this fully illustrated study of the folk art. Address: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/quilt/opening.html

African American Resources

African American History at the Historical Text Archive at Mississippi State University. Numerous links to resources on the African American experience including Gullah and Georgia Sea Island life, pioneers in Kentucky law, early settlers in Savannah, and civil rights leaders. Full-text documents in African American history provided under "Texts." Address: http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/USA/Afro-Amer/afro.html

Blue Highway. Tributes to the great blues musicians, photographs, sound clips, essays, and internet links devoted to the blues and African American culture, from the Delta and beyond. Address: http://www.vivanet.com/~blues/

Persistence of the Spirit: African American Experience in Arkansas. An online study through images and essays of the people and events that made up the African American experience in the state and region. Address: http://www.aristotle.net/persistence/

Atlanta History Center. Online resources on Atlanta history with links to Martin Luther King landmarks and the city's civil rights past. Address: http://www.atlhist.org/

National Civil Rights Museum. Take a virtual tour of the museum located in Memphis, review conferences and exhibits, and link to related sites. Address: http://www.mecca.org/~crights/ncrm.html

Y'ALL: Bozarts: Black Culture in the South. Articles and links related to African American studies in the South, including history, social issues and politics, women's issues, literature, music, film, and E-zines and newspapers. Address: http://www.yall.com/bozarts/black.htm

Civil War

U.S. Civil War Center at Louisiana State University. Includes a comprehensive Links Index to Civil War Information on the Internet, including guides to historic places, text archives, photographs, maps, and biographies. Address: http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/

The American Civil War Homepage at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Brings together Web links to the most useful information related to the Civil War, including documentary records, rosters and regimental histories, and bibliographies. Address: http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~hoemann/warweb.html

Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress. This selected collection contains over 1,118 photographs depicting scenes of preparations for battle, battle after-effects, portraits of Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men. Searchable by keyword. Address: http://rs6.loc.gov/cwphome.html

Historical Societies and State Agencies

Alabama Department of Archives and History. One of the best state sites for historical and genealogical information. Sponsored by the Alabama Department of Archives and History, it provides numerous links to the state and its counties. Address: http://www.asc.edu/archives/agis.html

Georgia Historical Preservation Online Project. Access to historical preservation initiatives in the state. The Preservation Links Page allows you to explore Georgia's cities, history, state parks, and Native American roots. Address: http://cyclops.sed.uga.edu/~preserve/

Welcome to North Georgia. Sections devoted to North Georgia counties, history, and notables provide detailed information about the region, including early explorers, Native Americans, and the Civil War. Address: http://www.ngeorgia.com/

Kentucky Historical Society. Exhibits, research tools for historical and genealogical research, and guides to the society's collections and educational programs at this state agency site. Address: http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/khs/index.html

North Carolina Archaeology. Online reports, articles, and charts covering everything from shipwrecks to cemeteries. Sponsored by North Carolina's Office of State Archeology, Archeological Council, and Archeological Society. Address: http://www.arch.dcr.state.nc.us/

South Carolina Historical Society. Browse illustrated exhibits on South Carolina women and other topics, search the society's research catalog of manuscripts, and explore South Carolina historical and genealogical resources on the Internet. Address: http://www.historic.com/schs/

Virginia Association of Museums. Gateway to Virginia's cultural and historic sites, including maps and a topical index to areas of interest. Address: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~VAM/vamhome.html

Mondo Dixie - Pop Culture from the New South

The American South Home Page. A Southern culture resource center complete with background music to set the mood. Address: http://sunsite.unc.edu/doug_m/pages/south/south.html

Y'ALL. Online guide to arts, music, entertainment, and culture in the South from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Lots of Web links and feature articles that change regularly. Address: http://www.yall.com

The Original (unofficial) Elvis Home Page. Take a virtual Graceland tour, reference Elvis lyrics, explore Elvis links, download Elvis software, and keep up with the latest Elvis sightings. Address: http://sunsite.unc.edu/elvis/elvishom.html

The Amazing Story of Kudzu. Everything you would ever want to know about the rampant vine with links to related sites. Brought to you by the University of Alabama Center for Public Television. Address: http://www.sa.ua.edu/brent/kudzu.htm

The Shrine to Southern Culture. Described as one of the most "in/famous" collections in the University of North Carolina's Southern Historical Collection, the shrine contains artifacts of commodity culture, excavated from throughout the American South. Address: http://blake.oit.unc.edu/~fish/shrine/index1.html

And my personal favorite . . .

The Official Moon Pie Homepage. Includes, among other diversions, a complete history of the Moon Pie and a step-by-step pictorial essay on how these marshmallow sandwiches are made. Address: http://moonpie.com