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Here are entered works on the part of the United States south of the Mason-Dixon Line, the Ohio River, and the southern border of Missouri and Kansas, extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the western border of Texas, sometimes including or excluding individual states along these borders.

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• Southern States -- Antiquities
• Southern States -- Biography
• Southern States -- Church history
• Southern States -- Civilization
• Southern States -- Description and travel
• Southern States -- Discovery and exploration
• Southern States -- Drama
• Southern States -- Economic conditions
• Southern States -- Ethnic relations
• Southern States -- Fiction
• Southern States -- Genealogy
• Southern States -- Guidebooks
• Southern States -- Historical geography
• Southern States -- History
• Southern States -- Humor
• Southern States -- In literature
• Southern States -- Intellectual life
• Southern States -- Juvenile fiction
• Southern States -- Juvenile literature
• Southern States -- Languages
• Southern States -- Poetry
• Southern States -- Politics and government
• Southern States -- Race relations
• Southern States -- Religion
• Southern States -- Religious life and customs
• Southern States -- Social conditions
• Southern States -- Social life and customs
• Southern States -- Songs and music
• South Atlantic States
• African American Methodists -- Southern States
• African American agricultural laborers -- Southern States
• African American communists -- Southern States
• African American families -- Southern States
• African American women -- Southern States
• African Americans -- Southern States
• Agriculture -- Southern States
• American literature -- Southern States
• American newspapers -- Southern States
• American poetry -- Southern States
• Anti-communist movements -- Southern States
• Appalachians (People) -- Drug use -- Southern States
• Architecture -- Southern States
• Aunts -- Southern States
• Authors, American -- Southern States
• Bartram, William, 1739-1823 -- Travel -- Southern States
• Baskets -- Southern States
• Beverages -- Southern States
• Bog ecology -- Southern States
• Books and reading -- Southern States
• Botany -- Southern States
• British -- Commerce -- Southern States
• British Americans -- Southern States
• Campaign literature -- Southern States
• Catholic Church -- Southern States
• Catholics -- Southern States
• Children -- Southern States
• Christian education -- Southern States
• Christianity and literature -- Southern States
• Civil rights -- Southern States
• Civil rights movements -- Southern States
• Civil rights workers -- Southern States
• Clergy -- Southern States
• Coastal ecology -- Southern States
• Communication and traffic -- Southern States
• Communism -- Southern States
• Cotton growing -- Southern States
• Cotton manufacture -- Southern States
• Criminal justice, Administration of -- Southern States
• Cryptoexplosion structures -- Southern States
• Cults -- Southern States
• Customary law -- Southern States
• Dialect literature, American -- Southern States
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Southern States
• Discrimination in law enforcement -- Southern States
• Discrimination in public accommodations -- Southern States
• Domestic fiction, American -- Southern States
• Earth sciences -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Southern States
• Education -- Southern States
• Education, Higher -- Southern States
• Educators -- Southern States
• Elections -- Southern States
• Endangered species -- Southern States
• Enslaved persons -- Southern States
• Enslaved persons' writings, American -- Southern States
• Enslaved women -- Southern States
• Episcopal Church -- Southern States
• Equality before the law -- Southern States
• Ethnology -- Southern States
• Excavations (Archaeology) -- Southern States
• Families -- Southern States
• Feminism -- Southern States
• Finance -- Southern States
• Folk music -- Southern States
• Folklore -- Southern States
• Food -- Social aspects -- Southern States
• Food habits -- Southern States
• Forage plants -- Southern States
• Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Southern States
• French -- Commerce -- Southern States
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Southern States
• Fruit-culture -- Southern States
• Fugitive slaves -- Southern States
• Gardening -- Southern States
• Geology -- Southern States
• Greek letter societies -- Southern States
• Historical museums -- Southern States
• Homosexuality -- Southern States
• Horticulture -- Southern States
• Human geography -- Southern States
• Indians of North America -- Southern States
• Industries -- Southern States
• Insanity -- Southern States
• Intellectuals -- Southern States
• Irish Americans -- Southern States
• Jews -- Southern States
• Journalists -- Southern States
• Labor -- Southern States
• Labor movement -- Southern States
• Labor unions -- Southern States
• Landscapes -- Southern States
• Law enforcement -- Southern States
• Legends -- Southern States
• Libraries -- Southern States
• Library extension -- Southern States
• Local finance -- Southern States
• Lynching -- Southern States
• Medical anthropology -- Southern States
• Methodist Church -- Southern States
• Methodists -- Southern States
• Mountain people -- Southern States
• Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Southern States
• Natural history -- Southern States
• Plantation life -- Southern States
• Plantation owners -- Southern States
• Plants -- Southern States
• Poets, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States
• Political parties -- Southern States
• Politicians -- Southern States
• Poor white people -- Southern States
• Popular music -- Southern States
• Populism -- Southern States
• Presbyterian Church -- Southern States
• Printing -- Southern States
• Prisoners of war -- Southern States
• Race discrimination -- Southern States
• Racism -- Southern States
• Railroads -- Southern States
• Rare animals -- Southern States
• Rare plants -- Southern States
• Refugees -- Southern States
• Sacred music -- Southern States
• Schools -- Southern States
• Secession -- Southern States
• Secret societies -- Southern States
• Segregation -- Southern States
• Segregation in transportation -- Southern States
• Sermons, American -- Southern States
• Sharecropping -- Southern States
• Slaveholders -- Southern States
• Slavery -- Southern States
• Slavery and the church -- Southern States
• Social reformers -- Southern States
• Social service -- Southern States
• Soils -- Southern States
• Soldiers -- Southern States
• Soldiers' monuments -- Southern States
• Spirituals (Songs) -- Southern States
• Strikes and lockouts -- Southern States
• Suffrage -- Southern States
• Swords -- Southern States
• Symbolism in politics -- Southern States
• Tales -- Southern States
• Textbooks -- Southern States
• Textile workers -- Southern States
• Trees -- Southern States
• Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916 -- Travel -- Southern States
• Tuberculosis -- Southern States
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Secret service -- Southern States
• Vegetable gardening -- Southern States
• Veterans -- Southern States
• War poetry, American -- Southern States
• Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 -- Travel -- Southern States
• Weapons -- Southern States
• White supremacy movements -- Southern States
• Wild flowers -- Southern States
• Women -- Southern States
• Women and literature -- Southern States
• Women authors, American -- Southern States
• Women in public life -- Southern States
• Women teachers -- Southern States
• Women's rights -- Southern States
• Working class -- Southern States
• Ball, Charles, 1781?-
• Bond, Scott, 1852 or 1853-1933
• Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 1823-1886
• Dabney, Thomas Smith Gregory, 1798-1885
• Joseph, John, slave
• Kearney, Belle, 1863-1939
• Legaré, Hugh Swinton, 1797-1843
• Mallory, William, 1826-
• Pickens, William, 1881-1954
• Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

• American South
• American Southeast
• Dixie (U.S. : Region)
• Former Confederate States
• South, The
• Southeast (U.S.)
• Southeast United States
• Southeastern States
• Southern United States
• United States, Southern

• The New South Investigated (Detroit: Ferguson Printing Co., 1888), by D. Augustus Straker (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Northern Men Say of the South (Charlotte, NC: Observer Steam Job Print, 1879), ed. by N. Dumont (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), ed. by David Colin Crass, Steven D. Smith, Martha A. Zierden, and Richard D. Brooks (PDF at Tennessee)

• A Diary from Dixie (New York: P. Smith, 1929), by Mary Boykin Chesnut, ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Diary from Dixie (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1905), by Mary Boykin Chesnut, ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Diary from Dixie (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1906), by Mary Boykin Chesnut, ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 (originally published 1979; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Michael O'Brien (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Address Delivered by Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Athens, Georgia, Historian General, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1911-1916: The Civilization of the Old South: What Made it; What Destroyed it; What Has Replaced It (1916), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Travels in Georgia and Florida, 1773-74: A Report to Dr. John Fothergill (from the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1943), by William Bartram, ed. by Francis Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• After the War: A Southern Tour, by Whitelaw Reid (page images at MOA)
• Down South (London: Chapman and Hall, 1883), by Lady Duffus Hardy
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics, by J. Milton Mackie (page images at MOA)
• Incidents of a Southern Tour, by H. Cowles Atwater (page images at MOA)
• Jottings of a Year's Sojourn in the South: or, First Impressions of the Country and Its People, by Anson De Puy Van Buren (page images at MOA)
• Letters from the Slave States, by James Stirling (page images at MOA)
• A Picture of the Desolated States, and the Work of Restoration, 1865-1868 (Hartford: L. Stebbins, 1868), by J. T. Trowbridge
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Slave States of America (2 volumes; London and Paris, Fisher, Son and Co., ca. 1842), by James Silk Buckingham
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The South: A Tour of Its Battle-Fields and Ruined Cities, a Journey Through the Desolated States, and Talks With the People (Hartford: L. Stebbins, 1866), by J. T. Trowbridge (page images at MOA)
• The South Since the War, As Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Carolinas, by Sidney Andrews (page images at MOA)
• A Winter From Home, by Charles A. Clinton (page images at MOA)
• A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, With Remarks on Their Economy (New York; London: Dix and Edwards; Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1856), by Frederick Law Olmsted (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• South and North: or, Impressions Received During a Trip to Cuba and the South, by John S. C. Abbott (page images at MOA)
• Travels in Lower Canada, With the Author's Recollections of the Soil, and Aspect, the Morals, Habits, and Religious Institutions of That Country (with Cornelius' "Tour in Virginia, Tennessee, etc." London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1820), by Joseph Sansom, contrib. by Elias Cornelius (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Western Lands and Western Waters (London: S. O. Beeton, 1864), by Friedrich Gerstäcker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Letters of Robert Mackay to His Wife, Written From Ports in America and England, 1795-1816 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1949), by Robert Mackay, ed. by Walter Charlton Hartridge (PDF at Georgia)
• The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (2 vols.; New York: Mason Brothers, 1861), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
• The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (2 vols.; New York: Mason Brothers, 1862), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
• A Journey in the Back Country (London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1860), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images in Germany)
• A Journey in the Back Country (New York: Mason Brothers, 1860), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at Google)
• Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom: A Traveler's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (second edition, 2 volumes in 1; London: S. Low, Son and Co., 1862), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains, in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessea, and Back to Charleston, by the Upper Carolinas (London: Printed by D. N. Shury, for B. Crosby and Co., and J. F. Hughes 1805), by François André Michaux (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Diary of William Fairfax Gray, From Virginia to Texas, 1835-1837, by William Fairfax Gray, ed. by Paul D. Lack (HTML at smu.edu)
• Gleanings from Southland: Sketches of Life and Manners of the People of the South Before, During and After the War of Secession, With Extracts from the Author's Journal, and Epitome of the New South (Birmingham, AL: Roberts and Son, 1895), by Kate Cumming
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, by John Muir (illustrated HTML at Sierra Club)
• Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (Philadelphia: Printed by James and Johnson, 1791), by William Bartram
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • page images at loc.gov
• Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (Dublin: For J. Moore et al., 1793), by William Bartram
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (second edition in London, based on the 1791 Philadelphia edition; London: Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1794), by William Bartram
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly: A Domestic Drama in Six Acts (New York: Samuel French, 1858), by George L. Aiken, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia)

• The Plight of the Share-Cropper (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, c1934), by Norman Thomas, contrib. by William Ruthrauff Amberson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States (3 volumes; New Orleans: Office of De Bow's Review; et al., 1852-1853), by J. D. B. De Bow
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • all volumes: page images at MOA
• Southern Wealth and Northern Profits, As Exhibited in Statistical Facts and Official Figures: Showing the Necessity of Union to the Future Prosperity and Welfare of the Republic (New York: G. W. and J. A. Wood, 1860), by Thomas Prentice Kettell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor As Determined by the Plantation Regime, by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (Gutenberg text)
• American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Planation Regime (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1918), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poor Whites of the South (Washington: Buell and Blanchard, printers, 1856), by George M. Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poor Whites of the South (Republican campaign edition, 1860), by George M. Weston (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, With Remarks on Their Economy (New York; London: Dix and Edwards; Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1856), by Frederick Law Olmsted (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The New South Investigated (Detroit: Ferguson Printing Co., 1888), by D. Augustus Straker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (2 vols.; New York: Mason Brothers, 1861), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
• The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (2 vols.; New York: Mason Brothers, 1862), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
• Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom: A Traveler's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (second edition, 2 volumes in 1; London: S. Low, Son and Co., 1862), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at HathiTrust)

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