Program on Public Life

UNC Archives and Resources

• American South Collections
  Consolidated list of links to online and print collections about the American south offered at the University of North Carolina Libraries. Click here.
• Southern Historical Collection
  A vast collection of distinct archival collections on the history and culture of the American South comprised of unique primary documents. Click here.
• Southern Folklife Collection
  One of the nation's foremost archival resources for the study of American folk music and popular culture, the SFC holdings extensively document all forms of southern musical and oral traditions. Click here.
• North Carolina Collection
  The NCC preserves an incomparable assemblage of literary, visual, and artifactual materials illustrating four centuries of the colony and state of North Carolina. Click here.
• North Carolina Collection's Photographic Archives
  The Collection's more than 400,000 images are a visual record of North Carolina's people, places, and events and include examples of all major formats from the daguerreotype of the 1840s to the contemporary. Click here.
• Research Laboratories of Archaeology
  The RLA curates more than five million artifacts in one of the nation's finest collections of archaeological materials from the South. Click here.
• Southern Literary Journal
  A peer-reviewed journal edited by Fred Hobson and Minrose Gwin, the SLJ publishes scholarly articles on the literature of the American South and reviews of critical works on southern literature and culture. Click here.
• Visiting Scholars Southern Historical Library Grant
  Funding for graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars who plan to use the resources available in the Southern Historical Collection. Click here.