Primary Sources: U.S. Civil War: Literature

"The Confederate Broadside Poetry Collection at Wake Forest University consists of over 250 examples of poems written by Southerners and Confederate sympathizers during the Civil War. The collection includes some pamphlets and clippings, as well as broadsides.Scanned images of all items in the collection are available on this website. Click on a letter at left to see an alphabetical listing of titles. Select a poem by clicking on the title and then click on the highlighted Link field in the catalog record to see the scanned image."

"... a website devoted to the study of Emily Dickinson, her writing practices, writings directly influencing her work, and critical and creative writings generated by her work." The site includes a mixture of resources, some of which are freely available and some for which there is a fee for access due to copyright restrictions. The site includes the following areas: Writings by the Dickinson Family - "Please contact the editors concerning access to restricted areas of these sites." Responses to Dickinson's Writing, Teaching with the Archives, and Critical Resources.

"includes a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924. This collection was originally based on Dr. Robert Bain's bibliography of the hundred most important southern literary works and continues to expand under the guidance of scholarly advisors Dr. Joseph M. Flora and Dr. William L. Andrews. This collection begins with some of the earliest texts about America written by British discoverers that set the foundation for American letters and traces the development of southern literature through to the beginning of the twentieth century."
Documenting the American South

v.1-2 1863-1864

"... is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman’s vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers." The site provides access to a variety of materials for studying Whitman and his works.