Harvest of Oddities
The past two weeks have set me a bit off-kilter. I had the privilege of hosting some good folks in town for the IM-1776 & Nashville Pamphleteer event. Anons, face lords, famous journos, normies, and even a few Mid-Westerners were over at the house. No exposé here. The bourbon selection? Gradations of deep amber. Layers of complexity. A hint of rebellion. The food? BBQ, banana pudding, and Chess Pie Squares (will be used as currency in the ruins).
I charted a course Northward with the family. Someone’s loose tongue had set things in motion. In Boston, they hit me with some Yankee Havana syndrome coof. Still recovering. A few photos of my trip scattered below.
I’m working on a few projects, but today, we do a little random resource sharing (btw, many great digital humanities projects I’ve bookmarked have dissapeared completely. Sad). Eventually, I’ll have a dedicated resource maxxing page.
Americana
Perseus Collection: 19th-Century American
University of Texas Arlington U.S.-Mexico War project.
American Antiquarian Society Digital Resources
Library of Congress Andrew Jackson Resource Guide
Window into the Early Republic
U.S. History Primary Source Timeline
Records of the American Colonies
Museum of the Moving Image: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2020
American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
Civil War Diaries and Letters Collections
George Mason Speech Accent Archive
Digital Public Library of America Exhibitions
Railroads and the Making of Modern America
“The Valley of the Shadow enables visitors to explore a critical part of the American past for themselves. The Valley project presents the complex historical record of the people of a northern community and a southern community, one in Pennsylvania and another in Virginia, both in the Great Valley that stretches across the Mason Dixon line, throughout the era of the American Civil War.”
“Riot Acts is a story of communication. Specifically, this project explores the history of American extralegal violence from Independence through the end of the Civil War.”
Bibliophile Grab Bag
Speaking of Boston Public Library, here’s their Archive page and they have a sweet section about the library’s architecture.
Bibliography of Books Pamphlets and Articles Related to the Roanoke Island Colonies
Rare Civil War Novels Collection
Library Company Conservation Dept., 19th Century Cloth Bindings Database
Signs of a Nation in Decline: y book so ugly? I love Publishers Bindings. Here are a few collections: Columbia, University of Wisconsin, Met Museum, Boston Athenaeum, University of Rochester, Ohio University, University of Chicago
Southern Medley
The DocSouth collection at the Internet Archive includes works from the digital library "Documenting the American South", which offers a wealth of resources about Southern history, literature, and culture.
Appalachian English (aka Appalachian Speech) Project
Wake Forest Confederate Broadside Collection
Duke University Libraries, Confederate Imprints Collection
Emory University Southern History Collection
Southern Places is a project of MTSU's Center for Historic Preservation and the James E. Walker Library.
Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum Oral History Project
Slippery-Hill: A Collection Of Over Ten Thousand Old-Time Fiddle & Clawhammer Banjo Source Recordings
Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790–2020
Historic Southern Naturalists Collection
Bookmarked. Had seen some of these years ago but two HDD crashes and reformats later, lost the links.