Southern Appalachian Studies: Open Access Primary Resources

Links to collections and the project newsletter, The Great Smoky Mountains Colloquy.

Images and text collections created by the Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project at the University of Tennessee Libraries. Includes images created by photographers Jim Thompson, Albert "Dutch" Roth, and Herbert M. Webster, Elgin P. Kintner, Paul Adams, and William Cox Cochran and a large collection of images and text about the Pi Beta Phi School in Gatlinburg.

Created by the University of Tennessee and the University of Georgia. The collection contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, and the LaFayette-Walker County Library. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.

Combined site for the digital collections of many of the region's smaller colleges.

Images from Knoxville and the Greater East Tennessee region.

Links to collections on Horace Kephart, Craft Revival, Great Smoky Mountains, and the Cherokee.

Digitized photographs, textual records, and sound recordings.

This digital archive includes the following collections: W. Amos Abrams Folksong Collection, I. G. Greer Folksong Collection, ASU Historical Photographs, Moonshine Collection, Appalachian Ethnicity Resources, Blue Ridge Views Video Collection.

A large grouping of collections including images of Asheville, Jewish people and African-Americans in Western North Carolina, geographical images from the U. S. Forest Service, and Biltmore.

Historical photographs of West Virginia.

Combined collections from several Kentucky universities including University of Kentucky and Berea College.

Includes images created by prominent photographer, George Masa, whose subjects were primarily Asheville and the Great Smoky Mountains.

The Center for Virtual Appalachia is a collection of information, photos, articles, and data about the Appalachian region and its people. Highlights include a collection of quilt squares and collection of documents on the "War on Poverty."

Information, including statistics, on the entire Appalachian Region. ARC is a state-federal partnership that works for sustainable community and economic development in Appalachia.

Fully searchable and updated version of the encyclopedia. Contains images as well as text.