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The South: Culture and History

This library guide is designed for researchers studying any topics related to the South's culture and history.

Archaeology Databases

Find profiles of current and past tribes, artifact information, cultural practices.

AnthroSource

eHRAF World Cultures  

eHRAF Collection of Archaeology  

Moundville

A large Native American city, Moundville, once lay a few miles from Tuscaloosa.  Experience Native American culture firsthand at the Moundville site today!  Visit the Moundville Museum in person, less than an hour from Tuscaloosa, or check out their fantastic web site.

Journal Articles

  • Academic Search Premier -Very useful for starting an article search.  Contains articles from thousands of magazines, journals, and newspapers. 
  • America: History and Life-the premier database for secondary sources in American history. Finds journals for Native American history.
  • American National Biography Online-this database offers biographical essays on famous Native American figures.  It also gives you a short list of primary sources on that person.
  • Google Scholar--University of Alabama's portal for Google Scholar.  Google Scholar is a special part of Google that only finds scholarly articles.  As a UA student, you can access the texts of many of these articles by clicking the links that say "Full-Text @ UAlabama".
  • JSTOR-contains thousands of articles from key journals in history, political science, sociology, women's studies.