Documenting the American South is a large-scale, digital publishing initiative that features primary resources in history for the study of the history, literature, and culture of the American South.

Documenting the American South is an indispensable resource for study of the Civil War and the antebellum South, African-American history, and Southern literature.

It includes public-domain full-text books, pamphlets, personal correspondence, slave narratives, diaries, and oral histories. Documenting the American South remains an essential electronic-research tool for anyone seeking original and scholarly documentation about this region.