Captain John Smith's The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
William Byrd's History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina
Thomas Jefferson's notes on the State of Virginia
William Bartram's Travel through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
Mason Locke Weems's The Life of Washington the Great
A narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes
Frances Anne Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American slave written by himself
John Caldwell Calhoun's A Disquisition on government
Hinton Rowan Helper's The Impending crisis of the south: How to meet it
Frederick Law Olmsted's The cotton kingdom
Edward King's The great south
George W. Cable's Old Creole Days
Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus: His songs and his sayings
Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi
Thomas Nelson Page's In Ole Virginia
Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from slavery
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's The souls of black folk
Thomas Dixon's The Clansman: An historical romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's Life and labor in the Old South
Twelve Southerners' I'll take my stand
Howard W. Odum's Southern Regions of the United States
W. J. Cash's The mind of the South
C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South, 1877-1913.
