Quality of Resources

1. Journals: using e.g., Infotrac, FirstSearch, JSTOR, or America History & Life Index
• up to date articles by key scholars in the field
• nationally acclaimed journals vs. state or local publications; history journals vs. other disciplines; interdisciplinary journals
2. Books
• checking quality by using FirstSearch abstracts of book reviews to see what other scholars thought of it
• putting older books within their historiographical era, e.g., books published between 1940s-60s as part of the school of consensus history and critiqued or answered by books written during and after the civil rights era
3. Government Publications, Newspapers, Manuscripts (letters, diaries, etc.)
• using other scholars' interpretations/citations, or going directly to the source, or both?

Analysis of Resources Chosen

1. Summary
2. Application to Project Topic

Including the Assigned Readings on Southern Conservatism

• Ayers, Edward L. "What We Talk about When We Talk about the South," pp. 62-82 in All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
• Boles, John B. "Forever Southern," pp. 583-593 in The South Through Time: A History of an American Region, Vol. II. Second edition. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1999.
• Genovese, Eugene D. The Southern Tradition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
• Kirk, Russell. The Conservative Mind. Seventh edition. Washington D.C.: Regnery Pub., Inc., 1985.
• Lerner, Gerda. Why History Matters. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Reed, John Shelton. "Where is the South?" Southern Cultures 5 (Summer 1999): p. 116.
• Wallerstein, Immanuel. "What Can One Mean by Southern Culture?" pp. 1-13 in The Evolution of Southern Culture. Edited by Numan V. Bartley. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.

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