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• American Folklore

  http://www.americanfolklore.net/
  Folktales, myths, legends, tall tales and ghost stories from each of the 50 states, as well as sections on Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Jesse James.

• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
  Collection of typescript interviews from the Federal Writers' Folklore Project offering the recollections of Americans from many walks of life.

• AppLit: Resources for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature for Children and Young Adults

  http://www2.ferrum.edu/AppLit/
  Annotated materials, folklore texts and original literature from and about the southern Appalachian region.

• Bawdy Ballads and Far-Fetched Folklore - An Oral History of Rural North Carolina

  http://www.ibiblio.org/bawdy/
  Ballads and folktales, including an interactive section.

• Gullah Tales

  http://www.knowitall.org/gullahtales/
  Tales and traditions of the African-American communities on the South Carolina and Georgia Sea islands.

• Haitian Proverbs, Riddles, Jokes and Folktales

  http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/008.html
  Collection compiled by Bob Corbett (in Creole and English).

• Jamaica Anansi Stories

  http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/
  By Martha Warren Beckwith (1924), with music and riddles; e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.

• Magic Tales of Mexico

  http://www.g-world.org/magictales/magictales.shtml
  Tales from the Texas Mexican border, collected by Gabriel A. Cordova Jr.

• Mules and Men

  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Grand-Jean/Hurston/Chapters/index.html
  African American folklore collected by famous folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, published in 1935.

• Paul Bunyan - The Giant Lumberjack

  http://www.paulbunyantrail.com/talltale.html
  Illustrated version of the American tall tale.

• Puerto Rican Folktales

  http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/2/93.02.12.x.html
  Curriculum by Doris M. Vazquez, offering an introduction to Puerto Rican storytelling, with sample tales, and annotated bibliography.

• Uncle Remus

  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/remus/remus.html
  History and ethnology research project of Joe Harris' tales of Uncle Remus; includes selected texts.

• Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project

  http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/fishlm/folksongs/
  An ongoing undertaking to collect, preserve and make better known the folklore, especially the folksongs, of Americans in war.

• White Cong and Black Clap: The Ambient Truth of Vietnam War Legendry

  http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Scholarly/Baky_White_Cong_01.html
  Article by John Baky discussing legendary motifs occurring in print and opinion about the Vietnam war.

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