---
title: 'Ballads Surviving in the United States'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Charles Alphonso Smith'
date: 1916-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Literature'
- 'History (General)'
- 'Education'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 137'
- 'Psalms 150'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/smith-1916-ballads-surviving-in-the-united-states
---

# Ballads Surviving in the United States

Study of English and Scottish ballads surviving in the U.S.: regional distributions, variant forms and communal composition; urges swift collection by teachers and state societies.

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