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Humanities Web Sites
General
Art History
Geography
History
- Geography of
Slavery in Virginia - digital collection of court records, slaveholders
records and newspaper advertisements for runaway slaves
- An
African-American Community in the Jim Crow South. University of
Virginia. Digital collection of census records, newspaper accounts, oral
histories, maps, city records, and images; searchable census database
- Trans-Atlantic
Slave Trade Database. Search the Voyages database for names of
ships, names of captains, places of slave purchase, places of slave
landings, number of slaves, number of slave deaths, days of voyage, date of
voyage beginning, date of voyage end, unusual occurrences during voyage and
other information.
Literature (Fiction and Poetry)
-
African
American Women Writers of the 19th Century. Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture.
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html
- digital collection of 52 works by African American women writers of the
19th century. Includes biographical entries. Keyword-searchable database
- A Celebration of Women
Writers. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, editor. Database searchable by author's
name, country, ethnicity, period. Categories for browsing include name index,
century, country and ethnicity.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
- The Literature Network.
Database of authors; biographical information and complete texts for selected
works. http://www.online-literature.com/
- Perseus Digital
Library. Tufts University et al. Database of Greek and Roman texts
in Latin and Greek as well as English translations.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
- Project Bartleby.
Columbia University. Searchable online databases, including dictionaries, Roget's
Thesaurus, several quotations dictionaries, the King James Bible, the
Oxford Shakespeare, Bullfinch's Mythology and other reference works;
selected fiction works by authors such as Herman Melville, H.G. Wells and many
more. Large database of digitized poems; categories include General, British,
American, and specific authors. Large database of digitized works of nonfiction,
including essays by an extensive range of philosophers and other writers. Works
also organized by topics such as Ghost Stories or War Poetry.
http://www.bartleby.com/
- Project Gutenberg.
Large database of electronic books available for free viewing and printing. Only
works in the public domain are included. http://promo.net/pg/
Literary Criticism
Music
Philosophy
Poetry
- American Academy of Poets.
"The Academy of American Poets, a non-profit organization founded in 1934
to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the
appreciation of contemporary poetry." Database of poems and poets;
discussion forums, events and news. Literary Links provides an extensive
list of links to sites dealing with individual poets; these contain poems,
criticism, interviews, biographies and more. http://www.poets.org.
- EdSelect
- Poets and Poetry. List of links to sites providing
resources for teachers of poetry. http://www.edselect.com/poetsand.htm
Writing
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