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A digital library project hosted by the Department of Classics at Tufts University. Contains thousands of searchable full-text documents including many primary texts.
This Library of Congress site offers a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture and is primarily comprised of two collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division: The African American Pamphlet Collection and the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection with a date range of 1822 through 1909.
This New York Public Library research guide includes a digital collection of books and pamphlets published by 19th-century black women writers, together with author biographies, citations, and more.
More than 100 works tracing how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This site presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The online collection, containing approximately 7,400 items (38,000 images), spans the years 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material dating from 1862 to 1865.
This Library of Congress site provides links to selected digital and print resources from the library's vast collection, along with links to curated external websites. Includes a bibliography.
An alphabetical listing of Southern literature archived in the “Documenting the American South” project. From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Originally published by the US Information Agency (USINFO) and now housed in the HathiTrust Digital Library, this resource is a virtual textbook, with background information on each era of American literature.
"Still is published three times a year, in October, February and June. Our mission is to provide a free website that offers the finest in contemporary literary writing of Central Appalachia, or the Mountain South."
"Read Shakespeare’s complete works and learn more about their themes, language, and early printing history. View images and materials from the Folger’s collection that will enrich your experience of his texts."
A digital library project hosted by the Department of Classics at Tufts University. Contains thousands of searchable full-text documents including many primary texts.
"A fine collection of carefully edited Renaissance works, many in hypertext. Includes works by Addison, Alabaster, Bellamy, Camden, Campion, Fletcher, Milton, Owen, and others."
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A project of McDaniel Professors LeRoy Panek (1943-2021) and Mary M. Bendel-Simso, the Westminster Detective Library aims to catalog and make available online all the short fiction dealing with detectives and detection published in the United States before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1891).
The Rainbow History Project's goal is "to collect, preserve, and promote an active knowledge of the history, arts, and culture of metropolitan Washington DC’s diverse LGBTQ communities."
Scholarly archive of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between the onset of the French Revolution and the passage of the Reform Act.
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.
An anthology of 4,000+ selected English language poems representing 700+ poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twenty-first century. The site also includes a timeline, glossary, criticism, and an extensive bibliography.
"The Emory Women Writers Resource Project is a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. Texts can be sorted by ethnicity, date, genre or nationality."
This New York Public Library research guide includes a digital collection of books and pamphlets published by 19th-century black women writers, together with author biographies, citations, and more.
