Digital archive of magazines and journals from nineteenth century Britain and its colonies, with particular focus on Victorian age lifestyle publishing and the British Empire.
Collection of printed works providing insight into African-American culture and life from the beginning of Jim Crow to World War I and beyond. Capturing voices of, by, for, and about African Americans.
Archive of documents about African American life from post-Civil War years to the beginning of Jim Crow. Includes works of individuals and organizations, works of fiction, poetry and drama.
The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) has assembled an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early ...
Works by authors of African or African-American descent, 1556-1922. Personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems, musical compositions.
Collection of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by Black women from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and the rest of the African Diaspora.
Online bibliography of book and library history from scholarly publications written from a historical perspective; covers papermaking, bookbinding, book illustration, type design, libraries, and more.
This database is searchable full text resource and contains approximately 500 journals from the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. Topics covered include ...
The Online Edition presents a fully searchable version of the Print Edition, including all the original introductions, collations, and commentary, but it complements, develops, and vastly extends t...
Archive of primary source materials related to criminal history, law, literature, and justice in nineteenth century Europe, North America, India and the Antipodes (Australia and New Zealand).
The Dartmouth Dante Project contains searchable full-text versions of Dante's Commedia and of close to 50 commentaries on it from the 14th century to the present. A few files are in English; most a...
The Decameron Web is an archive of information pertinent to the reading and studying of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. It was assembled by students at Brown University under the direction of M. Ri...
Streaming video collection of films of current, leading British theatre productions, musicals, and operas. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources.
Multimedia collection designed to support literature and drama courses; contains playtexts, audio plays, streaming video, and ebooks from theatre publishers and companies.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) provides full-text images of almost all the books printed in England and her colonies from the beginning of printing to 1700 (about 125,000 titles). You can search...
The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an exceptional partnership to cre...
Ebook collection traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, through full-color, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.
This database includes the complete text of 11 major editions of Shakespeare's works, from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-66. It also includes 24 separate contemporary printings o...
Archive of play manuscripts submitted for license in the United Kingdom (1737-1824); related documents and visual materials; London Stage list of performances (1660-1800); biographical dictionary.
A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700–1780 by writers from the British Isles, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift.
English Poetry, Second Edition contains 183,000 poems, essentially comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles and the British Empire from the 8th century to the early 20th, and representing more than 2,700 poets.
The Essay and General Literature Index cites records contained in collections of essays and anthologies published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Topics in the humanities and social...
Everyday Life is a digital collection comprising thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th ...
High-quality, downloadable digital texts of Shakespeare's plays, based on source texts taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions (using the same page numbers and layouts as in the Folger p...
German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents, and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. The German Studies Collection brings to...
Searchable collection of publications dating from 1543 to 1945 documenting the condition of women, the evolution of feminist consciousness, and women's rights.
Godey's Lady's Book, Parts I - IX (1830-1898) provides electronic access to issues of the lady’s fashion magazine from 1830-1989. Early issues of Goody’s Lady’s Book included fashion description an...
Collection of manuscripts, printed text, illustrations, and maps that document travel to and daily life on the European continent, as seen and experienced by many wealthy Britons of the 18th century.
Handrit.is formerly Saganet aka Sagnanet is an ongoing scholarly project that digitalizes, stores, and makes available, page by page, images of works of Old Icelandic literature in the original lan...
Manuscripts from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) of New York. This site includes an invitation to other libraries to submit manuscripts for digitization for Jewish c...
EBSCO database of journal articles, books, essays, and reviews covering all aspects of the humanities, with a focus on literary, scholarly and creative thought.
Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings is a free-access, Web-based resource developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison which complements the University of Iceland's Internet course Icelandi...
Archive of UK and US periodicals published between 1919-1939, on arts and culture, fashion, family life, travel, current affairs, social and welfare issues, and writing of prominent literary figures.