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Digital Collections - Humanities

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History

China | England | Spain | United States | World War II

History - China

DACHS - Digital Archive for Chinese Studies
(www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/)
The University of Heidelberg has archived and made accessible Internet resources relevant for Chinese Studies, with special emphasis given on social and political discourse as reflected by articulations on the Chinese Internet.

History - England

The Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ)
(www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/)
A joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford that aims to digitize substantial runs (minimum, 20 years) of 18th and 19th century British journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data.

Vindolanda Tablets Online
(vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk:8080/)
This online edition of the Vindolanda writing tablets, excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England, includes the following elements:
Tablets: a searchable online edition of the tablets (volumes 1 and 2)
Exhibition: an introduction to the tablets and their context
Reference: a guide to aspects of the tablets' content
The Vindolanda writing tablets, written in ink on post-card sized sheets of wood, have been excavated at the fort of Vindolanda, immediately south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England. Dating to the late first and early second centuries AD, the formative period of Roman Britain's northern frontier, they were written by and for soldiers, merchants, women and slaves. Through their contents, life in one community on the edge of the Roman world can be reconstructed in detail.

History - Spain

LIBRO - Library of Iberian Resources Online
(libro.uca.edu/)
The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO) is a joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas. Its task is to make available to users the best scholarship about the peoples and nations of the Iberian Peninsula. Consequently, the book list is principally drawn from recent, but out-of-print university press monographs. In addition, the collection includes a number of basic texts and sources in translation. These are presented in full-text format and reproduce all the matter included in the original print version. The collection focuses upon peninsular history from the fifth to the seventeenth centuries.

History - United States

Ad*Access
(scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/)
Images and information for 7000 advertisements from US and Canadian newspapers and magazines, 1911-1955.  (J. Walter Thompson Co. Competitive Advertisements Collection)

Aerial Photography Online Images
(sunsite.berkeley.edu/EART/AerialPhotos)
Aerial Photography Online:  A collection of aerial photographs of the San Francisco Bay Area and Yosemite National Park. The American Heritage Project.

American Memory: Historical Collections of the National Digital Library
(memory.loc.gov/ammem)
"American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The Website offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections."

Bridgeport [Connecticut] Working: Voices from the 20th Century
(www.bridgeporthistory.org/)

Connecticut History Online
(www.cthistoryonline.org/sitemap.html)
Connecticut History Online includes (19th and 20th century) business in Connecticut and American life. Some of the sections are: Women at Work, The Textile Industry in CT, maritime trades, rural life and farming in CT, and transportation. There are 5000 graphic images in entire collection.

Cornell University Collection of Political Americana
(cidc.library.cornell.edu/political/)
The Susan H. Douglas Collection of Political Americana was acquired from an individual collector in 1957 for Cornell University Library (CUL). The range and variety of content includes: buttons, badges, posters and prints, songbooks and sheet music, cartoons, parade equipment, and souvenirs such as plates, cups, and games. There are approximately 5,500 objects of political memorabilia dating from 1789 to 1960.

Digital Collections in New England
(www.nelinet.net/digital/necol/dlc_ne.htm)
The New England Collections Online (NECOL) is a collaborative effort of libraries, archives, museums, historical societies and other organizations to build a web-based virtual union catalog of historical, social, cultural, economic, and scientific resources specifically related to New England. Sponsored by NELINET.

Documenting the American South
(docsouth.unc.edu/)
A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that contains the full-text of over 900 books and manuscripts. DAS projects include First-Person Narratives of the American South, Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Southern Home front, 1861-1865, The Church in the Southern Black Community.

The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA)
(scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/)
This site presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture.

Making of America
(library5.library.cornell.edu/moa/)
Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

University of Missouri Digital Library
(digital.library.umsystem.edu)
An ongoing project by the University of Missouri this collection includes Savitars (University of Missouri-Columbia Yearbooks); books on Missouri's history, geology, and culture; the Missouri Historical Newspapers Project; and University of Missouri Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis digital collections.

Virtually Missouri Digitized Collections
(www.virtuallymissouri.org/vmdigcoll.html)
Provides links to digital collections in Missouri institutions. Collections include postcards, botanical specimens and rare books, folk music, historical maps, ordinances, and materials from the Dred Scott case. Materials in this collection include the Missouri Historical Newspaper Project, Kansas City Public Library's Special Collections exhibits, the Missouri Botanical Garden exhibits, and others.

History - World War II

Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library
(worldwar2.smu.edu)
This website contains many WWII documents including ads, articles and the full text of pocket guides, given to US soldiers, detailing the different countries where they were stationed. Photographs of North Africa, Italy, Southern France, and Germany in the 1940's from the Melvin B. Shaffer collection are also included.

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Interdisciplinary

Bartleby (www.bartleby.com/)
An archive of reference resources (dictionaries, encyclopedias, fact books, and more) and collections of literature, verse, fiction and non-fiction. Features a full-text searchable database containing over 200,000 Web pages, including over 22,000 quotations and 4,765 poems.

Project Gutenberg
(www.promo.net/pg/)
Project Gutenberg is a non-profit organization whose goal is to make electronic books freely available to the world at large. Titles included are public domain works including those by Shakespeare, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Jane Austen.

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Language

Language - Chinese

DACHS - Digital Archive for Chinese Studies
(www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/)
The University of Heidelberg has archived and made accessible Internet resources relevant for Chinese Studies, with special emphasis given on social and political discourse as reflected by articulations on the Chinese Internet.

Language - French

ABU: La Bibliotéque Universelle
(abu.cnam.fr/)
Free access to the complete text of works of the French-speaking public domain. On the Internet since 1993. Website is in French

Electronic Text Center - French Language Resources
(etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/french/)
These sites from the University of Virginia provide free access to any texts that are legally made publicly available. All of these texts are not necessarily public domain. Some texts are restricted to University of Virginia users or Virtual Library of Virginia. The English collection includes 9,575 titles including 203,725 manuscript, book, and newspaper illustrations (including covers, spines, book illustrations, and page images), many of which are publicly accessible. The French language collection includes the complete works of Voltaire and works by many other French writers.

Language - German

Göttingen Digitalisierungs-Zentrum
(gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/index.html)
German e-texts from Göttingen State and University Library Website in German

Projekt Gutenberg
(www.gutenberg2000.de/)
German language counterpart to Project Gutenberg.

Language - Italian

Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana
(www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html)
A collection of poems, dramatic works, narrative works and political papers and documents from Italian authors and sources. Website in Italian

Language - Spanish

Biblioteca Virtual - Miguel de Cervantes
(www.cervantesvirtual.com/index.jsp)
An extensive collection of full-text materials from classic and contemporary Spanish authors, poets, and dramatists. Website is in Spanish.

Textos Lemir
(parnaseo.uv.es/Lemir/Textos/index.htm)
Medieval Spanish Texts. Website in Spanish.

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Literature

American Lit. | Authors | Book Arts | British Lit. | Classic Texts | Fiction | Interdisciplinary | Italian | Old English | Poetry | World Literature

Literature - American Literature

American Verse Project
(www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/)
An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry (pre-1920) created by the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included.

Cambridge History of English and American Literature
(www.bartleby.com/cambridge/)
Compiled over fourteen years, from 1907 to 1921, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. (Made available by Project Bartleby - www.bartleby.com/)

Literature - Authors

William Blake Archive
(www.blakearchive.org)
This Website is a gathering point for the varied works of William Blake. Many of Blake's prints, paintings and poems made available with permission, and without a fee. Each work includes an extensive bibliographical description. An online hypermedia environment that allows its users to access high-quality electronic reproductions of a growing portion of Blake's work. These reproductions have been prepared according to the highest technical and scholarly standards, with the cooperation of a number of the major museum, library, and private collections.

Literature - Book Arts

English Emblem Book Project
(emblem.libraries.psu.edu/home.htm)
From Penn State's Emblem book collection, the current nine books form the core of this project represent this particular kind of book. Emblem books provide a picture and moralizing poem on facing pages.

Literature - British Literature

Cambridge History of English and American Literature
(www.bartleby.com/cambridge/)
Compiled over fourteen years, from 1907 to 1921, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. (Made available by Project Bartleby - www.bartleby.com/)

Victorian Women Writer's Project
(www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/)
Indiana University publishes this site that provides access to anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama by British women writers of the 19th Century.

William Blake Archive
(www.blakearchive.org)
This Website is a gathering point for the varied works of William Blake. Many of Blake's prints, paintings and poems made available with permission, and without a fee. Each work includes an extensive bibliographical description. An online hypermedia environment that allows its users to access high-quality electronic reproductions of a growing portion of Blake's work. These reproductions have been prepared according to the highest technical and scholarly standards, with the cooperation of a number of the major museum, library, and private collections.

Literature - Classic Texts

Classic Bookshelf
(www.classicbookshelf.com)
Classic books by Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, and many others are presented in an easy to read online format.You may customize the text size, font, colors (background and text color), and spacing (vertical and horizontal).

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
(shakespeare.mit.edu/)
This is the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, offering Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.

Gutenberg Digital
(www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm)
Included in this collection are a digitized Gutenberg Bible, one of four complete, illuminated copies on vellum. This Website also includes the Göttingen Model Book, a biography of Johann Gutenburg and the Helmasperger Notarial Instrument, a document which records the legal dispute between Gutenberg and his backer Johannes Fust. Translation is available.

The Internet Classics Archive
(classics.mit.edu/)
A searchable database from MIT of over 400 works of classical literature by more than 50 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

Labyrinth Library - Middle English Bookcase
(www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/me/me.html)
Provides access to other online collections and anthologies of Middle English literature, as well as links to the full text of works by such authors as Chaucer, Dunbar, Henryson, Langland and more.

Literature Post
(www.literaturepost.com)
A collection of many classic books, plays, stories and poems for online reading.

Sparks Classic Books
(eserver.org/sparks/classics.html)
A collection of classic books online. The titles are few, but the text is full.

Literature - Fiction

Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
(www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2)
A digitized collection of nineteenth century American fiction covering all works of fiction listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville are among the authors included in this collection.

Literature - Interdisciplinary

An Online Library of Literature
(www.literature.org)
This collection includes out of copyright the works that are in the public domain. Access is provided through an index of authors.

Voice of the Shuttle
(vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp)
Voice of the Shuttle provides links to multi-disciplinary collections of free texts on the Internet.

Literature - Italian

Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana
(www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html)
A collection of poems, dramatic works, narrative works and political papers and documents from Italian authors and sources. Website in Italian

Literature - Old English

Labyrinth Library - Old English Literature
(www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/oe.html)
Provides access to poetry, prose, and reference works in Old English.

Literature - Poetry

American Verse Project
(www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/)
An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry (pre-1920) created by the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included.

Literature - World Literature

ATHENA Authors and Texts
(un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/authors.html)
Includes nearly 10,000 multilingual links to books on philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc. The collection is searchable by author, title, language, and keywords.

Bibliotheca Augustana
(www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augusta.html)
Full text of selected works in Spanish, Italian, German, Greek, and Latin. A "virtual museum" including photographs of art and architecture from various time periods is available. Website in Spanish.

Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
(www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html)
This collection includes Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English. Translations are mentioned only when they are included in collections of original language texts, or when they are themselves of interest.

Perseus Digital Library
(www.perseus.tufts.edu)
Ancient Greek and Roman texts, English Renaissance, American Historical texts are included. This Website includes both primary and secondary sources in multiple languages. While this collection also includes works by and about Robert Boyle, this Website is geared mainly towards the humanities.

Literature - World Literature - German

Göttingen Digitalisierungs-Zentrum
(gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/index.html)
German e-texts from Göttingen State and University Library Website in German

Projekt Gutenberg
(www.gutenberg2000.de/)
German language counterpart to Project Gutenberg.

Literature - World Literature - French

Electronic Text Center - French Language Resources
(etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/french/)
These sites from the University of Virginia provide free access to any texts that are legally made publicly available. All of these texts are not necessarily public domain. Some texts are restricted to University of Virginia users or Virtual Library of Virginia. The English collection includes 9,575 titles including 203,725 manuscript, book, and newspaper illustrations (including covers, spines, book illustrations, and page images), many of which are publicly accessible. The French language collection includes the complete works of Voltaire and works by many other French writers.

Literature - World Literature - Spanish

Biblioteca Virtual - Miguel de Cervantes
(www.cervantesvirtual.com/index.jsp)
An extensive collection of full-text materials from classic and contemporary Spanish authors, poets, and dramatists. Website is in Spanish.

LIBRO - Library of Iberian Resources Online
(libro.uca.edu/)
The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO) is a joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas. Its task is to make available to users the best scholarship about the peoples and nations of the Iberian Peninsula. Consequently, the book list is principally drawn from recent, but out-of-print university press monographs. In addition, the collection includes a number of basic texts and sources in translation. These are presented in full-text format and reproduce all the matter included in the original print version. The collection focuses upon peninsular history from the fifth to the seventeenth centuries.

Textos Lemir
(parnaseo.uv.es/Lemir/Textos/index.htm)
Medieval Spanish Texts. Website in Spanish.

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Philosophy

ATHENA Authors and Texts
(un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/authors.html)
Includes nearly 10,000 multilingual links to books on philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc. The collection is searchable by author, title, language, and keywords.

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Religion

Gutenberg Digital
(www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm)
Included in this collection are a digitized Gutenberg Bible, one of four complete, illuminated copies on vellum. This Website also includes the Göttingen Model Book, a biography of Johann Gutenburg and the Helmasperger Notarial Instrument, a document which records the legal dispute between Gutenberg and his backer Johannes Fust. Translation is available.

The Internet Sacred Text Archive
(www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm)
This site is a freely available archive of significant primary texts relating to religion, mythology, (and to a lesser extent) legends and folklore. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language.

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See also: Research by Subject - Humanities