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• ABELL Plus     [Full Record]
  Information about books, book reviews, articles, essays and dissertations on all aspects and periods of English literature. Includes full text of some articles. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• African-American Poetry     [Full Record]
  Full text searchable database of poetry by African-Americans of the 18th and 19th centuries Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century     [Full Record]
  Full text of 19th-century fiction, essays, poetry, biography and autobiography by African-American women writers.
  
  
• America: History and Life     [Full Record]
  Information on articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations published since 1964 on U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• American Authors / Donna Campbell, ed.     [Full Record]
  Links to primary texts, biographical information, and critical essays on authors from the earliest times through the early 20th century.
  
  
• American Authors on the Web / Mitsuharu Matsuoka     [Full Record]
  Web site devoted to American literature. Includes links to author Web sites, primary texts, projects, teaching resources, electronic journals and more from the colonial period to the present.
  
  
• American Drama     [Full Record]
  Full text searchable database of American drama from the colonial period to the present. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• American Folk Art Museum     [Full Record]
  Information about works in the permanent collection including 18th and 19th century paintings, drawings, textiles, and sculpture.
  
  
• American Literature on the Web / Akihito Ishikawa     [Full Record]
  Web site devoted to American literature from the colonial period to the present. Links to authors’ works, Web sites, biographical information, timelines, and more.
  
  
• American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900     [Full Record]
  Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published between 1741 and 1900. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• American Poetry     [Full Record]
  Full text searchable database of American poetry from the colonial period to the early 20th century. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• American Verse Project     [Full Record]
  Electronic archive of American poetry. Primarily 19th century poetry, but includes some 18th century and early 20th century texts as well.
  
  
• American Women's History: A Research Guide     [Full Record]
  Extensive collection of links to online resources (as well as information about printed and manuscript resources), including digital collections of primary sources. Emphasis on more recent periods, but colonial America is included.
  
  
• Archive of Early American Images     [Full Record]
  Digitized images relating to the Americas which appeared in books printed in Europe before 1825, many reproduced here for the first time. From the collections of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.
  
  
• Art Abstracts     [Full Record]
  Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, published from 1984 to present. Covers a broad range of art topics: advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture and art history. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• ARTbibliographies Modern     [Full Record]
  Premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, and including photography. Includes citations and abstracts to English and foreign-language journal articles, books, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and reviews of books and exhibitions. Indexes materials published since 1974, with some entries dating to late 1960s. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Artcyclopedia / John Malyon     [Full Record]
  Searchable database of information on art and artists with links to image sites. Includes a chronological listing of women artists from the Renaissance to the present.
  
  
• Art History Resources on the Web / Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe     [Full Record]
  Links to art Web sites worldwide organized chronologically and geographically.
  
  
• ATLA Religion Database     [Full Record]
  Citations from international titles and multi-author works in the field of religion. Includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews. Covers all types of religions. Indexes materials published 1949 to present, with selected records going back to 1818. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals     [Full Record]
  Information about articles on architecture, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation appearing in international architecture journals and other publications 1934 - present. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Bibliography of the History of Art     [Full Record]
  Information about articles on European and American art from late antiquity to the present appearing in international art journals and other publications, 1973 to the present. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events: Pre-1620 to 1920 / Donna M. Campbell     [Full Record]
  An American literature timeline supplemented with links to biographical and historical information.
  
  
• British Library Manuscripts Catalogue     [Full Record]
  A single portal for access to the mainstream catalogues of the British Library Department of Manuscripts, covering materials acquired from 1753 to the present day.
  
  
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes     [Full Record]
  Full text electronic version of the 1907-21 edition of the encyclopedia. Essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.
  
  
• Canada's Early Women Writers     [Full Record]
  Database of biographical and publication information of women who lived in Canada or wrote about Canada, and authored an English-language work of fiction or poetry published before 1940. Includes titles of publications and references to archival resources.
  
  
• Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925     [Full Record]
  The text with images of some 141 books about the Chesapeake region, including Mary Clemmer Ames's Ten years in Washington : Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them (1873) Ames, John Smith’s Generall Historie of Virginia (1624), Robert Beverley’s History of Virginia (1722), and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia.
  
  
• Catalog of Links Keyed to Whitney Chadwick's Women, Art and Society / Mary Ann Sullivan     [Full Record]
  Links to images and information on women artists of all periods.
  
  
• Catholic Encyclopedia     [Full Record]
  Information on Catholic interests, action and doctrine -- historical and contemporary.
  
  
• Celebration of Women Writers / Mary Mark Okerbloom, ed.     [Full Record]
  Primary texts, biographical information, and bibliographies on women writers of all nationalities and time periods.
  
  
• Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873     [Full Record]
  Records of the proceedings of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress to 1873, includes images of original publications with searchable texts.
  
  
• Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636-1776     [Full Record]
  Online edition of the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776, originally published in 15 volumes.
  
  
• Contemporary Women's Issues     [Full Record]
  Full text of material published since 1992 on women's issues and related topics. Includes journal articles, newsletters, and research reports from government and international agencies, and fact sheets. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum     [Full Record]
  Information about works in the permanent collection including textiles, decorative art, and wallcoverings.
  
  
• Daguerreian Society     [Full Record]
  Early photographic images.
  
  
• Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library     [Full Record]
  Web site of the Bodelian Library's Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts. Collections include western manuscripts, rare books and printed ephemera, maps and music manuscripts.
  
  
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture     [Full Record]
  Online access to digitized images, primary and secondary texts, and other information relating to Early American arts and culture.
  
  
• Discovering American Women\'s History Online     [Full Record]
  This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States.
  
  
• Documenting the American South     [Full Record]
  A collection of primary source material on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
  
  
• Early American Fiction 1789-1875     [Full Record]
  When complete, this full text searchable database will include over 750 works of fiction by more than 130 American authors. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Early American Imprints     [Full Record]
  Digital collection, based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography, containig full text of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Colonial America and the United States from 1639 through 1800. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Early American Paintings in the Worcester Art Museum     [Full Record]
  Paintings in the Worcester Art Museum's collection created prior to 1830 by artists who were either born or active in America.
  
  
• Early Americas Digital Archives     [Full Record]
  A collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
  
  
• Early Canadiana Online : Notre mémoire en ligne     [Full Record]
  Texts documenting the history of Canada from the 1550s to the twentieth century, including the Jesuit Relations.
  
  
• Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal     [Full Record]
  Journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender during the years 1400 to 1700. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Early Virginia Religious Petitions     [Full Record]
  Petitions regarding religious matters (relationship between church and state, rights of dissenters, etc.) presented to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802.
  
  
• Eighteenth-Century Resources / Jack Lynch     [Full Record]
  Links to resources on all aspects of the long 18th century including author Web sites, primary texts, electronic journals, bibliographies, and more.
  
  
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)     [Full Record]
  A digital archive, which when completed will comprise most works published in the United Kingdom and the Americas between 1701 and 1800. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project     [Full Record]
  Collection of poetry, prose and drama by women writing in English from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Includes edited as well as unedited texts.
  
  
• English Short Title Catalog     [Full Record]
  Catalog of most imprints (books, pamphlets, and broadsides) published from 1473 to 1800 in English or published in any language in English-speaking countries. Many titles are available on microform.
  
  
• Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project     [Full Record]
  Searchable online collection of American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century, including digital images of the pages of each cookbook as well as full-text transcriptions.
  
  
• First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820     [Full Record]
  This collection of "original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century" is drawn from the collections of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. It includes a number of documents by and about women.
  
  
• Furniture of the American South: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection     [Full Record]
  Online exhibition of American furniture from the period 1680 to 1830.
  
  
• Genders     [Full Record]
  Publishes articles that "consider genders and sexualities in relation to artistic, semiotic, political, literary, social, ethnic, racial, economic, rhetorical or legal concerns."
  
  
• GenderWatch     [Full Record]
  Full text database comprised primarily of periodicals that deal with gender issues, including academic and scholarly journals, regional publications, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, etc. Indexes materials published since 1970. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799     [Full Record]
  Collection of searchable text and page images including correspondence, letter books, commonplace books, journals, and diaries documenting eighteenth-century American life, includes correspondence with Martha Washington among other women.
  
  
• GGRENir: Internetography on Renaissance Intellectual History / Heinrich C. Kuhn, ed.     [Full Record]
  Browsable and searchable database of internet ressources relevant to renaissance intellectual history. Main focus is on the history of philosophy, but history of science, history of art, history of literature, history of theology, political history and more are covered as well.
  
  
• HAPI: Hispanic American Periodical Index     [Full Record]
  Information on articles and other materials from key social science and humanities journals published in Latin America and throughout the world. Coverage includes Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Heath Anthology of American Literature     [Full Record]
  Contains extensive resources for educators of American literature, including syllabi and online curriculum resources.
  
  
• History of Science, Technology, and Medicine     [Full Record]
  International bibliography for the history of science, technology, and medicine and their influence on culture, from pre-history to the present. Describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in all scientific disciplines and related fields published since 1975. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies     [Full Record]
  Annotated bibliography of books and articles published in Latin American studies.
  
  
• Household Words: Women Write from and for the Kitchen     [Full Record]
  Exhibition from Van Pelt Library's Aresty Collection of Rare Books, spaning five centuries and representing cultures from nearly every part of the world.
  
  
• Intute: Arts & Humanities     [Full Record]
  Arts and humanities Web gateway. Subdivided by discipline. Links to author Web sites, texts and projects, teaching resources, electronic journals, and other related material.
  
  
• Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, 1610 to 1791     [Full Record]
  Provides full text for entire English translation of the The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, execpt one.
  
  
• JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive     [Full Record]
  Electronic archive of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of journals with full-text of all articles published prior to the most current five years. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center     [Full Record]
  Major gateway to resources on all aspects of Latin America. Organized by subject and by region.
  
  
• Libweb: Library Servers via WWW / Thomas Dowling, ed.     [Full Record]
  Links to library Web page and online catalogs worldwide. Search by keyword or browse by location or library type.
  
  
• LION: Literature Online     [Full Record]
  Full text searchable database of selected British and American poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th century to the present. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Literary Gothic / Jack G. Voller, ed.     [Full Record]
  Web site devoted to literary gothicism, including gothic fiction from 1764 to 1820, and related gothic and supernatural literature written prior to the mid 20th century. Includes links to author Web sites, primary texts, essays, and bibliographies.
  
  
• Literary Resources on the Net / Jack Lynch     [Full Record]
  Web site devoted to English and American literature. Includes links to author Web sites, primary texts, teaching resources, electronic journals, listservs, scholarly conferences, and other related material.
  
  
• Literature for Children     [Full Record]
  A collection of digitized children's books published, predominantly in the United States and Great Britain, from the 17th through the 20th centuries.
  
  
• LLBA: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts     [Full Record]
  Information on journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, and book reviews on linguistics and its subdisciplines published since 1973. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Maryland State Archives     [Full Record]
  Complete texts of early Maryland records, including seventeenth and eighteenth-century court and legislative records.
  
  
• MLA International Bibliography     [Full Record]
  Information about journals, books, essay collections, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies published worldwide in the areas of literary criticism, language, linguistics, rhetoric, and folklore of all countries. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Modern Language Association of America     [Full Record]
  Web site for the MLA, whose mission is to work to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature. Includes information on membership, publications, annual convention, and professional resources.
  
  
• Mother of All Art History Links     [Full Record]
  Access to art Web sites organized by subject and type.
  
  
• Music Index Online     [Full Record]
  Indexes international music periodicals published since 1979. Includes citations for articles, dissertations, obituaries, and reviews. Covers nearly all genres of music, music equipment and technology, musical instruments, the music business, and more. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• National Gallery (London)     [Full Record]
  Images from the museum's permanent collection of European paintings.
  
  
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC     [Full Record]
  Information about works in the permanent collection, including images, artist biographies, and bibliographic material.
  
  
• National Museum of Women in the Arts     [Full Record]
  Information about women artists represented in the museum's permanent collection, including images of their works.
  
  
• National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC)     [Full Record]
  Images of portraits in the museum's permanent collection and access to records in the Catalog of American Portraits.
  
  
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections     [Full Record]
  A free cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress for manuscript collections. Allows users to search both the RLG Union Catalog and the OCLC Catalog for manuscript materials.
  
  
• netLibrary     [Full Record]
  Complete electronic texts of scholarly monographs and editions, as well as reference works, literature and fiction. Also includes a number of publicly accessible electronic texts (no subscription required). Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• New York Public Library Dance Collection Catalog     [Full Record]
  Lists the holdings of the New York Public Library Dance Collection. The collection consists of books, periodical articles, video recordings, and other media. All forms of dance, from all cultures, in many languages are included.
  
  
• New York Public Library Picture Collection Online     [Full Record]
  30,000 digitized images from books, magazines, and newspapers covering 12,000 subjects representing the period from the late 1400s to the early 1900s.
  
  
• North American Society for the Study of Romanticism     [Full Record]
  Society devoted to the study of Romantic works of all genres, nations and disciplines.
  
  
• Online Books Page / John Mark Ockerbloom, ed.     [Full Record]
  Links to electronic texts and text collections in all subject areas.
  
  
• Oxford Art Online     [Full Record]
  Includes the full text of the Grove Dictionary of Art (1996) and the Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001) with online updates and links to images from museum Web sites worldwide. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Oxford Text Archive     [Full Record]
  Provides high-quality scholarly electronic texts and linguistic corpora (and any related resources) of long-term interest and use across the range of humanities disciplines including history and law.
  
  
• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project     [Full Record]
  A major Web site for research in American literature covering the pre-colonial period through the late twentieth century. Includes information on key literary movements and concepts, selected bibliographies, information on authors, study questions, and links to Web sites.
  
  
• Periodicals Index Online     [Full Record]
  Indexes articles in arts, humanities and social sciences periodicals published since the 19th century in 37 key subject areas. Includes a full text archive and direct linking to JSTOR. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia / Patricia Scott Deetz, James Deetz, and Christopher Fennell     [Full Record]
  Full-text documents from seventeenth-century Plymouth with commentary.
  
  
• Pocahontas Archive     [Full Record]
  Collection of materials relating to the study of Pocahontas (and, by association, John Smith, Jamestown, and early Virginia) from early America into 2007. Includes histories, biographies, poems, plays, fiction, textbooks, movies, essays, dissertations, newspaper articles, children\'s books, paintings, sculpture, recordings, genealogies. Also includes an image gallery with over 150 images of Pocahontas.
  
  
• Poetess Archive     [Full Record]
  Bibliography of works by and about writers working in and against the "poetess tradition," the extraordinarily popular, but much criticized, flowery poetry written in Britain and America between 1750 and 1900. There is also a growing collection of full-text images.
  
  
• Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online     [Full Record]
  Full text of recent issues of journals from Johns Hopkins University Press and other scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literary studies, history, the visual & performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many other arts and humanities and social science disciplines. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies     [Full Record]
  A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles in Hebrew, Yiddish and English.
  
  
• Remain: A Digital Archive of Letters, Manuscripts and Ephemera      [Full Record]
  A collection of random letters and documents from people in all walks of life, from a 1484 deed to Kennedy and Nixon\'s presidential papers.
  
  
• Renascence Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799     [Full Record]
  Full text collection of works printed in English from 1477 through 1799.
  
  
• Repositories of Primary Sources     [Full Record]
  A listing of over 5,000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
  
  
• Representative Poetry On-line     [Full Record]
  Full text of British and American poems from the Old English period through the twentieth century.
  
  
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature     [Full Record]
  An international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines published since 1967. Includes articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, dissertations, reviews and more. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Romantic Chronology     [Full Record]
  Chronology of literary, social and historical events in Great Britain and other countries, with links to related websites. Covers the time period of 1642-1851, with emphasis on the romantic period.
  
  
• Salem Witch Trials Documentary and Archive and Transcription Project     [Full Record]
  Transcription of the court records from Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds., The Salem Witchcraft Papers, 3 vols., 1977; images of original court records; transcripts of Salem Village Church and Salem Village record books.
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution Research Information System : Smithsonian Archives, Manuscripts and Photographs Catalog     [Full Record]
  Descriptions of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, sound recordings, films, and organizational records from ten Smithsonian repositories. Many scanned images are available in the "Image Gallery."
  
  
• Society for the Study of American Women Writers     [Full Record]
  Society devoled to the study of American Women Writers.
  
  
• Society for the Study of Early Modern Women     [Full Record]
  Society devoted to the study of women in the early modern period.
  
  
• Society of Early Americanists     [Full Record]
  Home page for the Society of Early Americanists, containing primary source material, bibliographies, works in progress, etc.
  
  
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project / Luis M. Villar     [Full Record]
  Web site containing an electronic edition of her works, chronology, bibliography, and other materials related to her world.
  
  
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy / Edward N. Zalta, ed.     [Full Record]
  Covers philosophy and philosopers in general. Browse table of contents or search by word(s) appearing in the text.
  
  
• Traditional Ballad Index: An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World     [Full Record]
  Searchable database of information about English language folk ballads. Offers a variety of information about each song, including a brief description, a bibliography, and historical background.
  
  
• UK National Register of Archives     [Full Record]
  The indexes of the NRA offer a means of searching the catalogues and lists held within the NRA. This material provides information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records relating to British history. Search by corporate name, personal name, family name, or place name.
  
  
• Virginia Colonial Records Project     [Full Record]
  Catalog of records of colonial Virginia in libraries and archives in Great Britain, Ireland, and France.
  
  
• Voice of the Shuttle -- Architecture / Alan Liu, ed.     [Full Record]
  Web directory of sites devoted to architecture. Organized by subject and includes sites for image archives, museums and libraries, architecture journals, and more.
  
  
• Voice of the Shuttle -- Art History / Alan Liu, ed.     [Full Record]
  Web directory of sites devoted to art history. Organized by subject and geographic area, it also includes links to museums, galleries, institutes and centers, art history journals, academic departments and programs, and teaching resources.
  
  
• Voice of the Shuttle / Alan Liu, ed.     [Full Record]
  Major Web directory of sites devoted to the Humanities. Subdivided by discipline. Links to author websites, texts and projects, teaching resources, electronic journals, listservs and information on scholarly conferences and other related material.
  
  
• Winterthur     [Full Record]
  Information about works in the permanent collection including objects made or used in America between 1640 and 1860, many displayed in the museum's 175 period rooms.
  
  
• Women's Studies International     [Full Record]
  Compiled from ten women's studies indexes and bibliographies. Primarily an index of the feminist press--including periodical sources, books, book chapters, nonprint materials, proceedings, reports, theses, websites, web documents and grey literature--from 1972 to the present. Subscription only - contact your library.
  
  
• Women, Enterprise & Society: A Guide to Resources in the Business Mansucripts Collection at Baker Library     [Full Record]
  Identifies materials such as account books, day books, letters, legal documents, and payroll registers that document women's participation in American business and culture from the eighteenth through the twentieth century.
  
  
• WorldCat     [Full Record]
  Combined catalog of books, serial publications, media, visual materials, musical scores, archival and other materials in libraries worldwide. Subscription only - contact your library.