4000 Years of Women in Science[Full Record] Biographical list of women in science including
astronomers, physicists, mathematicians, chemists, natural
philosophers, inventors, writers and many others, but only
a few physicians.
Aemilia Lanyer, 1569-1645[Full Record] Web site devoted to the author. Includes author’s works,
biographical information, bibliography of primary and
secondary sources, and link to listserv.
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 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.
Archon[Full Record] Principal gateway for archivists in the United Kingdom and
users of manuscript sources for British history. Includes,
the ARCHON Directory which provides contact information for
repositories in the United Kingdom and the ARCHON Portal, a
database of archival resources, projects and initiatives.
ARTFL Project[Full Record] A corpus of texts ranging from classic works of French
literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose
and technical writing. Genres include novels, verse,
theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises.
Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history,
economics, and philosophy. Subscription only - contact your library.
ARTstor[Full Record] Searchable database of digital images from most periods,
cultures, and media. Subscription only - contact your library.
bbc.co.uk History[Full Record] Provides short encyclopedic entries for historical topics
related to Great Britain. Includes biographies of historic
and literary figures, historical timelines, essays on topics
realted to society, culture, wars, conflicts and more.
British Academy John Foxe Project[Full Record] Information about project to publish Foxe's Acts and
Monuments ("Book of Martyrs") on cd-rom, with
presentation of portion of the text as demonstration.
British Book Trade Index[Full Record] Database of brief biographical and trade
details of all those who worked in the English and Welsh
book trades before 1852. Includes not only printers,
publishers and booksellers but also other related trades,
such as stationers, papermakers, engravers, auctioneers,
ink-makers and sellers of medicines.
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.
Camelot Project[Full Record] Database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic
information. Includes a section on "Women of the Arthurian
Legend".
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.
CHILDE: Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe[Full Record] 1,000 digitised images from collections of early children's
books published prior to 1891. Includes a bibliography of
secondary sources on the history of children's literature
and information on best practices for the physical
preservation, cataloguing, and promotion of historical
children’s books.
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.
Cotsen Children's Library[Full Record] A major historical collection of rare illustrated children's
books, manuscripts, original artwork, prints, and
educational toys from the 15th century to the present day in
over thirty languages.
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 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 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.
English Ballad Archive, 1500-1800[Full Record] Searchable, online archive of ballads from the Samuel
Pepys collection held by Cambridge University. Includes
facsimile images of the ballads along with transcriptions
and backgropund essays.
English Emblem Book Project[Full Record] Images of scanned pages of emblem books printed in Early
Modern England. Includes a chronology, bibliography, and
links to other emblem book Web sites.
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.
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.
Footwear of the Middle Ages / I. Marc Carlson[Full Record] A general guide to the history and development of footwear and shoemaking techniques in the European
Middle Ages, with some material pertaining to times before and after the Middle Ages.
gender Inn[Full Record] Bibliographic database of books, essays, and other material
pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism,
and gender studies focusing on English and American literature.
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.
German Emblem Books[Full Record] Searchable digital images of 12 seventeenth and eighteenth-
century German emblem books; includes images of
women.
H-Women Bibliographies[Full Record] Specialized bibliographies on women's and gender history, including during the medieval and early modern
periods.
H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies[Full Record] The H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, a research center devoted to the study of John Calvin and
Calvinism, this site includes the Calvinism Resources Database, a searchable database that provides information
about journal articles and other publications on Calvin and Calvinism from the 16th century to the present.
Historical Abstracts[Full Record] Information on articles, books, and dissertations published
since 1954 about non-U.S. and non-Canadian history from 1450
to present. Includes links to full text of selected journal
articles. Subscription only - contact your library.
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.
Hockliffe Project[Full Record] When complete, this project will include digitized images
of the entire Hockliffe Collection of children's books
owned by the De Montfort University. The books in the
collection, which number over 1,000, range in date from
1685 to the mid-twentieth century, with the majority
printed between 1760 and 1840.
Housewife's Rich Cabinet: Remedies, Recipies, & Helpful Hints[Full Record] Exhibit exploring the cabinet contents of the 16th,
17th, and 18th century housewife, including her medicines,
perfumes, cosmetics, cleaning solutions, pest controls, and
preserving hints, as recorded in books and
manuscripts.
Institut für Frauen und Geschlechterforschung[Full Record] Womens Studies and Research in Linz, Austria and Germany.
The opening page provides links to information on women in
Austria and Germany, worldwide information on women,
lectures, WWW links, and current issues.
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.
Issuing Her Own: The Female Tatler[Full Record] An historical and literary analysis of the Female Tatler, a
women's periodical published in London between 1709 and
1710. Includes information on the magazine's publication
history, readership, and major themes.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance[Full Record] Bibliography lists books, journal material, dissertation
abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in
conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and
exhibition catalogues) for materials pertaining to the
Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Also features
an International Directory of Scholars (IDS) and online
editions of several journals. Subscription only - contact your library.
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.
Lexicons of Early Modern English / Ian Lancashire, ed.[Full Record] Historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot
dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries,
spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving
in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline,
Commonwealth, and Restoration periods. Public and
subscription versions are available--the public version
allows simple searches on the multilingual lexical database
--which includes major bilingual English and
French-Italian-Latin-Spanish dictionaries--but lacks
advanced retrieval options. LEME replaces the Early Modern
English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD).
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.
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.
London Provisioner's Day Book, 1550-1563[Full Record] Online demonstration of planned electronic edition of the
diary of Henry Machyn, a rich source for the
history of mid-16th century London (and England generally).
Manuscript Miscellany[Full Record] A collaborative production of the college
teacher-participants in a 2005 NEH summer humanities
institute. “The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England“
sought to compare the states of scholarship and consolidate
research on the role of manuscripts in a variety of
discourses for a variety of audiences in a period extending
from the late middle ages into the eighteenth century.
Mapping Margery Kempe: A Guide to Late Medieval Material and Spiritual Life[Full Record] Resources on the cultural and social context of The Book of
Margery Kempe. Includes the text of the work as well as
primary source material such as images, maps, and documents
which relate to the author�s 15th century world and the
world of the parish. Also includes a bibliography and guides
for teaching.
Maryland State Archives[Full Record] Complete texts of early Maryland records, including
seventeenth and eighteenth-century court and legislative
records.
Modern Humanities Research Association[Full Record] Founded at Cambridge, England, in 1918, the MHRA has become
an international association representing scholarship in the
field of the modern and medieval languages and literatures
of Europe (including English) with members in all parts of
the world. Publishes books, texts and dissertations,
journals, and bibliographies.
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.
NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources / Andrea R. Harbin, ed.[Full Record] Links to texts, primary source documents, reference sources,
biographies, scholarly and teaching resources and other
materials in medieval studies. Major resources cover the
subjects of Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Civilizations,
Culture, Drama, History, Law, Literature, Music, People,
Philosophy, and Religion.
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies[Full Record] Gateway for Medieval Studies on the World Wide Web. The ORB
Text Library links to online transcriptions and translations
of primary source texts. The ORB Index is a topically
arranged list of resource guides. Also includes a list of
resources for the non-specialist, and resources for teaching.
Orlando Project: A History of Women's Writing in the British Isles[Full Record] This project, which is under construction, will include the
first full scholarly history of women's writing in the
British Isles. It will appear both as four individually
authored volumes of history and as an extensive,
collaboratively authored, electronic textbase.
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.
Perdita: Early Modern Women's Manuscript Compilations[Full Record] The project has purchased a microfilm collection of about
400 manuscripts compiled by women in the British Isles
during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Subjects
include poetry, religious writing, autobiographical
material, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts. An
online catalog is available (a password is required) which
offers bibliographical information and detailed descriptions
of contents for the information of historians and literary
scholars. The catalogue also includes the team's research on
the manuscripts and their compilers. Subscription only - contact your library.
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.
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.
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.
Regency Page / Cathy Decker[Full Record] Links to Web sites, primarily related to literature and
fashion, concerning the Regency period in England from 1811
to 1820.