Useful Resources in American Literature
and Culture
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African
American Heritage and Ethnography: A National Park Service
distance-learning course.
- African American Women
Writers of the Nineteenth Century: The Schomburg Library's collection of digitized
texts.
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American Authors: A range of
materials on American authors. This site can be slow to load and browse.
- The American Historical Association:
The site of an important organization of American historians.
- American
Indian Studies: CSULB Professor Troy Johnson's collection of texts, images, and
links to various resources.
- American
Memory: Digital exhibits from the rich collections of the Library of Congress.
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American Periodical Series: Searchable full-text and page images of several
hundred American periodicals of the eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries.
- The American Studies Association
- American
Studies Resources on the Internet
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The Atlantic Slave Trade
and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record: A project of
The Virginia Foundation
for the Humanities and
The
Digital Media Lab at the University
of Virginia Library, by
Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr.
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The Avalon Project at
Yale Law School: A collection of "documents in Law, History, and
Diplomacy."
- The Civil War's Black Soliders: A National Park Service site .
- Digital Archive of
American Architecture: Photos and explanatory material prepared by Professor
Jeffery Howe of Boston College.
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Digital History: An online
textbook, along with teaching resources, documents, and links.
- Discovering American Women's History Online
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Documenting the American South:
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's collection of resources for
the study of southern history, literature and culture.
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France in America /
France en Amérique: A Library of Congress bilingual digital library
exploring the history of the French presence in North America from the
sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.
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From Revolution to
Reconstruction: A Hypertext on American History from the colonial
period until Modern Times, published by the
Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- H-AMSTDY:
The home page of the H-Net list for American Studies.
- Historical Text Archive:
Originally at Mississippi State University; now includes many ads.
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History Matters: Materials
on teaching US history.
- Integrated Public Use
Microdata Series census microdata for social and economic research: The University of Minnesota's twenty-five samples of the
American population drawn from thirteen federal censuses, 1850 to 1990.
- Maps and GIS at Northwestern University Library
- National Archives and Records
Administration
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National Museum of
American Art: A rich site including permanent and rotating exhibits.
- Native
American Documents Project: A collection of nineteenth-century documents at
California State University, San Marcos.
- NativeWeb:
Resources on indigenous cultures around the world.
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Portraits
of American Women Writers that Appeared in Print before 1861: An exhibit
by the Library Company of Philadelphia.
- Soldiers and Sailors Database: The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) is a database containing information about the men who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. It includes a database of over 230,000 names
of the United States Colored Troops (USCT).
- Spanish-American
War in Motion Pictures: From the Library of Congress.
- Frederick Jackson Turner's The Frontier In American History:
In the University of Virginia's hypertext collection.
- United States
Historical Census Data Browser: The University of Virginia's historical census data site, developed
in cooperation with the Inter-university Consortium
for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The site
covers the period from 1790 to 1970 and has wonderful search engines.
- A Chronolgy of US
Historical Documents: From the University of Oklahoma Law Center.
- Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land: The American
West as Symbol and Myth: In the University of Virginia's hypertext collection.
- Teaching With Documents:
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment: Documents relating to woman suffrage in the
United States.
- World War II Poster Collection: A searchable exhibit at Northwestern University Library.
- University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service:
Assorted collections, some with access restrictions.
The American
Colonist's Library: Rick Gardiner's collection of primary
documents relevant to early American history and culture.
American
Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and
Settlement.
American Literature I Index
From Earliest Times To 1865
American Revolution Prints and Drawings in the Library of Congress
The American Sense of Puritan:
An essay by Scott Eric Atkins as part of the Capitol Project, from the American Studies
group at the University of Virginia, this site includes a section on representations of
Puritans in the Capitol building.
Archives of Maryland: Searchable database of Maryland records.
Archiving Early America:
Digitally-displayed primary source material from eighteenth-century America.
The
Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands: Library of Congress and the
National Library of the Netherlands project on the Dutch presence in America
and the interactions between the United States and the Netherlands from
1609 to the twentieth century.
A Colonial
Abortion Drama: Larry Cebula's collection of documents relating to
an eighteenth-century abortion case.
Colonial Connecticut
Records, 1636-1776: The public records of the colony of Connecticut,
1636-1776.
Colonization
& Print in the Americas: An online exhibit at the library of the University
of Pennsylvania.
Common-Place: An online journal of
early American culture.
The Computerized
Information Retrieval System on Columbus and the Age of Discovery: A site
developed at Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
DoHistory: A site focused on Martha
Ballard, early American midwife, with resources on eighteenth-century domestic
life, law, religion, and midwifery.
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
-- full-text and
full-image of works printed in America from 1639-1800.
Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) -- full
text and full image of works printed in the United States 1801-1819.
Early American Newspapers (1690-1876) -- full text and full image access
to American newspapers 1690-1876.
Early Americas Digital
Archive
Early
Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
Early
Virginia Religious Petitions: A collaborative exhibit of the Library of
Congress and the Library of Virginia
Evans Digital Edition:
Searchable full-text contents of the Evans Digital Edition.
(Barnard College and Columbia University users only.)
Faiths
of the Founders: Documents on the Religious Beliefs of the Founding
Fathers: Documents gathered by Larry Cebula of Missouri
Southern State University.
Farber Gravestones: A
digital image collection of historic gravestones.
George
Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-99
Histories
of the Battle of Saratoga, 1777: A collection of histories and maps related to
this important battle.
Internet Library of Early Journals:
British journals from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Interpreting
the Declaration by Translation
The Jesuit Relations
and Allied Documents
JonathanEdwards.com
The Judith
Sargent Murray Society
The Massachusetts Historical
Society
Nipmuc Place
Names in New England: Includes maps of seventeenth-century Native American towns
and settlements.
The Omohundro
Institute of Early American History and Culture
The Plymouth Colony Archive:
A wealth of material related to Plymouth colony, including a searchable text
of Of Plymouth Plantation.
Priscilla's Homecoming: The
experiences of a 10-year-old girl taken on the slave ship Hare
from Sierra Leone to South Carolina in 1756, by the Gilder Lehrman Center for
the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University.
Raid on Deerfield: The
Many Stories of 1704: Presented by the
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
/ Memorial Hall Museum.
Rare Map Collection
- Colonial America: Maps of colonial American
from the University of Georgia's Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Religion and the Founding of
the American Republic: A Library of Congress exhibit rich in images and
explanatory materials.
Seventeenth-century
American Architecture: Photos and explanatory material prepared by Professor
Jeffery Howe of Boston College.
Society of Early
Americanists: The Society's home page.
WWW-VL: History:
USA: Discovery & Exploration: An extensive list of links.
The Transatlantic 1790s: A
student website from Grinnell College.
US Founding
Documents: This site at Emory University Includes Scanned Originals of Early
American Documents.
William and
Mary Quarterly
The Winthrop
Papers
- African American Women
Writers of the Nineteenth Century: The Schomburg Library's collection of digitized
texts.
- Researching
Nineteenth-century American Women Writers: A list of resources and
links compiled by Barnard librarian Karen Dobrusky and Lisa Gordis.
- 19th Century American Architecture:
Photos and explanatory material prepared by Professor Jeffery Howe of Boston College.
- Landscapes in Nineteenth-Century
American Art: A collection of links to images and exhibits.
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Selected Civil War
Photographs Home Page: From the Library of Congress.
- Hope Greenberg:
Godey's Lady's Book
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Dickinson, Emily.
1924. Poems.
- The Journals of Lewis and
Clark: From the University of Virginia's hypertext collection.
- The Life and Works of
Herman Melville
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Harriet Beecher Stowe--Harriet
Beecher Stowe in the Celebration of American Women Writers.
- Harriet
Beecher Stowe House--The
Harriet Beecher Stowe House and Library, with photographs and touring information about Stowe's residence.
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Henry David Thoreau:
Jone Johnson's site with information, texts, and links.
- Political
Cartoons and Cartoonists: Edited by Jim Zwick. Includes
"History of the 19th Century in Political Cartoons,"
"American Caricatures Pertaining to the Civil War," and
"Abraham Lincoln in Political Cartoons."
- The
Transcendentalists: Jone Johnson's site with information, texts, and links.
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Turning Points in
Wisconsin History: A site of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
- Walt
Whitman Archive--University of Virginia's collection of texts and images. Contains texts and images, including the 1855, 1881-2, and
1891-2 editions of Leaves of Grass, as well as Drum-Taps.
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Library
of Congress Whitman Page--Access to four Walt Whitman Notebooks and a cardboard
butterfly that were missing from 1942 until 1945.
- Five Points:
Archaeological and historical material on a nineteenth-century New York neighborhood.
- 1874 Map of New York City
Shoreline
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Meeting of Frontiers: an
English-Russian digital exhibit on the American West, the Russian Far East,
and the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
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