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Literature

Aesop's Fables Online
University of Oklahoma.

American Verse Project
The University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative.

Bartleby.com
Bartleby is named for a "scrivener" or professional copyist, from a short story by Herman Melville. This site offers a wide selection of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. It includes the Harvard Classics

A Celebration of Women Writers
Developed in collaboration with the On-Line Book Page, this site concentrates on the development of on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copy works by women writers.

ClassicReader.com
Offers fiction, nonfiction, children's, poetry and short stories. For a small fee one can even annotate the books as one reads them.

Complete works of William Shakespeare
From The Tech, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
Stanford University. "Consists of over 8,000 individual items and includes long runs of major dime novel series and story papers."

Humanities Digital Information Service
Stanford University. Some items on this list are only available to Stanford students.

Legends
For eons storytellers have spun tales; this website is a collection of many of the major legends of western civilization - it includes supporting materials as well.

LibriVox
Provides free audio files of classic literature and other works in the public domain.

Literature for Children
A collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950. At the core of this Collection are books from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, housed in the Department of Special Collections and Area Studies at the University of Florida. A project of the State University System of Florida funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Online Book Page
20,000 titles from the University of Pennsylvania.

The Perseus Digital Library
The Perseus Project from Tufts University. It started out to offer access to classical era documents, but has since expanded to cover a number of historical periods.

Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library - The Digital Collections
The digitized portions of the rare book, manuscript and special collections of Duke University.

Read Print
An online library offering thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.

Writers on America
Collection of 15 authors selected by the State Department to represent American writing.

Religion

Internet Sacred Text Archive
A collection of the texts important to virtually every religion on the planet.

Religious Studies Web Guide
From librarians at the University of Calgary and Library of Congress

Social Science

American Indian Women
Digitized primary sources on American Indian Women from Middle Tennessee State University.

American Journeys
Eyewitness accounts of early American exploration from the Wisconsin Historical Society's digital collections.

Archives of Irish America
New York University.

Collections Online: Visual Materials of American Immigration & Ethnic History
University of Minnesota.

Cornell University Law School: Legal Information Institute
Full-text access to codes, constitutions and laws on the national and state level, including full-text access to Supreme Court decisions.

Documenting the American South
A full-text project of the University of North Carolina.

Eurodocs: Primary European history documents
Brigham Young University

Eyewitness: American Originals from the National Archives
[Macromedia Flash Player]. An interactive exhibit designed to complement an in situ exhibit at the National Archives. The exhibit allows visitors to explore remarkable photographs and primary documents from the National Archives. Currently, visitors can view just over a dozen such documents and photographs on the site, but there are plans to expand in the near future. Within the General Washington section, visitors will learn about his concern with a potential smallpox infection during the Revolutionary War, accompanied by scanned letters in his own hand and several pieces of visual ephemera. The site also includes first-hand accounts offered by other personages, including George H.W. Bush and John Lewis.

Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
From Michigan State University - the most important 19th and 20th century cookbooks.

Freedom's Journal
Wisconsin Historical Society, complete text of the first African-American periodical, published in New York, 1827-1829.

The Jewish Virtual Library
Jewish history, the Holocaust and Jewish information.

Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
University of San Francisco offers access to the world's largest collection of materials on tobacco, advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales and scientific research

Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the ante-bellum period through reconstruction from a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan and Cornell University, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

NARA: U.S. National Archives & Records Administration
United States National Archives - sometimes called the attic of America. Offers index access as well as full-text of more recent or pertinent documents.

Salem Witch Trials
Maps, transcripts and other documents from the Salem witchcraft trials.

University of Southern California Digital Archive
Materials on Chinese, Korean and Japanese immigration.

Virtually Missouri
A project of the Missouri State Library - contains an astonishing selection of historical material from the state.

Collections of Collections

The American Memory Project
The Library of Congress. Materials spanning the collections of one of the largest libraries in the world.

Bentley Snow Crystal Collection of the Buffalo Museum of Science
A digital library providing a high-quality collection of stunning, un-retouched images of Wilson A. Bentley’s original glass slide photographs of snow crystals, and includes dynamic resources to further an appreciation and understanding of Bentley and his work.

Collections: Digital Library Program
Indiana University's digital library includes Victorian women authors and the papers of the songwriter, Hoagy Carmichael.

Columbia University: Digital Library Projects
Columbia University has several outstanding collections included, among them: dictionaries of the languages of Asia and women's history.

Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Includes New York and American history, as well as scientific materials.

The Digital Library: The New York Public Library
Includes "The African American Migration Experience"

Electronic Reference Resources
Albertsons Library at Boise State University offers an excellent list of digital book collections.

Electronic Text Collections and Archives
This list from Japan has an emphasis on literature in English - some items included are only available by subscription.

MIT Libraries: Digital Collections
MIT's collections include sheet music in PDF format and both American and Islamic architecture files.

Project Gutenberg
The first of the electronic text sites that contains more than 10,000 electronic books.

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image
This University of Pennsylvania Library site includes the NEH - funded collection "The English Renaissance in Context" that contains multimedia tutorial on four Shakespearean plays as well as four on the history of the book.

SunSITE Digital Collections
University of California - Berkeley.

The University of Chicago Library: Digital Library Activities
Digitized collections from Chopin to environmental photography.

University of Virginia Library: Electronic Text Center
Includes thousands of texts and images in a wide variety of subjects.

The Virtual Library: Digital Libraries

Created by Damaris Schmitt, Reference Librarian