Electronic Web Sources for Early American Literature
General Reference
The American Heritage Virtual Archive Project
"a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Duke University, and the University of Virginia is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Project is creating a shared database of EAD-encoded finding aids describing and providing access to collections documenting American history and culture. The primary goal of this project will be the development of a demonstration system, which will also provide a test bed to evaluate both the effectiveness of the prototype's "virtual archive" in providing access to distributed digital library resources, and the feasibility of the decentralized production methods of the project. To achieve its goal, the project will explore intellectual, political, technical, and economic concerns."
Archive
of Americana
"Readex has launched the digital edition of Early American Newspapers, which offers fully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers published between 1690 and 1876. Early American Newspapers will present-upon completion of Segment I in July 2006-more than 1,000 newspapers and over one million pages, providing access as never before to the civic, political, social and cultural events of American life over nearly two centuries."
Archiving
Early America
"Here at Archiving Early America, you will discover a wealth of resources -- a unique array of primary source material from 18th Century America. Scenes and portraits from original newspapers, maps and writings come to life on your screen just as they appeared to this country's forebears more than two centuries ago."
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Berkeley
Digital Library
"The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide."University of Pennsylvania Library
Bible: King
James Version
British
Empire-Research Guide
"This selective bibliography lists resources useful for the study of the British Empire."University of Pennsylvania Library
Cultural
Readings
"Any account of the colonization of the Americas must acknowledge the prodigious number of texts which colonization generated. "Cultural Readings" presents a sample of those texts. The web site is grouped into six broad categories; it also includes scholarly essays on topics related to the exhibition and a brief bibliography and list of web links."
A digital library
of 18th and 19th Century journals
"ILEJ, the "Internet Library of Early Journals" was a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aimed to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data."
Early Americas Digital Archive
"a collection of electronic texts written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820."
Early
American Fiction
"Early American fiction dating from 1789-1850. A subset of the collection that includes over 175 texts and all of the manuscript items and ancillary materials is freely available to all users as part of the Digital Library at the University of Virginia."
Early
American Documents
Digital History
"This Web site was designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges and is supported by the Department of History and the College of Education at the University of Houston. The materials on this Web site include a U.S. history textbook; over 400 annotated documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library, supplemented by primary sources on slavery, Mexican American and Native American history, and U.S. political, social, and legal history; succinct essays on the history of film, ethnicity, private life, and technology; multimedia exhibitions; and reference resources that include a searchable database of 1,500 annotated links, classroom handouts, chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive including speeches and book talks by historians, and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images. The site's Ask the HyperHistorian feature allows users to pose questions to professional historians."
Gilder Lehrman Institute
"Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history. Increasingly national and international in scope, the Institute's initiatives target audiences ranging from students to scholars to the general public. The Institute creates history-centered schools and academic research centers; organizes seminars and enrichment programs for educators; produces print and electronic publications and traveling exhibitions; and sponsors lectures by eminent historians. The Institute funds awards including the Lincoln and Frederick Douglass Book Prizes and offers fellowships for scholars to work in the Gilder Lehrman Collection and other archives. The Institute maintains this website to serve as a portal for American history on the Web; to offer high-quality educational material for teachers, students, historians, and the public; and to provide up-to-the-minute information about the Institute's programs and activities."
History
Matters
"Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful."
The Internet Modern History Sourcebook
The Internet Modern History Sourcebook now contains thousands of sources and the previous index pages were so large that they were crashing many browsers. The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project.
PAL:
Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
"With more than 400 pages, including over 360 author pages, this is a major site in American literature on the web."
Making
of America
"Making of America (MoA) is 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. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints."
17th-Century
New England
"17th c. Colonial New England, with special emphasis on The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692"
SAC Lit Web: American Literature I Index From Earliest Times To 1865
The World Wide Virtual Library: History: USA: Discovery and Exploration
A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times
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