Subject Websites: Humanities

This collection of Internet links about American History is organized according to which century certain events took place in. It is an exhaustive list of links.

Information on GIS projects and records: including atlases, downloadable maps and articles relating to cartography, epigraphy and historical geography.

This is a "companion web site to the video series and telecourse." Sections are arranged chronologically.

Includes digitized primary source material, such as newspapers, maps, magazines and writings, from 18th Century America.

A collection of online biographical resources, curated by a librarian.

history of Great Britain in an easy to use rich variety of information.

Presents an online historical collection of American newspapers, with issues ranging all the way back to 1690.

Provides examples using Chicago, MLA, and APA citation styles.

"CRDL is a partnership among librarians, technologists, archivists, educators, scholars, academic publishers, and public broadcasters. The initiative receives support through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. "

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) includes sixteen thematic collections of primary sources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture.

"The Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World (EHW) is an original electronic project aiming at collecting, recording, documenting, presenting and promoting the historical data that testify to the presence of Hellenic culture throughout time and space."

Oxford U. et als. Letters, photos, film on WWI. Great place for primary resources.

"EGO | European History Online is a transcultural history of Europe on the Internet. The project investigates processes of intercultural exchange in European history whose impact extended beyond state, national and cultural borders. EGO describes Europe as a constantly changing communicative space which witnessed extremely varied processes of interaction, circulation, overlapping and entanglement, of exchange and transfer, but also confrontation, resistance and demarcation."

Use the "filter" button to select a particular president and find the speech you want. From the Miller Center, affiliated with the University of Virginia.

From a British perspective.

Find info about Florida's archives, museums and archeological exhibits. Also includes listings of events and grant opportunities.

Lib. of Congress online compilation.

From 1850-1950.

Includes teaching and learning resources related to history education. Options include sample quizzes, syllabi, and discussion forums, among others.

Goals: to ensure that discussions of current events occur within a historical framework constructed by historians of differing views (a political slant is--much to the credit of the staff--indiscernible). Equally impressive is the variety of information offered: blogs, editorial pieces and topical articles (both internal and external), discussions of books, and resource guides to written and digital sources.

"The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America documents the lives of women of the past and present for the future and furthers the Radcliffe Institute's commitment to women, gender, and society."

Comprehensive Holocaust resource from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website.

Three main sections: ancient, medieval, and modern, as well as subsections. The sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts. From Fordham University.

Georgetown University's archive of resources in Medieval studies.

900+ BBC radio broadcasts by Alistair Cooke to Britons sharing insights on social, political and cultural aspects of American life as a counterpoint to the Hollywood image of the US.

University of Virginia's exhibition of maps, navigational instruments, and other resources from Columbus to Lewis & Clark.

Formerly American Memory.from the Library of Congress.

From the About page: Founded in 1791, the Massachusetts Historical Society is an invaluable resource for American history, life, and culture. The MHS collections are particularly well-known for extensive holdings of personal papers from three presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.

By Peter Konieczny and Sandra Alvarez. Promotes medieval studies to a wide audience.

"Here you will find information on heraldry, myths and legends, religion, medicine, and other aspects of life in Britain during the Middle Ages."

Behring Ctr. of the Smithsonian's website; includes links to numerous virtual exhibitions and lesson plans for educators, K-12, in US History.

Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to "check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents." Based at George Washington University.

The National WWII Museum offers new ways to connect to history and honor the generation that sacrificed so much to secure our freedom.

Database of over 20,000 materials related to the New Deal includes primary sources such as photographs, political cartoons, speeches, letters, and other documents. These materials were collected and digitized from the FDR Presidential Library, the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and other organizations

Timelines of multiple regions and countries throughout multiple time periods, as well as timelines of issues/themes.

from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency

"Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature, and culture through primary sources. Drawing online materials from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States, the sets use letters, photographs, posters, oral histories, video clips, sheet music, and more. Each set includes a topic overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide." Browse by subject, time period and chronology.

From The Library of Congress American Memory collection.

Covers science and technology and draws from different parts of the Institution.

Historical timelines for world history, history by country, topic, etc. From Pearson Education (publisher of instructional materials for schools, colleges and corporations), publishing as InfoPlease.

The Center Of Military History (CMH), which reports to the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army, is responsible for the appropriate use of history throughout the United States Army. Traditionally, this mission has meant recording the official history of the Army in both peace and war, while advising the Army Staff on historical matters.

This site aims at deepening our understanding of Leonardo da Vinci through a series of European exhibitions, scientific research and web-based resources.

Michael Eidenmuller's Site includes offers a speech bank including text, audio, and video speeches. Also includes supplemental information on public speaking and communication.

Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to "check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents." Based at George Washington University.

"Newspapers.com is an aggregator of information on local, national, and international newspapers. The landing page has a straightforward design and offers visitors the ability to search for newspapers in nine regions, with the US and North America listed separately. A navigation bar at the top offers shortcuts to focused geographic searches as well as a list of the top 100 US newspapers and a listing of job sites....."

MediaShift tracks how new media -- from weblogs to podcasts to citizen journalism -- are changing society and culture.

Online home for the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a watchdog organization for the press and media. Offers annual reports on Newspaper and Television journalism and more.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Browse topics or use the search box.

A reporting project that covers issues such as education standards and curriculum, student testing, teacher pay and evaluation, school choice and higher education. Stories are featured on WUSF and national NPR shows, and through digital and print collaborations.

"The collection is remarkably comprehensive, putting controversial and stunt-driven pieces next to award-winning achievements in investigative journalism. This invaluable research tool provides a wealth of material and also makes a profound argument for undercover reporting as an inextricable part of US national history and as an essential mode in the public-service mission of news. "

This site provides tips about how to be a better writer. It focuses primarily on creative writing, but also includes information about other compositional approaches.

A collection of links, discussion lists and blog updates pertaining to new advancements in legal research technology.

This site from Yale Law School collects historical documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government from pre-18th century to the present.

From Jessica Almeida, assistant librarian public services at UMass Law Library,

Daily information regarding all precedential opinions issued by the 13 federal circuit courts and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Law Library of Congress.

Provides info about civic engagement, technical assistance, and policy & legislation news surrounding the issue of immigration in the U.S.

"One stop shopping" site that provides a search engine plus a menu of of law-related Web sites.

Easily searchable online legal dictionary. Features multiple definitions of the same legal term, whenever appropriate, to reduce confusion and place the word in context.

The LII publishes electronic versions of core materials in numerous areas of the law, primarily on the Web.

Here, learn about the differences between Federal and State courts. Find out what sorts of cases fall under the Federal Courts' jurisdiction.

Find out how laws are proposed, made and enacted in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Learn about these Intellectual Property legal concepts, and see how they affect inventors and companies.

Find statistics, historical documents, video clips, and more information about the history and legislative procedures of the U.S. Senate.

Organizations and resources that assist pro bono representatives with legal research, asylum documentation and mentoring.

Includes a news feed that relates current events in the areas of global Intellectual Property law (copyright, patents, trademarks, etc.). Also includes introductory information for students (see link on the left of the home page).

Two voted-upon lists of the best lesbian and gay works of literature. Site also includes event updates, etc.

Offers a searchable/browsable list of modern american poets and poetry. Full-text poetry is available as well as a listening booth with media files of poetry read by the author.

Provides current book reviews and profiles of the leading authors.

A bibliography of Internet resources related to American and English authors. Includes author webpages as well as discussion boards, etc.

Advice about grammar, punctuation, spelling and practical writing strategies.

Browse a wide range of current and unabridged audiobooks.

An online version of this massive study. Find exhaustive and detailed research here.

Michigan St. U. Coll. of Arts & Letters created ~31 audio files and intros to 31 well known authors and others.

Full-text of Shakespeare's works are available at this MIT site. Also links to another recommended site Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet for secondary sources.

A scholarly consortium devoted to promoting the study, life, times and work of Charles Dickens.

A useful site for Dickinson research. Includes family writings, articles, responses to her writing and critical resources.

Creative Commons licensed; downloads easy.

Five Books is building a comprehensive library of knowledge, curating recommendations on any topic you might want to read books about. We have covered 1,055 topics so far and aim to add at least two new ones every week.

A large, full-text collection of international myths and folklore.

Harvard's valuable site for Chaucer information on the Web. Includes critical articles, translations, images, and bacground information on Chaucer and the Middle Ages.

From the Poetry Foundation.

Accessed through Bartleby.com, includes full text access to works by nearly major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.

"The mission of the ISE is to inspire a love of Shakespeare's works in a world-wide audience by delivering open-access, peer-reviewed Shakespeare resources with the highest standards of scholarship, design, and usability."

"The full texts of the 13 works are not supplied, but the value of the website lies in the plethora of multimedia elements that prompt and engage the student. As an introduction, the material is both riveting and useful."

In-depth reviews of new releases, as well as feature articles about new authors.

This PDF from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab serves as an introduction to literary theory and critical approaches to literature.

Links to information covering Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century Literature.

This free academic resource focuses on the writings and authors found in Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World.

Lists of new bestsellers, divided up by many different genres.

From the Internet Archive, read free library books online.

"Audio recordings of leading 20th-century poets. Supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University is gradually digitizing its immense archive of 4,000 hours of recordings from 1954 to the present to build this resource. The 53 recordings currently in the Archive primarily span the 1950s, and include readings by renowned poets such as Marianne Moore and Langston Hughes. The recordings are divided into three collections: A-L, M-Z, and the 1950s. The recordings themselves can be accessed as streaming files and as individual downloads; the audio quality is quite clear." (Choice Dec. 12)

Find poems, guides to poems, author information.

Provides e-texts of books in the public domain (including classic literature) available to download in plain text or ZIP files. The site is searchable and browsable by title and author.

Find info about past and current literature prize-winners and finalists.

Find online books, webcasts, and info about festivals and booklists.

A citation database of research on the history, criticism, commentary, fan writings and some reviews of Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror fiction.

Third Edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, which we are publishing online in collaboration with Gollancz and the SF Gateway.

This San Jose State Univ. site is a comprehensive and authorized resource for readers, students, teachers, and scholars of John Steinbeck.

An electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman’s work easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

This comprehensive site includes biography, synopses, annotated character listings, critical resources, and links to other important Web sources.

Interactive courses and exercises that will help students learn a foreign language.

Find language resources like videos, tutorials, and multilingual dictionaries.

Created by Deutsche Welle, Germany's international public broadcaster, provides free and comprehensive multimedia content for German-language learners and instructors at all levels.

This web site covers languages of the world and provides a country index with maps, and a browsable index of language names and information on each language.

The French Tutorial is a web-based step by step lesson covering basics, pronunciation, but also grammar, vocabulary and everyday French. It offers audio support for better oral comprehension, a table of contents and an index for faster searches.

Learn German vocabulary, pronunciation, and vocabulary for free. Also includes a brief overview of German language, culture, recipes and literature.

A basic dictionary of American Sign Language. Includes animated signs that require the QuickTime Plugin.

Find language teachers and have interactive discussions with people from around the world, in order to learn a new language and help teach others your own language.

Learn a language includes free language-learning lessons games and activities. Includes Spanish, Italian, French, German, Japanese, & Chinese.

Learn German online for free: 10 lessons for total beginners and 24 grammar lessons for advanced learners including numerous interactive exercises.

Learn pronunciation and how to speak the Italian language through podcast. There’s a free three day trial with a low cost for subscription.

Learn numerous foreign languages through links to podcasts and websites. Students can develop language skills, vocabulary, and comprehension while enhancing knowledge of foreign cultures.

A worldwide collaboration to strengthen endangered languages. Explore the languages map.

A global community for the preservation, revitalization, and support of indigenous languages worldwide.

Searchable by country or area, language name, number of speakers, and more.

Using their mother tongue, bearers of specific traditions often use highly specialized sets of terms and expressions, which reveal the intrinsic depth oneness between mother tongue and the intangible cultural heritage. This site features a selection of practices dealing closely with mother languages.

Michael Eidenmuller's Site includes offers a speech bank including text, audio, and video speeches. Also includes supplemental information on public speaking and communication.

Use the "filter" button to select a particular president and find the speech you want. From the Miller Center, affiliated with the University of Virginia.

For Fair and Orderly Meetings & Conventions.

Developed for a grad class on transcendentalism Prof. Woodlief (emer. VA Commonwealth U).

Online tutorials covering critical thinking, logic, scientific reasoning, creativity, and other aspects of thinking skills.

"A peer-reviewed academic resource" from The University of Tennessee-Martin.

This is an Open Access journal that consists of many scholarly Philosophy articles. The purpose of the Open Access movement is to reduce costs for subscriptions and instead use that money to support scholars in certain fields.

PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers.

The ARDA collects quantitative data sets for the study of American religion. The ARDA is a project supported by the Lilly Endowment.

Searchable database of photographs, slides, maps, manuscripts, sermons and images of Christian art. Contributions are from seminary and divinity school libraries.

Includes a collection of web links, clips and documents related to various world religions. BBC provides good introductions to these ways of thinking. This site even includes info about more esoteric religions such as Baha'i.

(Formerly Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center.) Searchable/browsable collection of digitally preserved Tibetan Buddhist documents & art, place photographs, and more. Does not work with Internet Explorer.

Digitized version of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia. The encyclopedia also includes a List of Popes, and the main page< New Advent, offers St. Augustine's Summa Theologica and more.

"Collects autobiographies, biographies, church documents, sermons, histories, encyclopedias, and other published materials. These present a collected history of the way Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life."

In partnership with Google, the new website gives users access to searchable, fast-loading, high-resolution images of the scrolls, as well as short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history.

A huge collection of links related to the religion of Hinduism. All aspects of the religion are exhaustively covered here.

Has subsections in Islamic and Jewish history. The sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts. From Fordham University.

Archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language.

Explore, discover and learn at the global Muslim eCommunity.

Harvard University's site devoted to the study and documentation of the growing religious diversity of the United States. Information available includes: current research, events, publications, resources, and related news.

This site was produced by the Library of Congress, and its purpose is to depict the religious beliefs and activities shared by early American founders. These depictions take place via images of archival materials, as well as captions explaining their importance.

This Library of Congress exhibit depicts images of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls. It also shares information about the Scrolls' original historical context, their religious content, and their archeological discovery.

News, events, programs and resources related to the WCC, which is a worldwide fellowship comprising many hundreds of individual churches.