Research Guides: Digital Collections: Humanities

Classics

Internet Classics Archive
Web versions of nearly 500 works of classical literature in English translation. Most are from ancient Greece and Rome, plus a handful of ancient Chinese and Persian works.
Online Medieval and Classical Library
This collection of texts gathers some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
Perseus Digital Library
This massive digital library maintained at Tufts University includes primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome and the English Renaissance.

English

American Verse Project (Univ. of Michigan)
Part of the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative, this digital library consists of nearly 200 volumes of American poetry published prior to 1920.
Baldwin's Library of Children's Literature
Several thousand fully-scanned children's books published in the United States or United Kingdom during the period 1850-1900, plus special collections on Alice in Wonderland and Robinson Crusoe.
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (Univ. of California-Davis)
This scholarly archive consists of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 and 1832.
The Jack London Collection (Sonoma State Univ.)
Letters, manuscripts and photographs, as well as out-of-print publications, electronic texts of some of London's writings, and original essays are gathered here.
James Joyce Scholars Collection (Univ. of Wisconsin)
This collection includes a broad range of works related to the study of Joyce, and includes out-of-print books and David Hayman's highly regarded publications on the subject.
Project Gutenberg
Read or download tens of thousands of ebook versions of books that are no longer copyright protected. Search by author, title, or genre to locate a book of your choosing.
Victorian Women Writers Project (pub'd by Indiana Univ. and housed by Univ. of Chicago)
This collection of works includes anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.
Wright American Fiction (Indiana Univ.)
This is a collection of 19th-century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. Nearly 3,000 volumes are available.

Fine Arts & Music

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Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institute)
Browse-able online collections of photographs, diaries, sketches, writings, and rare published materials by selected American artists.
Fine Art (Boston College)
European illuminated manuscripts, Japanese prints, and Irish embroidery. 15th-20th centuries.
Emergence of Advertising in America (Duke Univ.)
These companion websites provide over 15,000 searchable images of U.S. magazine and newspaper advertisements from 1850-1955.
Getty Research Portal
This search engine provides access to thousands of digitized full-text art history books.
Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD) (click on "Database")
This project includes images, sound recordings, video clips, and 3-D models of the world's performing arts with detailed descriptions.
Google Art Project
Zoomable images of works of art from over 100 of the world's most prominent museums.
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Over 29,000 pieces of music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. The focus of this online, searchable collection is popular American music.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Perhaps the largest gateway to images on the Web, this catalog enables keyword searching of over one million digital images from the Library of Congress's photographic collections.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1885 (Library of Congress)
This collection provides access to digitized sheet music from the 19th century, including popular songs, band music, and sacred and secular choral music.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
An online database of over 500,000 prints, photographs, illuminated manuscripts, maps, and vintage posters. You can search by keyword or browse by subject.
Petrucci Music Library
This online library is an attempt to gather all sheet music that is available in the public domain. Browse the library by composer, time period, genre, or other variables.
Web Gallery of Art
This "virtual museum" offers digital images of European artwork spanning the 12th to mid-19th centuries. Click on the thumbnail images to zoom in.

History

American Journeys
A collection of eyewitness accounts of early American exploration and settlement, from sagas of Vikings in Canada to diaries of mountain men in the Rockies.
Digital Collections (Library of Congress)
A collection of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures and text from the Library of Congress and other institutions. There are over 100 collections included in the project.
Avalon Project (Yale University)
Thousands of primary-source documents in the areas of law, history and diplomacy. Documents are organized into collections by century and topic. Notable are the Middle East documentary record and the World War II collection.
Digital Scriptorium (Univ of California - Berkeley)
A searchable digital collection of several thousand medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, useful to scholars in art history, theology, and medieval studies.
Documenting the American South (UNC - Chapel Hill)
An electronic collection that provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.
Founders Online (National Archives)
A digital collection of over 100,000 letters and other documents written by the US's founding fathers, including Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and others.
Historic Government Publications from World War II (Southern Methodist Univ.)
This digital collection contains several hundred documents, including 6,000 pages of pamphlets, posters, booklets, and photos from the World War II era.
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 (Harvard Univ.)
This digital collection portrays the immigrant experience through a large number of online books, photographs, diaries, and journals.
Letters of the Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789
A 25-volume, searchable and browseable collection of letters from all the delegates to the first Congress of the United States.
Making of America (MOA) (Cornell Univ.)
This digital library provide access to thousands of books and journal articles related to American social history, published during the 19th century.
Making of America (MOA) (Univ. of Michigan)
This digital library provide access to thousands of books and journal articles related to American social history, published during the 19th century.
Middle East Documentary Record
New Deal Network
A database of primary source materials related to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal. View photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, etc.).
Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection (Cornell Univ.)
Thousands of important pamphlets relating to the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels. Included are sermons, newsletters, poetry anthologies, Freedmen's testimonies, and broadsides.
Valley of the Shadow
A digital archive of thousands of primary sources from the American Civil War era. Access letters and diaries, census and government records, and newspapers and speeches documenting two counties in Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Women Working, 1800-1930 (Harvard Univ.)
A collection of manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and photographs that shed light on women's role in the workforce during this period of American history.
World War II Collection
World War II Resources
Primary source materials on all aspects of the war. Includes the Pearl Harbor attack hearings, speeches by Roosevelt, diplomatic documents from Britain and France, and much more.
Yad Vashem
This digital collection of resources about the Holocaust includes a photo archive, a Holocaust Resource Center of primary source materials, and video testimonies from survivors.

Modern Languages & Literatures

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
This digital library consists of approximately 25,000 major literary and historical works from Spain and Latin America.
Gallica
These French-language digital archives were created by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and include nearly 100,000 digitized works and a similar number of pictures.

Theology

Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Hundreds of classic works of Christian spirituality and theology, including writings of the Church Fathers. They can be read for free online.

Internet Sacred Text Archive
A massive collection of digitized texts about religion, mythology, and folklore, from a variety of spiritual traditions. Texts are presented in English translation and, where possible, in the original language.

Monastic Matrix
A scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400-1600, which includes primary and secondary sources.

Papal Encyclicals Online
A collection of encyclicals in English translation, which is relatively comprehensive for 1831-present and contains selected encyclicals issued by previous popes. Browse by Pope or search by keyword.

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