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Geography of Slavery in Virginia - digital collection of court records, slaveholders records and newspaper advertisements for runaway slaves
An African-American Community in the Jim Crow South. University of Virginia. Digital collection of census records, newspaper accounts, oral histories, maps, city records, and images; searchable census database
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html - digital collection of 52 works by African American women writers of the 19th century. Includes biographical entries. Keyword-searchable database
A Celebration of Women Writers. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, editor. Database searchable by author's name, country, ethnicity, period. Categories for browsing include name index, century, country and ethnicity. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
The Literature Network. Database of authors; biographical information and complete texts for selected works. http://www.online-literature.com/Perseus Digital Library. Tufts University et al. Database of Greek and Roman texts in Latin and Greek as well as English translations. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Project Bartleby. Columbia University. Searchable online databases, including dictionaries, Roget's Thesaurus, several quotations dictionaries, the King James Bible, the Oxford Shakespeare, Bullfinch's Mythology and other reference works; selected fiction works by authors such as Herman Melville, H.G. Wells and many more. Large database of digitized poems; categories include General, British, American, and specific authors. Large database of digitized works of nonfiction, including essays by an extensive range of philosophers and other writers. Works also organized by topics such as Ghost Stories or War Poetry. http://www.bartleby.com/Project Gutenberg. Large database of electronic books available for free viewing and printing. Only works in the public domain are included. http://promo.net/pg/
New York Times Book Review. Includes current books reviews and a searchable database of reviews back to 1996. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html
Best Information on the Net (St. Ambrose University)
Criticism and Interpretation (Kentucky Virtual Library)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
American Academy of Poets. "The Academy of American Poets, a non-profit organization founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry." Database of poems and poets; discussion forums, events and news. Literary Links provides an extensive list of links to sites dealing with individual poets; these contain poems, criticism, interviews, biographies and more. http://www.poets.org.
EdSelect - Poets and Poetry. List of links to sites providing resources for teachers of poetry. http://www.edselect.com/poetsand.htm
Best Information on the Net - this site lives up to its' name. Prepared by the librarians at St. Ambrose University, it contains a number of important pages. The most helpful sites for those preparing to write papers would be Hot Paper Topics (a list of current issues often chosen by students writing argument papers,) and Help for Writing Papers (located under the Student Resources link on the main page.)