Humanities

"This collection brings together pre-Pulp era tales initially depicting scenes early America, the Frontier, and the West. Ranging roughly from 1860 to 1930 these often serial publications record the attitudes prevailing of 19th and early 20th Century society: including racist, sexist, and ethnic stereotypes. The original works are often highly fragile and digitization is a slow and careful endeavor. This collection includes the precursors to "Dime Novels", known as the "Story Papers", which were often of larger format, as well as the United Kingdom versions, "Penny Dreadfuls". Also included in this collection are Mass Market Literature - containing non-fiction texts, some of which are manifested as textual series - in a variety of subjects - including "self-help" and "how-to" titles, and medical cures. Also included are international Dime Novels - both translations of English originals as well as native creations."

"Emily Dickinson Archive makes high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscripts held in multiple libraries and archives."

Video recordings of Americans reading poems they love. The poems are both canonical and non-English, read in original language and translation.

This resource includes literary criticism for a selection of 19th and 20th century writers.

"The Shelley-Godwin Archive will provide the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers."

"The Victorian Women Writers Project (VWWP) [...] is primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The collection represents an array of genres - poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more. VWWP contains scores of authors, both prolific and rare."

Provides access to over 2,000,000 descriptions of archival materials from archives, libraries, museums and historical societies from around the world.

The Cold War International History Project disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist world.

This core collection consists of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Subjects covered include agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science.

Western European Primary Source Documents from Brigham Young University.

Provides access to the Library of Congress's digitized American history materials, including manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music.

A digital library of primary sources in U.S. social history (1850-1877), the Making of America was a collaborative project created by Cornell University and the University of Michigan. Their collections of source materials are different.

The mission of the non-profit organization that publishes this is to engage people with cultural heritage and to improve history education worldwide.

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