RESOURCES

The following is a list of online collections of primary and secondary sources having to do with American literature, culture, and history from 1789 to 1900 as it pertains to this class. You are encouraged to draw your classmates’ attention to interesting finds on the blog.

• American History Online: A project of the Andrew W. Mellon foundation and the University of Illinois, American History Online provides scholars with access to distributed historical digital library collections. Find primary materials, including images, texts, documents, cultural objects, etc.
• The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Digital History: An interactive, multimedia history of the United States from the Revolution to the present.
• Documenting the American South: A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
• Emily Dickinson Complete Poems
• Kate Chopin.org: This site includes information about Chopin’s stories, links to trustworthy online versions of Chopin’s works, bibliographies, news about publications and conference panels on Chopin, and a Frequently Asked Questions feature.
• 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.
• Mark Twain in His Times: This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how “Mark Twain” and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship): NINES is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. A number of projects have been built using their software system, including:
• The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive: The goal of The Charles Chesnutt Archive is to make works by and about Chesnutt readily and freely accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.
• Dickinson Electronic Archives: A website devoted to the study of Emily Dickinson, her writing practices, writings directly influencing her work, and critical and creative writings generated by her work. The DEA is produced by the Dickinson Editing Collective.
• Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: This XML-based archive brings together seventy-four poems and letters from Emily’s correspondence with her sister-in-law and primary confidante, Susan Dickinson. Each text is presented with a digitized scan of the holograph manuscript.
• The Walt Whitman Archive: An electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman’s vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.
• Walt Whitman Notebooks: This collection offers access to the four Walt Whitman Notebooks and a cardboard butterfly that disappeared from the Library of Congress in 1942. They were returned on February 24, 1995.