Humanities: General

Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research  

The pre-eminent site for Humanities research

• The Academy of American Poets poets.org
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century 
• American Authors A good resource for undergraduate non-majors
• American Authors on the Web a good overall list
• American Film Scripts Online 
  Alexander Street; access restricted to current UTPB students and faculty
• American Verse Project
• The Black Renaissance in Washington, D.C.: 1920s-1930s  
• The Carson McCullers Project information on McCullers is not available on the web to any great extent; this site is the best, but needs to be used with caution
• Celebration of Women Writers
• The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson 
• Contemporary American Poetry Archive an electronic archive designed to make [a selection of] out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers.
• The Edith Wharton Society
• Emily Dickinson Electronic Archive 
• Emily Dickinson International Society   Provides links to other Dickinson web sites.
• Emily Dickinson poems  at Bartleby.com
• Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction
• Faulkner Resources Online
• Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia l a large collection of bibliographies and checklists--recommended reading lists, author indexes, critical works, Web sites--related to feminist science fiction and fantasy; a wealth of information on this specialized but popular topic
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Centennial Celebration Web
• Emma Goldman Papers
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project primarily 17th-19th century
• Hemingway Resource Page
• Jack London Collection
• Library of Southern Literature    U of North Carolina
• The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s 
• LION: Literature Online  Primarily British, some American
• Melville  from the Internet Public Library Literary Criticism section
• Merrycoz.org: Works For Children & Adults, 1800-1872  The site offers transcriptions and images from a variety of 19th-century children's books and magazines; Dr. Pat Pflieger (English, Univ. of Pennsylvania) the sites author argues that children's books and magazines from this period are important because they are what 19th-century American citizens, voters, and politicians read in their most impressionable years. This site offers far more commentary and contextual information about these publications than the similar areas on Project Gutenberg or the International Children's Digital Library.
• The Mississippi Writer's Page  
  Eudora Welty, William Faulkner
• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature  
• The Poetess Tradition: British & American, 1750-1900
• Representative Poetry Online
• Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
• Toni Morrison
• Twentieth Century Poetry in English
• Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive 
• Victorian Women Writers Project
• The Walt Whitman Archive
• The Willa Cather Electronic Archive  
  one reviewer described it as a "splendid archive!"; the site is by far the most careful and complete guide to Cather; organized and sponsored by the University of Nebraska; the site covers all important aspects of Cather research
• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries U. Wisconsin   
• Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 
  Indiana UP; a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography AmericanFiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes
• The Zora Neale Hurston Plays