Humanities Metasites, Portals & Gateways

• Age of King Charles V (1338-1380), The - A digital library with 1,000 manuscript illuminations.



• allmovie - Can search, browse reviews & ratings of music, films, videos, DVDs, games. Has biographies, filmographies, etc..



• allmusic - A comprehensive database with ratings & reviews of over 834,000 albums. Covers rock, folk, jazz, reggae, blues, country, rap, cajun, vocal, rap, classical, etc..



• American Authors on the Web - A guide to Web sites in 2 sections. The first is an listing of general resources; the second is a chronological listing of authors by date of birth. Sites may contain criticism, biography, or texts. Hundreds of authors are included.



• American Cultural History: The 19th Century - A decade-by-decade tour. Covers art & architecture, books & literature, fads & fashion, education, historic events & technology, music, persons & personalities, theater & film.



• American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century - A decade-by-decade tour. Covers art & architecture, books & literature, fads & fashion, education, historic events & technology, music, persons & personalities, theater & film.



• American Memory - Library of Congress, The multimedia gateway. Can search, browse over 9 million items from 100 primary source collections on U.S. history & culture. Includes historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books, pamphlets, maps, etc.. Covers 18 broad subject areas (advertising; African American history; architecture; landscape; cities, towns; culture, folklife; environment, conservation; government, law; immigration, American expansion; literature; maps; Native American history; performing arts, music; Presidents; religion; sports, recreation; technology, industry; war, military; women's history).



• American Rhetoric (AR) - Has over 5,000 full-text, audio & video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, etc.. Includes Top 100 Speeches, movie speeches, rhetoric of 9/11, etc..



• Andante - Has news, performance reviews, resources, event calendars, Webcasts, recordings, link directories on classical music, a site search..



• Art Guide - Has information on over 1,900 artists, 650 museums, 4,500 exhibitions in Britain & Ireland; maps, a forum, site search.



• Artchive, The - A digital gallery with 2,000 scans from & biographies of 200 artists (1400s to late 1900s), Glyphs art reviews, art theory & criticism, juxtapositions (verbal & visual commentaries), links, etc..



• artnet - Has 13,000 member artist galleries, a research library (over 16,000 biographies [15,000 from The Grove Dictionary of Art], 130 articles on materials & techniques, 1,000 styles & movements), etc., a site search.



• artnetweb - A virtual library on the arts & artists. Has information, links, thumbnails, etc., on people & projects (institutions, organizations) involved in new media in the practice of art. Resources include links to texts, organizations, exhibits, tools, etc..



• ArtServe: Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan and now India - A comprehensive virtual library with 19,000 images searchable by country, subject, survey, etc..



• AsiaSource - A comprehensive site with timely, reliable, unbiased information & assistance on the cultural, economic, social, historical, political dimensions of Asia. Has country comparisons, embassies, a glossary, etc..



• AskART - Can search, browse information on 30,000 American artists. Has directories (museums, dealers, auction houses, associations, etc.), a glossary, etc..



• Avalon Project at the Yale Law School, The - Can search, browse, compare eversions of important U.S. historical primary documents relevant to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, government. Includes The Federalist Papers, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Palestine 1916 to the present, Relations between The United States and Native Americans, etc..



• BitLaw - A comprehensive site with over 1,800 pages on technology law (patent, copyright, trademark, Internet).



• Blake Digital Text Project - Has a concordance, downloadable (ascii) poetry & prose, Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Everlasting Gospel Hypertext.



• Blake Multimedia Project, The - Has downloadable (html) eds. of illuminated books, glossaries, interpretations, explications, comparisons, teaching modules.



• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 - An electronic collection of texts from the University of California, Davis. Includes Irish writers.



• Canada's Digital Collections - Has 600 collections on Canada's history, geography, science, technology, culture. Includes Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People; Toronto's First Synagogues; etc..



• Canadian Literature Archive, The - A virtual library with links (novelists, poets, etc.), live readings, etexts, a picture gallery, bibliographies, resource links (organizations, etc.), a site search.



• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature site - Has book reviews, lesson plans, activities, an enewsletter, site search.



• CARRIE: A Full-Text Electronic Library - Includes AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History; EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe; Repositories of Primary Sources; The World War I Document Archive; etc..



• Castles on the Web - Has a photo archive; castle tours worldwide; palaces & great homes; abbeys & churches; a glossary with 250 definitions; links on heraldry, medieval studies, etc.; etc..



• Center for History and New Media (CHNM) - Includes tools (Syllabus Finder, etc.), resources (History Matters, Echo Research Center, guide to 1,200 history departments worldwide, etc.), projects (DoHistory, Interpreting the Declaration of Independence by Translation, The September 11 Digital Archive; etc.).



• Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature - Includes DDM-Online (Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online), Texts on Music in English from the Medieval and Early Modern Eras, the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML), etc..



• CHILDE Database (Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe) - Can search book illustrations, most published before 1890.



• Classical Net - Has 4,000 CD/DVD/book reviews, 6,000 files (genres, singers, etc.), over 5,300 links (composers, musicians, ensembles & orchestras, audio/video, etc.).



• Classics Pages, The - A comprehensive site with 1,000 pages of news, information, etc., on the social history, literature, art & archaeology, etc., of the ancient Greece & Rome.



• ColeccionCisneros.org - Has colonial Latin American art, international decorative arts, 17th to early 20th century Latin American landscapes, 28 artist biographies, etc..



• Complete Works of William Shakespeare, The - Has all comedies, histories, tragedies.



• Contemporary Literary Theory - Has essays on literary criticism, literary theory, theory itself; on structuralism, reader-response theory, poststructuralism; contemporary theory; etc..



• Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English - Has brief biographies, opinion pieces, critical essays, images, bibliographies, etc., on 60 authors; a site search.



• Copyright Website - Portal. Has practical & application information. Covers audio & visual encroachment (streaming, mpeg, mpg), Internet issues.



• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) - Can search catalog records (with images, transliterations) of tablets from 3200 BC through the 3rd millennium. Includes text glossaries, etc..



• Dickinson Electronic Archives - Has writings by the family (Emily restricted); responses to her writing; resources (biographical & critical, bibliography, links, etc.); a site search.



• Digital History - Has an online textbook, primary sources, multimedia, timeline, reference room, teacher resources, etc..



• Digital Imaging Project - Has over 10,000 images of European & North American architecture & sculpture, Classical Greece to late 20th century.



• Digital Scriptorium - Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE. A digital library of 1,000 images & catalog records of medieval & renaissance manuscripts.



• Diotima - Has material on women & gender in the ancient world (anthology, essays, images, courses & teaching materials, Diotima's Bibliography, etc.



• Documenting the American South (DAS) - Can search over 900 primary documents (etexts & manuscripts) on history, literature, culture, colonial to early 20th century. Includes First-Person Narratives of the American South, Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Southern Homefront 1861-1865.



• Douglass - Has over 100 historical American speeches & related documents. Has links to off-site resources.



• Electronic Text Center - A library & digital archive. Can search, browse 10,000 public domain etexts in 12 languages & 164,000 images. Covers history, literature, philosophy, religion. Includes Ebooks, Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities; Modern English Collection, The; Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture, etc.. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to selected individual ebooks.



• Electronic Text Centre - A Canadian virtual library & digital archive. Can search, browse collections on Canada's history & literature.



• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature - Can browse links to etext collections in 17 western European languages.



• Elfwood - Has over 20,000 works of fantasy & sci-fi art, fiction, how-to guides by 1,500 artists & writers.



• EPC (Electronic Poetry Center) - A digital library with links to author homepages, academic material, 140 emagazines (not all free); locally mounted audio art, radio broadcasts, etc.. Has a site search.



• eserver.org - A virtual library of over 35,200 texts on the arts, humanities, social sciences. Can search, browse collections with over 31,600 ebooks & articles.



• Ever The Twain Shall Meet: Mark Twain on the Web - Has downloadable (zip) editions of Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Connecticut Yankee, Tom Sawyer, etc..



• Everything Shakespeare - Has complete works (comedy, history, tragedy, poetry), summaries, essays, history, links, message board.



• Exploring Ancient World Cultures - Has chronologies, essays, images, etexts, etc., on ancient & medieval worlds.



• FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) - Can search, browse criticism of media performance back to 1986.



• Famous Artworks exhibition - ibiblio. A comprehensive virtual library with an index to images of famous paintings. Themes include gothic, Italian renaissance, northern renaissance, baroque, revolution & restoration, impressionism, 20th century, Japanese art & architecture.



• Feminist Theory Website - Has over 5,400 citations of books & journal articles, 590 links, 90 biographies, 840 pages of information on over 30 topics (aesthetics & art, anthropology, communication & media, economics, education, history, literary criticism & theory, philosophy, political theory, psychology/psychoanalysis, etc.).



• First Amendment Center - Has research coverage of issues & topics, a First Amendment Library (court case search, etc.), analyses by legal specialists, a glossary, etc., a site search.



• Five College Archives Digital Access Project - Gateway. Can search, browse 54 online collections of over 38,000 items on women's history.



• From Revolution to Reconstruction - Has over 3,000 documents (primary sources, transcripts), essays, over 200 biographies; presidential speeches, writings.



• Furness Shakespeare Library - Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI). Can search, browse, compare text. Requires Macromedia Flash 5 plug-in.



• Gallery of the Open Frontier - An image library (photos, paintings, drawings) of the American West.



• Galleryguide.com - A comprehensive source of gallery & museum exhibitions, searchable by artist, location, exhibition. Includes artist portfolios.



• Gender Inn - Can search over 8,300 citations of books & essay collections on feminist theory & literary criticism in British & American literature. Has links, bibliographies.



• Great Buildings Collection, The - A gateway to archicture. Has photos, drawings, 3D walkthrough models with articles, 380 biographies of architects, bibliographies of 800 structures, a site search.



• Greek Mythology Link (GML) - A comprehensive guide to Greek myths. Has 200 character & group biographies, information on places & people, dictionaries, images, ebooks, a site search.



• GreekMythology.com - A comprehensive collection of Greek mythology. Includes stories of the gods, heroes, creatures, places, the Titans. Has links to Homer's Odyssey, Bulfinch's Mythology.



• Himalayan Art Resources - Has 16,200 images of paintings, sculpture, textiles; a glossary; bibliography; links in 24 categories; site search.



• Historical Text Archive (HTA) - A virtual library with over 680 articles, 60 ebooks, 5,600 links, documents, photos.



• History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL) - Can search, browse 100 politically significant audio materials, mostly from the 1960s & 1970s.



• History Matters - Center for History and New Media (CHNM). The U.S. survey course on the Web. A gateway for high school & college students & teachers. Has over 1,000 primary documents, images, interviews. Covers how historians approach documents. Includes WWW.History, teaching assignmens Reference Desk, forums, syllabi, student work, teaching strategies & techniques, puzzles.



• HyperHistory Online - Has over 2,000 interconnected files (3,000 years of world history) with graphics, lifelines, timelines, maps, an 80 chapter etext.



• Hyperizons - Can search hypertext fiction. Has lists of primary & secondary sources, links to theory & criticism, bibliographies, etc..



• iAbolish - The anti-slavery portal with an overview of slavery (forced labor, involuntary servitude, debt bondage, forced prostitution, chattel slavery) in the world today; news, interviews, videos, audios, links to articles in the press; Congressional testimony, international governmental & non-governmental organization reports; information on abolitionist activism.



• IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) - Can search information (people, facts, statistics) on productions back to the beginnings of New York theatre.



• Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website - Has articles, excerpts, chapters from contemporary writers (T.Adorno, H.Marcuse, W.Benjamin, etc.).



• IMDb (Internet Movie Database) - Can search, browse reviews & ratings of movies, TV, news, DVDs, video, etc.. Has biographies, filmographies, etc..



• In the First Person - Includes 3,350 personal narrative collections in English worldwide, over 650,000 pages of full-text by over 15,000 people, 3,500 audio & video files & 30,000 bibliographic records, 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, 17,000 oral history entries.



• Internet ArtResources (IAR) - A gateway to over 5,100 galleries & private dealers, 3,760 artists, 1,230 museums, 7,620 images worldwide.



• Internet Shakespeare Editions - Has edited, peer-reviewed etexts of plays & poems; critical guide to 1660-1960 commentary; essays; a discussion list; links; etc..



• Iowa State University Play Concordances - Has searchable concordances of 10 works by B. Shaw, A. Miller, H. Ibsen, O. Wilde, etc..



• Jack London Collection Online, The - Searchable database of London's writings (full texts of four novels [Call of the Wild, The Iron Heel, The Sea Wolf, White Fang], the non-fiction The People of the Abyss, 15 collections of short stories), selected correspondence, images, criticism, essays, a glossary, annotated bibliography of London biographies.



• Jane Austen Information Page - Has 6 works (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, etc.), a biography, bibliography, site search.



• John Lye's Course and Source Page - Has links (general; English; communications, popular culture, media; literary theory) & information (literary theory, literature, communications, structuralism, reader-response, critical theories, etc.).



• Kafka Project, The - Has 10 etexts in German in the form of the manuscripts, critical essays & articles, links, etc., a site search.



• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection - Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI). Can search, browse late medieval & early modern manuscripts. Requires Macromedia Flash 5 plug-in.



• Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music , The - Can search, browse over 29,000 images. Focus is popular American music from 1780-1960.



• Literary Gothic, The - Can browse over 60 etexts. Has links to overviews, directories, collections, essays, publishers, timelines, discussion lists, etc..



• Literary Prizes & Book Awards - Has information on over 40 international adult & children’s literature prizes.



• LiteratureClassics.com - Has over 260 biographies, essays, links (criticism, etc.) on hundreds of authors, 9,000 quotes of ancient to early 20th century authors, etc..



• Luminarium - Can search an anthology of medieval, renaissance, 17th century works. Has scholarly essays & articles, dissertations, etc., links.



• Making of America (MOA) - Can search, browse primary sources (Making of America Books & Making of America Journals on social history, antebellum to reconstruction.



• Malaspina Great Books - A comprehensive database covering figures in literature & philosophy, science, art, music, theatre, cinema, history, religion, women, minorities. Has links to author home pages, etexts, lectures, etc..



• Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute - Has most of The Autobiography & The Papers, speeches, sermons, a biography, chronology, staff articles, links.



• Mexican Migration Project (MMP) - Has a downloadable (compressed ASCII) database (Mexican & U.S. survey data), oral histories, folk art exhibit, links. Focus is social & economic.



• Mississippi Writers Page, The - Covers literary landmarks & history, etc.. Can search, browse 300 authors (70 with photo, biography, links, etc.), mostly modern.



• MRQE (Movie Review Query Engine) - Can search reviews of over 64,000 movies, view precomputed lists of review lists.



• Mutopia - Can search, browse, download over 750 pieces of music.



• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) - Has Foundation information (projects, how to apply for a grant, anagement grants, etc.); a site search. Includes &/or sponsors EDSITEment.



• National Gallery of Art (NGA) - Has Gallery information, virtual exhibitions, online tours. Can search images of 4,700 & text/data on 100,000 objects. Links to Index of American Design with 18,000 watercolors from the colonial period through the 19th century (1935-42)..



• Native American Documents Project - Has published reports (1871-76) & 1875 map, allotment data, Rogue River War & Siletz Reservation Documents, California Tribes data.



• net.TUTOR - Has 15 interactive tutorials (Citing Net Sources, Evaluating Web Sites, Using Web Search Tools, etc.), resource guides (business, education, health, humanities, math & science, social sciences, etc.), etc..



• New York State Archives - New York State Education Department (NYSED). Has a gateway to online collections & exhibits. Can search the Excelsior library catalog.



• Nolo - Has legal information on business & human resources; patents, copyright, art; wills & estate planning; property & money; family law & mmigration; rights & disputes.



• Nuclear Weapon Archive, The - A comprehensive resource with information about nuclear energy & weapons. Has documents & reports about atomic bombs, nuclear testing, the Nevada test site, stories from survivors of Nagasaki & Hiroshima, a glossary, images of nuclear detonations, links.



• Omniglot - A guide to written language. Has information on alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, undeciphered, alternative writing systems & languages; a site search. Includes Braille & Moon.



• Operabase - A virtual library with news & reviews, performance data on 400 opera houses worldwide, maps, links, etc.. Can search recordings, performances & artists back to 1999.



• ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies - Has an encyclopedia of peer-reviewed articles, libraries & reference (primary & secondary sources, etexts), teaching resources. Links to Internet Medieval Sourcebook; Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies, The; NetSERF; etc..



• Our Documents - Has 100 milestone acts, treaties, Supreme Court decisions, constitutional documents, presidential speeches, resolutions, executive orders, etc., from 1776-1965.



• OzLi@Vicnet - Has over 500 pages of Australian literary information, a book & writers database of over 1,100 links in 15 categories.



• PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - A companion to over 450 TV news, programs, specials. Has 135,000 pages, real-time learning adventures, biographies, etc., a site search.



• Philosophy Pages - Can download (zip) site with a dictionary with over 500 definitions, a Western history survey, timeline, 39 short biographies, logic summary, study guide, links.



• Poe Webliography: Edgar Allan Poe on the Internet, A - Includes Web & cd-rom resources (etexts, html texts, hypertexts, secondary works, commentaries, indexes).



• Poets' Corner - Can search, browse over 6,700 works by over 780 poets.



• Pragmatism Cybrary, The - Has a history & genealogies, 40 biographies, links (societies, schools, discussion lists, etc.), bibliographies, a site search.



• Project Ben-Yehuda - Has poems & prose from classic Hebrew literature.



• Public History Resource Center (PHRC) - Has a definition of public history; essay on an aspect of its history; descriptions of degree programs & careers in the field; criteria for evaluating Web sites; reviews of sites.



• Radio-Locator - Was MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet. Can search over 10,000 radio station Web pages & 2,500 audio streams from radio stations worldwide.



• Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz Before 1930, The - Has over 1,000 streaming audio recordings, information on bands & artists, essays, etc., a site search.



• Representative Poetry On-Line - Can search, browse 2,500 English language poems by 400 poets back to Old English. Has a timeline, glossary with 350 definitions, criticism, bibliography, etc..



• Robin Hood Project, The - Can search texts, images, bibliographies (general, literature, films).



• Romantic Chronology - Has information on events & topics (Anglo-Jewish history, etc.), links (authors, etexts, images, articles, primary material, syllabi, etc.).



• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library (NYPL), The. Has Center information, online exhibitions (African American Women Writers of the 19th Century; Images of African Americans in the 19th Century; In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience; etc..



• ScreenSite - Has resources on film, TV, new media for college educators & students. Includes syllabi, a link directory, articles, etc.. Covers production.



• Search Engine Guide - Has links to over 3,200 tools (search engines, subject directories, databases [company, education, government, health & medicine, law, science, etc.]), news back to 1999, a vendor directory, etc., Web search.



• Shakespeare in Quarto - Can print & compare the British Library’s 93 copies of 21 plays printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642.



• Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871, The - Can search, browse over 1,200 photos & images.



• Small Anthology of Poems, A - Includes works with text & commentary.



• Sonnet Central - An archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures, audio, links.



• Sparknotes - Has over 300 study guides in 15 categories (literature, history, philosophy, etc.), charts (math, science, etc.), etc., a site search.



• Spy Letters of the American Revolution - Has a gallery of letters; stories about spies; secret methods & techniques of letter writing (code, invisible ink, mask letters); etc..



• Surfing with the Bard - Has 13 plays, portals for students (tutorials, etc.) & teachers (over 40 lesson plans, etc.),



• SWIRL - An introduction to critical theory (theoretical paradigms, main issues, timelines, major theorists, controversies).



• Talking History - Can search, browse audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries & archival sources.



• Tangled Roots - An archive of 17th century primary documents on perceptions of Irish immigrants & African American slaves.



• Television News Archive - Can search abstracts of 30,000 broadcasts & 9,000 hours of special programming (Nightlines since 1989), order text for a fee.



• UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) - Can search teaching & learning materials for over 100 Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs).



• University of Pennsylvania Art Collection - Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI). Can search, browse 5,700 objects & artifacts. Requires Macromedia Flash 5 plug-in.



• Varo Registry of Women Artists, The - Has a contemporary international registry of work by over 80 artists (images, etc.), a library (bibliography with over 100 citations of books & a few journal articles, etc.), etc..



• Vietnam Project, The - Has information on The Vietnam Center, Virtual Vietnam Archive, The, oral histories, etc., a site search.



• Vindolanda Tablets Online - Can search, browse writing tables (the texts, English translations, commentaries, images) from the Roman fort in northern England.



• Virginia Tech Imagebase - Can search, browse over 30,000 images (photos & negatives). Includes 5,700 art & art history slides, the Civil War collection, etc..



• Voices from the Gaps - Has biographical information, criticism, lists of works of over 100 African-American women authors, a listserv, etc..



• Walt Whitman Archive, The - Has manuscript images, published works, bibliographies, criticism, photos, links, a site search.



• Wars for Viet Nam, The - Has an overview, 20 primary documents (Geneva Accords, excerpts from Law 10/59, etc.), 50 links.



• Web Concordances and Workbooks, The - Covers works by P.B. Shelley, S.T. Coleridge, J. Keats, W. Blake, Wordsworth & Coleridge, G.M. Hopkins.



• Web Gallery of Art - Can search over 13,500 images of European painting & sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Has commentaries, guided tours, etc..



• Willa Cather Electronic Archive, The - Has her works (short fiction, non-fiction, etc.), a photo gallery, resources (links, tours). Covers her life & scholarship (critical studies, etc.).



• William Blake Archive, The - Library of Congress, The. Searchable & scalable electronic editions of 48 copies of 18 of Blake's 19 illuminated works in the context of full, up-to-date bibliographic information about each image, scrupulous diplomatic transcriptions of all texts, detailed descriptions of all images, 500 extensive bibliographies.



• Window, The - Has a timeline linked to biographies of 60 philosophers, links to research resources & over 100,000 etexts, etc..



• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1820-1940 - Has 2,000 primary documents, a teacher's corner (lesson plans, some for a fee), 50 links, a site search.



• works of the Bard, The - Has downloadable (html) comedies, tragedies, histories, poetry; some links; a search tool for the text of the plays & poetry.



• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) - Has Organization & intellectual property information (patents, trademarks, copyright, etc.), news & resources (Intellectual Property Digital Library, etc.), activities & services.