Humanities
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Links to important humanities sites on the World Wide Web, including electronic text collections, historical materials, and more.
Library of Congress
Links to a wide variety of information, documents, and research tools. Sections
of interest may include:
American Memory
and African
American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection
Making of America Project
From the University of Michigan, this resource includes approximately 650,000 pages
of books and journals from the latter part of the 19th century, documenting the
social history of America.
Science in the Nineteenth-Century
Periodical
From the Humanties Research Institute of the University of Sheffield, SCIPER provides
a synopsis of material related to science, technology and medicine appearing in
sixteen general interest periodicals published in Britain between in the 19th Century.
This resource provides a fascinating look at the popular view of science and new
technologies in the 19th Century.
History of Race in Science
"RaceSci is for scholars and students concerned with the critical examination of
'race' in science, medicine, and technology. It tracks contemporary racial science,
provides a bibliography of scholarship, collects syllabi, and serves as a portal
to digital archives and other resources."
Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
This evolving resource for Philosophy and the History of Science adheres to the
highest academic standards and is constantly adapting to new research in the field.
Each entry in the SEP is maintained by experts in the field and substantive updates
are refereed by the members of an Editorial Board before they are made public. You
can cite fixed editions that are created on a quarterly basis and stored in the
Archives (every entry contains a link to its complete archival history, identifying
the fixed edition the reader should cite). The Table of Contents lists entries that
are published or assigned. The Projected Table of Contents also lists entries which
are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected.
PhilSci Archive
The PhilSci Archive presents non-peer reviewed preprints related to the philosophy
of science. This electronic archive was developed by the Philosophy of Science Association
and the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Like all
preprint electronic archives, it was created to promote communication in the field
by the rapid dissemination of new work.
LabLit.com: The Culture of Science
in Fiction & Fact
"LabLit.com is dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions
of that culture - science, scientists and labs - in fiction, the media and across
popular culture." The site contains essays about lab culture and lab-based fiction,
but also original science-related short fiction, serialized novels and poetry -
LabLit as a literary genre.
The Cambridge History
of English and American Literature
This is the electronic version of the classic 18 volume work The Cambridge History
of English and American Literature.
