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HUMANITIES ONLINE
New Hampshire State Library
Carolyn White
May 18, 2006
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General Humanities Resources Film
Anthropology History
Art & Architecture Language and Literature
Classics and Mythology Music and Dance
Drama and Theater Philosophy
 
 

General Humanities Resources

Electronic Text Center via the University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html
Provides full-text access to thousands of humanities texts in twelve languages; also contains images from such sources as newspapers, rare books, and manuscripts.

The Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
A digital library providing access to a variety of primary and secondary humanities resources, from ancient Greece to Renaissance England to the American West.

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
An academic mega-site with links to online research and resources from all of the humanities disciplines.
 
 

Anthropology

 
Anthromorphemics
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/glossary/index2.html
An online dictionary of anthropological and archaeological terms.

Anthropology Biography Web
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/
Provides brief biographies of individuals who have made a mark in the field of anthropology.

Native Web
http://www.nativeweb.org/
"Resources for indigenous cultures around the world."

Resources in Ethnographic Studies via the Library of Congress
http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/other.html
"A collection of resources in anthropology, ethnomusicology, folklore, and folklife."

WWW Virtual Library: Anthropology
http://vlib.anthrotech.com/
Annotated listings of anthropology resources online.

 
Art & Architecture

 
Art History
 
Art History Resources on the Web
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
A comprehensive collection of sites covering world art from prehistoric times to the present; includes links to online image archives.

Art on the Web via Boston College
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/Artweb.html
Another art mega-site with copious links to art webpages the world over; also has links to curriculum guides and sites concerned with art education.

ArtSource
http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/welcome.html
A list of online art resources compiled by an art librarian for use by librarians.

WebMuseum
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/
An online encyclopedia of art: provides biographies of artists, descriptions of artistic movements, and images of works of art.

 
Architecture
 
Digital Imaging Project
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/
"Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern."
 
The Great Buildings Collection
http://www.greatbuildings.com/
"This gateway to architecture from around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds."
 
Images
 
Digital Imaging Project
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/
"Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern."

WebMuseum
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/
An online encyclopedia of art: provides biographies of artists, descriptions of artistic movements, and images of works of art.

WebSeek via Columbia University
http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/webseek/
"A content-based image and video search and catalog tool for the Web."

 
Museums
 
The Louvre Museum
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp?bmLocale=en
Official site of Paris’ world-famous museum; includes a history of the museum, a virtual tour, and selected images from the collections.
 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/
Site of New York’s Met: features include a timeline of art history, a virtual reality tour of the museum, and selected images.

Musee-Online
http://www.musee-online.org/home.asp
"An interactive directory to museums’ collections including art, science, history, zoos, archaeology, and aquariums, etc., providing links to their educational, entertainment, archive, and shopping features."

The National Portrait Gallery
http://www.npg.si.edu/
This Washington D.C. museum is closed to the public until 2006, but you can view selections from its collection online.

World Wide Art Resources
http://wwar.com/categories/Museums/
Links to museums, online collections, and teacher resources.

 
Photography
 
National Geographic Photography Guide
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/
This site provides images from the pages of National Geographic, biographies of and interviews with photographers, information about exhibitions, and links to photography-related sites.

 

Classics and Mythology

 
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
http://www.roman-emperors.org/
This site provides detailed biographical information about the emperors of Rome, from Augustus to Constantine.

Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
http://www.stoa.org/diotima
"Diotima serves as an interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient world."

Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~tlg/index/resources.html
A comprehensive, annotated collection of classics resources, this site provides researchers with links to electronic publications, images, academic departments, educational resources (including K-12), and more.

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html
Provides "access to primary source texts for educational purposes." Also has links to images and audio clips.

Internet Classics Archive via MIT
http://classics.mit.edu/
An archive of classical texts in translation; although most are from the Greek and Roman world, the site does include translations of some ancient Chinese and Persian texts.


Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
A digital library providing access to a variety of primary and secondary humanities resources, from ancient Greece to Renaissance England to the American West.

 
Drama and Theater

 
Theater Guides

Broadway.com
http://www.broadway.com/
"The" site for Broadway shows, with details about current performances, ticket information, etc.
London Theatre Guide
http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/
An online guide to London's West End theater scene.

Theater Resources
The Costume Page
http://users.aol.com/nebula5/costume.html
Links to costume-related sites on the WWW, including academic & theatrical sites, museums, and events.
Internet Broadway Database
http://www.ibdb.com/
"IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information."
WWW Virtual Library for Theater and Drama
http://vl-theatre.com/list0.shtml
A comprehensive site for theater students, scholars, and professionals, including links to online journals and plays, academic departments, and professional conferences.


Theater Companies and Festivals
Edinburgh International Festival
http://www.eif.co.uk/
Official site of the renowned theater festival, held yearly in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Festival Fringe (Edinburgh)
http://www.edfringe.com/index.html?r_menu=global&static=true
As famous as the Edinburgh Festival is the concurrent Fringe Festival, a huge arts event featuring plays, performance art, comedy, and music. 

The National Theatre On-line (Britain)
http://www.nt-online.org/home.html
Information on the current season of Britain's prestigious Royal National Theater, including performances, ticket availability, and backstage workshops and events.

National Theatre Society, Ireland
http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/
Site of  Ireland's National Theatre Society, housed in Dublin's famed Abbey and Peacock Theatres.  The Society's homepage features performance and ticket information, a history of the Abbey Theatre, and more.

Royal Shakespeare Company (Britain)
http://www.rsc.org.uk/home/default.aspx
The website of one of the most famous theater companies in the world; includes information on the current season's plays at the Company's sites in Stratford-upon-Avon, London, and Newcastle, as well as information about overseas tours.

Stratford Festival of Canada
http://www.stratford-festival.on.ca/
The official site of Canada's premier theater festival, which takes place annually in the town of Stratford, Ontario.


 

Film

 
All Movie Guide 
http://www.allmovie.com/
An online database of film information, searchable by title, person, and keyword. 

The American Film Institute (AFI)
http://www.afi.com/
Site of "the nation's preeminent arts organization dedicated to advancing and preserving the art of the moving image." Includes the AFI Top 100 lists.

Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/
The ultimate movie site: a searchable database of films, directors, and performers, with links to cast and crew information, actor biographies and filmographies, memorable lines, etc.

The British Film Institute (BFI)
http://www.bfi.org.uk/
Organization dedicated to the art of film and to promoting and preserving British films in particular.

Landmark Cinema Links Page
http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Links/Links.htm
Loads of links to film reviews & magazines, studios, guilds & organizations, cinemas, and local & international film festivals.

MRQE: Movie Review Query Engine
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup
A search engine for film reviews, this site locates reviews from a wide variety of print and online sources.

Rotten Tomatoes
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/
Online database of film reviews, famous for its "Tomatometer."
ScreenSite
http://www.screensite.org/
A site for academic and educational research in the area of film and television studies, designed for teachers and students of the medium of moving pictures.
 
 

History

 
General/World History


Historical Text Archive
http://historicaltextarchive.com/
E-texts, images, diaries, and other historical artifacts from around the world; arranged by place and topic.

Internet Global History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/global/globalsbook.html
"The Global History Sourcebook is dedicated to the interaction between world cultures."

Internet Modern History Sourcebook via Fordham University
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Primary materials in the area of European and American history, Western civilization, and world cultures.

 

American History
 
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/
Full-text historical documents from the 15th Century to the present.


American and British History Resources via Rutgers University
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml
Links to reference resources and primary documents.


American Memory via the Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
A rich archive of historical texts, personal narratives, photographs, films, and music from the nation's past.


Avalon Project via Yale University
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
"The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government."


Internet Modern History Sourcebook: American Independence
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html
Electronic texts of documents from the Revolutionary War period.


Internet Modern History Sourcebook: US Civil War
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook27.html
Primary source materials from the Civil War period.


The Making of America (MOA)
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
"The Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction."

 
European History
 
American and British History Resources via Rutgers University
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml
Links to reference resources and primary documents.


EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs
A very comprehensive list of primary historical sources from the Middle Ages to the present.


Internet Modern History Sourcebook via Fordham University
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Primary materials in the area of European and American history, Western civilization, and world cultures.



Literature

 
E-texts

American Verse Project via the University of Michigan Text Initiative
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
The Project is "an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920."

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
http://www.bartleby.com/
Provides full-text access to some of the world's greatest works of literature.

Electronic Text Center via the University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html
An archive with full-text access to thousands of humanities texts in twelve languages; also contains images from such sources as newspapers, rare books, and manuscripts.


The Online Books Page via the University of Pennsylvania
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Provides links to full-text books available free-of-charge over the Internet.  Also provides links to book-related forums and discussions.


Poets.org: The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/index.cfm
Biographies and photographs of hundreds of poets, as well as the texts of over a thousand poems and information about poetry awards & exhibitions.

Project Gutenberg
http://www.promo.net/pg/list.html
Easy access to e-text versions of the great books.

  
General Literature Research
 
Multicultural Resources for Children
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/multipub.htm
"[A] meta-site which brings together resources for teachers, librarians, parents, and students."

Online Literary Criticism Collection via the Internet Public Library (IPL)
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
"The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 4699 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period."

Poets.org: The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/index.cfm
Biographies and photographs of hundreds of poets, as well as the texts of over a thousand poems and information about poetry awards & exhibitions.
 

American Literature
 
African-American Writers: Online E-texts
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/afroonline.htm
Full-text works by African-American writers.

Literary Resources on the Net: American
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
An annotated collection of links to a wealth of websites about American literature, including full-text primary sources, background and historical information, critical analysis, and maps & images.
Victorian Studies on the Web
http://www.victoriandatabase.com/
A web guide to American and British Victorian literature and culture.

 
British Literature
 
British Poetry 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html
Provides free and easy access to scholarly editions of works of Romantic, Victorian, and early 20th-century British poetry.

Chaucer: An Annotated Guide to Online Resources
http://geoffreychaucer.org/
An annotated guide to Chaucer resources on the Web, including texts, histories, images, commentaries, and information on Chaucer's Middle English language.

Luminarium
http://www.luminarium.org/
A site which focuses on the study of Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th-century literature.

The Modern English Collection
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html
"This heterogenous collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts, and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest."

Sonnet Central
http://www.sonnets.org/
A site devoted to the art of the sonnet; includes the full text of English sonnets from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century.

Victorian Studies on the Web
http://www.victoriandatabase.com/
A web guide to American and British Victorian literature and culture.
 

Shakespeare
 
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare via MIT
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
The complete works of the Bard, full-text and online.

Internet Shakespeare Editions
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare
Contains annotated texts of Shakespeare's works, as well as information on Shakespeare's life, times, and language; worth a visit to see the graphic of Hamlet contemplating a mouse!

Jack Lynch’s Shakespeare Page
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ren.html
Links to information on Shakespeare, his works, his historical time period, his culture, and his contemporaries.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
Contains links to Shakespeare sites on the Web; also presents new and/or unique features, including a timeline, a genealogy, and links to Shakespeare festivals.

Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto (British Library)
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html
"On this site you will find the British Library's 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres closed in 1642."

 
World Languages and Literature
 
Eclat: The "Essential" Comparative Literature and Theory Site (via the University of Pennsylvania)
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/Eclat/
Links to e-journals, e-texts,  and academic departments worldwide.

Multicultural Resources for Children
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/multipub.htm
"[A] meta-site which brings together resources for teachers, librarians, parents, and students."

 
Online Literary Journals
The following sites are online journals in the area of literature and literary criticism; they are partially or entirely full-text.
Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate
http://www.connotations.de/


Early Modern Literary Studies
http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html


Keats-Shelley Journal
http://www.rc.umd.edu/ksaa/ksaa.html


Romanticism on the Net
http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
  


Music and Dance
Music
 
All-Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com/
An interactive, online encyclopedia of all styles of music, from classical to rock. Includes information about artists, composers, recordings, and musical styles.

Andante: Everything Classical
http://www.andante.com/
This site provides reviews, performance announcements, recordings, and more.


Argus Music Searcher
http://www.musicsearcher.com/
A music search engine that searches for band bios, lyrics, discographies, forums, and sound files.


Classical Music Resources
http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html
A collection of classical music links, including composer homepages, chronologies, and electronic journals.

Classical Net
http://www.classical.net/
"Classical Net features more than 3000 CD/DVD/Book reviews, as well as 6000 files and over 4000 links to other classical music web sites."

The Library of Congress Presents...Music, Theater, and Dance
http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/ihas/
"This Web site, formerly known as 'I Hear America Singing,' invites visitors to experience the diversity of American performing arts through the Library of Congress's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, phorographs, maps, and other materials."



Operabase
http://operabase.com/en/
This site archives details of thousands of opera performances, contains lists of opera houses worldwide, and provides links to other opera-related sites, including festivals and online magazines.

Public Domain Music
http://www.pdinfo.com/
Provides access to music that is in the public domain in the United States, including sheet music.



Worldwide Internet Music Resources via Indiana University
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/ 
A gateway to music sites worldwide, in all genres; includes links to lyrics and audio sites, composer and group-specific pages, and resources for academic research.
 
 
Sounds
 
MP3.com
http://www.mp3.com/
Downloadable sound files (in the MP3 format), from classical to rap to reggae.


 
Dance
 
American Ballet Theater
http://www.abt.org/
The site of the famous ballet company includes "news and information on the Company’s upcoming performances, repertoire, dances, history, members, and a whole lot more."


Dance Theater of Harlem
http://www.dancetheatreofharlem.com/
Official site of the renowned "neoclassic dance company."


Voice of Dance
http://www.voiceofdance.com/
A site for dance professionals and dance enthusiasts: contains information on performances and auditions; columns by dance experts; chat rooms; images and videos; and much more!

 

Philosophy

 
Episteme Links: Philosophy Resources on the Internet
http://www.epistemelinks.com/
This site provides links to philosophy resources on the WWW; it is searchable by philosopher name and by topic. Includes links to electronic texts and images.


The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep
An online encyclopedia of philosophers, philosophical movements, and philosophy terms.


Philosophy E-texts via Saint Anselm College
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/phtext.htm
Links to online academic papers and public-domain philosophy texts.


Philosophy Research Base: Worldwide Philosophy Resources
http://www.erraticimpact.com/
"Categorized by history, subject, and author, this mega-index integrates text with the best online resources in philosophy and related fields."


Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Online encyclopedia of philosophy; entries are reviewed by an editorial board of experts.



Carolyn White
Assistant Professor/Library Specialist
University of New Hampshire at Manchester Library
carolyn.white@unh.edu


Site last updated on May 12, 2006.