Internet Public Library: The IPL Online Texts Collection contains links to over 13,000 online titles browsable by author, title, or Dewey Decimal Subject Classification. Site also supports key word searches which can be limited by author, title, or Dewey subject. “Other Text Collections” provides links to other useful directories of online texts. “The Ready Reference Collection” provides annotated lists of quality internet resources on a wide variety of subjects. Supported by the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service.
http://www/ipl.org
The English Server at CMU: Collections in the Arts and Humanities: Since 1990, the Eserver has published over 18000 works online. A variety of topics are covered, including Cultural Studies, Music and Music Theory, Audio Recordings of Scholarly presentations; Renaissance, 18th Century, Feminism, Philosophy, Poetry, and Race. Note: the Eserver is about to move to the University of Washington.
http://eserver.org>http://eserver.org
Community College Humanities Association: Humanities Sites of Interest: Links page to sites in the Humanities. Neither annotated nor extensive, but includes a variety of high quality sites.
http://www.ccha-assoc.org/links/links.html
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine: International and interdisciplinary site dedicated to using the internet to advance education. Housed at Michigan State University, site includes discussion groups, book and software reviews, teaching resources, information on conferences and links to more humanities sites.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/#Humanities
Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research: Perhaps the most comprehensive collection of quality humanities sites on the web. Includes an extensive database of sites indexed by subject area and type. This site also has its own search engine. Maintained by Allan Liu at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.html
Yale Library Selected Internet Resources in the Humanities: Extensive listings of internet sites organized by subject within “hierarchical menus.”
Broad subject areas include Arts, Classics, History and Area Studies, Languages and Literature, Philosophy, Religion and Women’s Studies.
Many sites annotated. http://www.library.yale.edu/Internet/humanities.html
The Ancient World Web: MEGASITE. A massive compendium of annotated websites on just about every ancient culture you can think of. Subjects include art, archaeology, history, mythology, language, literature, philosophy and more.
http://www.julen.net/aw/"
Argos Limited Area Search Engine of the Ancient and Medieval Internet: Argos was the very first limited area search engine, with a focus on the ancient and medieval worlds. Sites are only included in the search (and thereby designated Argos Associates) if judged to be relevant and of good quality by qualified professionals.
http://argos.evansville.edu
The Cambridge Classics External Gateway to Humanities Resources: A selective list of links to internet resources in the classics, including online texts. This site can be browsed by academic discipline or special topic, or searched using Argos Limited Search Engine of the Ancient World (see below). Sites seem well-chosen, but are not annotated; site overall doesn’t seem well maintained with a number of links outdated.
http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/Faculty/links.html
Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology: Selective lists of links to internet resources relevant to classical studies and archaeology in the Mediterranean region. Included are links to texts, journals, bibliographies, museums, exhibits, atlases, etc. Also included are general interest sites such as "Ancient Roman Cooking." Searchable and browsable.
http://rome.classics.lsa.umich.edu/
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World. "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." Contains extensive searchable bibliographies on various subjects, essays, suggestions for course materials, and a Biblical Studies resources page.
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html
The Perseus Project: MEGASITE. An Argos Associate (see above), this site includes several search engines of its own that provide access to information not covered by Argos:
English Index to the Database, Greek Word Search of Primary Texts, English Word Search of the Liddel, Scott and Jones Greek Lexicon, Art and Archeology Indices, Browser for Architecture, Coins, Sculpture, Sites, and Vases, The Encyclopedia Subject Index, and All Primary Texts (Greek and English).
Image collections of art, architecture and archaeological sites are particularly impressive. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
Byzantine and Medieval Studies Sites: MEGASITE. A mammoth collection of links to internet resources on Byzantine and Medieval Studies. Organized according to extensive subject index. Includes link to Argos LASE. Last updated September 9, 1998.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medweb/
Medieval New York: A Unique site. A guide to medieval New York created by Paul Halsall’s medieval history students at Fordham University. Includes discussions of buildings and institutions, with lots of photographs, which illustrate the continued presence of the medieval in this modern city.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/medny.html
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies:The Labyrinth is includes national and international medieval culture, special topics (e.g. Arthurian legend), professional and pedagogical information, and text, image and archival databases. A user-friendly subject directory allows user to select types of resource materials along with subject. Site is currently being reconstructed, so searches may be frustrating in the short term.
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources:NetSERF is an extremely thorough and extensive database of information on any and all aspects of medieval society and its culture. It includes search engines and a fantastic glossary for obscure medieval terminology. It also includes an extensive bibliography of sources divided up by specializations. This includes everything from history to literature to legends and more. Other links include full texts of works by medieval authors, links to web pages about those authors, and other links to electronic collections of medieval works. http://www.cua.edu/www/hist/netserf/home.htm
Eighteenth-Century Resources: MEGASITE. This HUGE site is housed at Rutgers and features annotated links to eighteenth century internet resources in humanities disciplines-art, architecture, landscape gardening, music, literature, philosophy, history, religion, economics and so on. Within disciplines, sites are indexed by subject. Browsable. Includes links to major collections electronic texts and to eighteenth-century etexts indexed by author.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th
Romantic Links: This wonderful site is organized by general Romantic links, author links, electronic texts, and homepages of Romantic scholars
http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/romantic/r-index.html
Romantic Chronology: This site is organized in groups of several years from the end of the eighteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century. When you choose a particular block of time, e.g. 1796-1798, you will then access a detailed chronology of political, social, and cultural events of those years, connected to topics, such as abolition, which take you to related sites of primary and secondary sources. This site seems especially useful for students needing to make connections among the humanities, between political and cultural events.
http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/_default.htm
Victorian Web: MEGASITE. This HUGE site at Brown is organized by discipline and subdisciplines-e.g. gender matters, social history, political history, authors, visual arts, decorative arts. http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victor.html
Annotated Index to Websites on Modernism: This website at Brown University is organized alphabetically by artist (author, composer, painter, et al) and by general resourses on modernism. Some of the choices of modernists seem a bit idiosyncratic (modernism is used to represent dates more than style).
http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/_default.htm
Women's Studies Resources: Well-annotated and classified links to women's studies subjects, including feminism, history, art, music, literature, sports, activism.
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/
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