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Classics

History

  • Domesday Book

    In 1085 William the Conqueror commissioned a highly detailed survey and valuation of the resources and taxable values of all the boroughs and manors in England.

  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online: History & Geography

    Eighteenth Century Collections Online: History & Geography spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and travelers. It is particularly strong in ancient history as well as histories of the British Isles and nations of Europe. Works presenting the British perspective on the settlement of the American colonies and the French Revolution are also included, along with biographies of prominent persons, books on culture and society, and a large number of travel accounts and gazetteers.

  • Georgia Historic Books

    Significant 19th and early 20th century books on the culture, history, biography, and literature of Georgia.

  • History of the University of Georgia by Thomas Walter Reed

    From 1885 to 1950, Thomas Walter Reed was an eyewitness to much of the University of Georgia’s history. He retired as Registrar in 1945 and then wrote this book, which is still very popular with researchers. Digitized by the Digital Library of Georgia.

  • Perseus Digital Library (English Renaissance)

    The Perseus Garner Collection is a gathering of primary materials from the early modern period in England (commonly called the English Renaissance). It includes literary and historical works.

Literature

  • African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

    A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. This collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. The database is keyword-searchable.

  • Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

    A full-text collection of classic American and English literature as well as Western philosophy in the public domain and written or translated into English. Offers the ability to keyword search within the text of books.

  • ARTFL

    Choose a database from the horizontal bar: Main ARTFL Database - FRANTEXT, French Women Writers, Provençal Poetry, or Dictionnaires d'autrefois, or click on "Collections of Texts" for the full list.

  • Goethes Werke im WWW

    The works of Goethe, originally published between 1887 and 1919. Also includes supplemental works, speeches and letters.

  • Library of Southern Literature

    The "Library of Southern Literature" includes a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924. There is also a search option in the menu.

  • LION (Literature Online)

    A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose. Select “Complete Contents” under “Browse” in the left menu. Click on “Texts” for a listing by time period and genre.

  • Perseus Digital Library (English Renaissance)

    The Perseus Garner Collection is a gathering of primary materials from the early modern period in England (commonly called the English Renaissance). It includes literary and historical works.

Philosophy

Religion

  • The Bible in English

    Twenty-one versions of the Bible in full text, published from the 10th to the 20th centuries. To see a list of all the Bibles included in this database, click on "Browse Bibles" in the left menu.

  • Christian Classics Ethereal Library

    An online collection of hundreds of classic Christian texts. Click on the 'browse' tab to browse by author, title or subject. The 'search' tab allows you to search for a title or author, or within the full text of the works.

  • Internet Sacred Text Archive

    This site is a freely available archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language.

  • Patrologia Latina

    Writings of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 A.D. to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.

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