The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. includes Ancient, Medieval, and modern Sourcebooks, also: African History, East Asian History, Global History, Indian History, Islamic History, Jewish History, History of Science, Women's History, and An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History.
The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. His many notebooks, manuscript fragments, prose essays, letters, and voluminous journalistic articles all offer key cultural and biographical contexts for his poetry. The Archive sets out to incorporate as much of this material as possible, drawing on the resources of libraries and collections from around the United States and around the world. The Archive is directed by Kenneth M. Price (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Ed Folsom (University of Iowa).
The Open Utopia is a complete edition of Thomas More’s Utopia that honors the primary precept of Utopia itself: that all property is common property. But Utopia is more than the story of a far-off land with no private property. It’s a text that instructs us how to approach texts, be they literary or political, in an open manner: open to criticism, open to participation, and open to re-creation.
This collection contains canonical philosophic texts and links to scholarly philosophic organizations. The heart of Philosophy is our collection of canonical texts. There are currently only a few critical articles and essays in the Philosophy collection, and most of these have been contributed by previous editors and collection participants.
The University of Adelaide. The purpose of this site is: to provide access to the “classic” works of civilisation; Selection of titles is loosely based on what are described as “the Great Books”, but includes all manner of things that took the Editor's fancy. all of our eBooks are available in the ePub format.
The Homer Multitext seeks to present the textual transmission of the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey in a historical framework. Such a framework is needed to account for the full reality of a complex medium of oral performance that underwent many changes over a long period of time. These changes, as reflected in the many texts of Homer, need to be understood in their many different historical contexts. The Homer Multitext provides ways to view these contexts both synchronically and diachronically.
Full text of many articles on "fraud" in science. This is a personal pursuit of examples of "fraud" in science based on the idea that science is frequently done as "fast practice" and scientists, like the rest of us, cut corners. Some of the best known scientists in history are covered.
Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s.
Commonplace books selected for the Reading collection emphasize unpublished manuscript commonplace books and printed commonplace books with handwritten entries from the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Although a few examples of printed commonplace books and florilegia have been included, the emphasis is on the diversity of practice found in manuscript commonplace books.
Ethics Updates is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide resources and updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics. USD
The Philosophy Pages is an online library of philosophy and theology texts, including selected writings of philosophers from anicent times to the contemporary period, including Plato, Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Pythagoras, amongst many others.
Handwritten annotations in books are an important key to understand how historical readers used their books. ABO aims to bring these books together. It is a digital library that reveals the variety of traces that readers left in their books. These examples were previously dispersed over many different libraries in the world. Yet it is also a digital laboratory, where visitors can work together: ABO has tools to enrich the early modern annotations with transcriptions and translations. ABO seeks to encourage collaboration.