American Poetry in the Age of Whitman and Dickinson

Nineteenth-Century American Poetry Resources (in process)

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I’ve been slow to organize the links I rely on, which are tangled up in and between the categories bookmarked in my web browser … it’s as hopeless a mess as my desk. But I guess I’ll start adding the links as I use them. With the aim of adding descriptive text as time allows.

Portals

American Memory (Library of Congress)

American Studies at the University of Virginia

Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina)

Collections

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Nineteenth Century in Print: Books (American Memory)

Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals (American Memory)

North American Slave Narratives (Documenting the American South)

Exhibits

Beyond Face Value (Louisiana State University): Depictions of slavery on antebellum and Civil War-era Southern money.

Authors

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom’s Cabin & American Culture (University of Virginia)

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America Website (University of Virginia)

Walt Whitman

The Walt Whitman Archive

Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 (University of Virginia Electronic Text Center)

Walt Whitman Notebooks (American Memory)

Misc.

Webster’s Dictionary, 1828 edition

Harper’s Weekley from the Civil War Years

Written by Ben Friedlander

May 6, 2009 at 1:01 pm

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