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AP Photo Archive
The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive includes photographs, audio clips, and text from the Associated Press's databases, but W&L's subscription includes only the photo database.
This Archive features state, regional and national photos from North America, as well as the best international photos, all available moments after they move on the AP's spot photo system.
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ARTFL (American And French Research On The Treasury Of The French Language)
ARTFL, the implementation of the FRANTEXT database, consists of nearly 2,000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises.
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Alex Catalogue Of Electronic Texts
Collection of digital documents from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy
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American Journeys
Over 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives.
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American Memory
Digital copies of over 7 million items from the Library of Congress's National Digital Library.
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American Presidency Project
Very useful compilation of documents, including "the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Washington - Taft (1789-1913); Public Papers of the Presidents, Hoover to Bush (1929-1993); Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Clinton - G.W. Bush (1993-2006)." Also other documents, statistical data, audio and video archive.
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American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank
Transcripts and audio of over 5,000 speeches.
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Avalon Project; Documents In Law, History, And Diplomacy
Hundreds of digitized documents in the subject areas of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government.
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Cetedoc Library Of Christian Latin Texts
Latin texts with translations in English, French, German, and Italian, chiefly from the following corpora: Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina; Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Medievalis; Corpus Christianorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum; Patrologiae cursus completus. Series Latina; Patrologiae Latinae supplementum; Sources chrétiennes; S. Bernardi opera omnia; and: Biblia sacra juxta vulgatam versionem.
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Clearinghouse Of Government Documents Digital Projects
Database of national, state, local, and international collections.
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Complete Works Of Charles Darwin
The largest collection of writings by and about Charles Darwin ever assembled, with the majority of works online here for the first time. Includes handwritten manuscripts, the Beagle diary and notebooks, many publications from periodicals, and correspondence. Most documents include HTML text as well as a photo representation of the original document. A manuscript catalog may be searched here.
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Constitution Finder
Current and past constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents for nations around the world.
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Corpus Of Middle English Prose And Verse
Digitized copies of about 150 works in Middle English. See the list at "Sources," above.
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CyberCemetery
Permanent access to defunct Federal Government agency and commission Web sites and their publications. Joint project of the U.S. Government Printing Office and the University of North Texas.
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Documents Of United States Indian Policy
Third edition (2000) contains over 200 documents (listed chronologically), with brief commentary on each. The library also has a printed copy.
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)
EEBO provides digital access to over 125,000+ literary and historical classics. All works are in full image format, meaning that images accurately reflect the way the works appeared in their original printed editions. Besides literary and historical works, the database also includes musical exercises, prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars, and many other primary resources.
Funding was made possible by a gift from William Buice, Class of 1961.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) provides access to the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, ECCO allows researchers new methods of access to publications in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
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Electronic Text Center
About 70,000 humanities texts in thirteen languages, with more than 350,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.) . Some materials are available only at the University of Virginia.
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Encyclopedia Of Diderot And D'Alembert
Ambitious (and not yet complete) project to provide an English translation of this 32-volume 18th-century masterpiece.
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EuroDocs: Online Sources For European History
Links to "European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated."
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Founders' Constitution
Compilation of documents important to the development of constitutional government in the U.S.
The printed multi-volume set is available in the library collection.
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Harper's Weekly: The Civil War Era And Reconstruction (1857-1877)
Browse or search issues of Harper's Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper.
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Historic Documents
Contains texts and commentary on over 3,000 documents, ranging from "presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions." Coverage begins with 1972.
Much of the value of the database lies in CQ's analysis of the actual document, summarizing the history, issues, personalities, and controversies surrounding the item.
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Humanities E-Book Project
This database (formerly called the History E-book Project) includes the complete contents of 1,700 high-quality humanities books from over 90 publishers and a working group of learned societies. About 500 works are to be added each year.
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Internet Archive -- Wayback Machine
Specialized in storing and accessing "old" Web pages, with coverage extending back to 1995. Includes over 30 billion pages.
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Internet Sacred Text Archive
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.
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LexisNexis Serial Set Digital Collection
This form of the Serial Set contains records dating from 1789 to 1969.
Later records are available in this contemporary database.
Still being published in paper form in the 21st century, the modern Serial Set is now almost exclusively a collection of Congressional reports and documents. However, for most of its history, it was much more than that, including hundreds of thousands of reports in a wide variety of subject areas from dozens of government agencies.
For more information, see this page and this University of Michigan display.
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Making Of America
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
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Multilaterals Project
Texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments, primarily in the fields of the environment, human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and other areas.
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National Security Archive
Collection of government documents (over 1/2 million pages) on a "wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States." Many of the items have been de-classified and are available here for the first time.
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National Union Catalog Of Manuscript Collections
The Library of Congress's index of manuscript collections in the U.S. (Texts of manuscripts not available electronically.)
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OAIster
OAIster (Open Archives Initiative) "harvests" collections of digital resources from nearly 300 academic and research-related institutions, now totaling over 3 million items.
It focuses on materials (reports, studies, other documents) created at respected academic and research institutions. Much of this material is not retrieved by more "general" search engines.
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Online Books Page
Texts of over 20,000 books.
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Our Documents
100 milestone documents in U.S history from 1776 to 1965.
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PHI : CD ROM #5.3
Latin literature
Bible -- Manuscripts
Bible -- Versions
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Presidential Speeches
A collection of U.S. presidential speeches. The 20th-century speeches include audio.
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Project Gutenberg
Texts of over 10,000 books, mostly older literary works in the public domain in the U.S.
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Women Writers Online
Searchable database of online texts by women writers.
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