American Lit Resources

General Sites:

American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of American Exploration and Settlement

American Women’s Dime Novel Project

Crossroads: Hypertext Projects in American Literature at UVA

Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project

A Guide to the Study of Literature (Brooklyn College, CUNY)

Native American Authors — Internet Public Library

Nines: Nineteenth-century Scholarship Online

The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature, A Research and Reference Guide

Representative Poetry Online
(includes English and Canadian poets)

Resources for Research on American Periodicals

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Society for the Study of American Women Writers

Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)

Women in America, 1820-1842

Women’s Work in the Long 19th Century

Individual Writers and Texts

Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society

Dickinson Electronic Archives

Edith Wharton Society

Henry David Thoreau Homepage

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The James Fenimore Cooper Society

Melville on the WWW

Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture

The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive