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Sites for Exploring 19th-century American Culture:

Buffalo Americanist Digest An annotated listing of current scholarship in American literature, culture and history. It summarizes articles currently appearing in journals such as American Literature and American Literary History. Extremely useful.   American Authors on the Web A Japanese (!) index to everything American. Useful for its comprehensive sweep.   Wildernet: American Environment and American Culture A site maintained at Yale--great pictures, and a real illustration of the possibilities created by Web technology.   Godey's Lady's Book Online The original 1850 publication in digitized form.   The Illustrating Traveler: Adventure and Illustration in North America and the Caribbean 1760-1895 (A Beinecke Rare Book and Mauscript Library Exhibition)   Nineteenth Century U.S. Historical Text Archive (Jefferson papers; Louisiana Purchase; Monroe Doctrine; Slavery; Women's movement; and much more.)   Nathaniel Hawthorne Society- They are dedicated to the study and appreciation of the author's life and works. http://asweb.artsci.uc.edu/english/nh.html  Selected Hawthorne Texts Online http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/hawthor.html  Hawthorne's Writing http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/nhwrit.html  American Literature on the Web http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/h/hawthorne19ro.html  Hawthorne and Melville: Best Buds http://www.melville.org/hawthrne.html  Nathaniel Hawthorne in Salem http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org 19th Century American Women Writers http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww/19cwww.html  19th Century Literary Figures and Online Text http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/19th/writers.html  Western Literature Association http://www.usu.edu/~westlit   |  More Tools  |   The Voice of the Shuttle The largest, most comprehensive, and most varied index for Humanities research on the Web. Here is a great theory website with a Foucault action figure! http://www.theory.org.uk Voice of the Shuttle-Literary Theory Site http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/theory.html  The John Hopkins Literary Theory and Criticism-ONLINE http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory Google! "One of my absolute favorite search engines."- Gina http://www.google.com Nineteenth-Century Literature Journal-ONLINE edition http://www.ucpress.edu/scan/ncl-e