Creative Writing

Foundational books in the humanities and social sciences, selected by scholars.

Access to 20th century primary source materials including selected speeches, letters, legal decisions, government documents, lyrics, advertisements, literary scripts, recipes, scrapbooks, and cartoons. Continued in American Decades: 2000-2009.

Access to encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,763 unedited, 1,124 fully edited and encoded) by 1,456 authors.