English Online Resources

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The Modern English Collection (AD 1500-present)

Browse by subject: African American, including Letters from Liberia; Native American; American Civil War; Salem Witch Trials; Thomas Jefferson; Edgar Allan Poe; Mark Twain; William Shakespeare; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Women Writers; Young Readers; Literature in Translation; Best Sellers, 1900-1930; UVa Special Collections.

2,722 titles including 17,518 manuscript and book illustrations (including covers, spines, page images), many of which are publicly accessible.

Approximately 3,000 titles (UVA only)

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Access for UVA users only

Including The Shakespeare First Folio and various other editions and adaptions of Shakespeare (many publicly-accessible works)

Several Bibles, the Book of Mormon, and the Koran (publicly-accessible)

21 versions of the English Bible (UVA only)

from InteLex, including works by Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Dewey, Pierce, and others (UVA only)

from Routledge [including links from the Encyclopedia to our full-text philosophy holdings] (UVA only)

• The Pennsylvania Gazette. Volumes I-IV: 1728-1800. (UVA only)
  
  
• African American Newspapers, 1827-1860. This database currently includes the following titles: Freedom's Journal (1827-1830) New York, New York ; Colored American (1837-1841) New York, New York ; The North Star (1847-1851) Rochester, New York ; Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-1859) ; National Era (1847-1860) ; Provincial Freeman (1854-1857). (UVA only)
  
  
• The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective. Includes text and images from The New York Herald, the Richmond Enquirer, and The Charleston Mercury published from November 1860 through May 1865. (UVA only)

From the University of Virginia collections (all users)

• The S. T. Coleridge Archive
• Works by Lewis Carroll, Ann Batten Cristall, Alfred Edward Housman, Richard Polwhele, Mary Robinson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The Germ, Volumes 1-4 1850

(Readex, 1995). Sample titles, two with digital images, from the Documentary Sources Database. American Multiculturalism Series, Unit One. (all users)

Revised edition, with illustrations. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1995. (all users)

The University of Virginia Four-Millionth Volume. [Includes text, images, audio, and video.] (all users)