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Online Books: Full Text Resources

Project Gutenberg

First and largest collection of free ebooks.  All materials have expired copyrights; usually published prior to 1923

 

Bartleby's Full Text Books

Preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference books and poems

 


 
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More Recommended Sites for Internet Searching 

000s - Generalities

HeadlineSpot

Guide to thousands of the best U.S. and international news resources on the Web

 

Google News Archive

search articles stretching back more than 200 years, from the archives of Time Magazine, The Guardian, CNN, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times, the Washington Post and aggregators like LexisNexis and Factiva.

 

100s - Philosophy & Psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

200s - Religion

Islam and Islamic Studies Resources for Studying Islam and the Diverse Perspectives of Muslims
A collection of annotated sites on the study of Islam, Islam in the modern world, militant Islam, jihad, Islamist or extremist Muslims, and terrorism, Islam in Iraq, Muslim women, Islamic art, architecture, music, as well as Islamic history, theology, philosophy, and Arabic and other Islamic languages such as Persian, and religion in general.

 

 

 

300s - Social Sciences

FBI Newspaper Archive

Search Newspaper Articles about FBI in more than 50,000 Historical Newspaper Pages.

 

GovSpot

GovSpot.com is a non-partisan government information portal designed to simplify the search for the best and most relevant government information online

 

Crime In the United States 2005

Crime stats from the US Department of Justice & the FBI

More Social Studies Sites

400s - Language

The French Connection

Links to sites (in French) about French history, culture, etc.

 

 

 

500s - Science

Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section
Contains mathematical and geometrical facts as well as formulas, history, and diagrams. Find explanations of Fibonacci numbers, methods for constructing golden sections in two or three dimensions, and information about the golden section (or mean or rectangle) in architecture, art, and music.

600s - Technology

Household Words: Women Write From and For the Kitchen
Contains images of texts and explores the history of cookbooks and the social significance of culinary writings on the lives of women. Features information on cooking schools, the advent of "home economics," and the impact of the food industry and mass production.

 

 

700s - The Arts (includes sports)

Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD) - includes print info as well as other media for the performing arts - scene design drawings, digital images, video & more

 

Artcyclopedia

Guide to art resources on the Internet; search by name, nationality, subject & more

 

The Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum

Cooperstown, NY site dedicated to the history of America's game

More Arts Sites

800s - Literature

Eighteenth Century Resources

Includes art, architecture, literature, science & mathematics; focuses mostly on Britain, but contains some resources from other countries

 

The Victorian Web

Politics, science, literature, places & more

 

Women Writers: An Online Peer Reviewed Journal

Includes articles, reviews, biograhical info & more

 

The Web of American Transendentalism

Includes info on authors, texts, roots, influences & more.

 

Literary Criticism on the Internet Public Library

Search for literary criticism on the Web by author, title, time period, etc.

 

 

More Literature Sites

900s - History

Countries & Cultures

CIA World Factbook

Annually updated resource published by the government containing information on the countries of the world

More Countries & Cultures Sites

 

World History

Witchcraft Collection

resources on the history of superstition and witchcraft persecution in Europe; focuses on witchcraft not as folklore or anthropology, but as theology and as religious heresy.

More World History Sites

 

American History

Making  Of America

Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

More American History Sites

 

  General Reference

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

An online dictionary with full text definitions

 

Zip Code Directory

Find zip codes by entering address & city names