Health Humanities: 4. Websites

Access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States

From the Library of Congress, focuses on its digital collections including photographs and primary sources from around the world

Access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience

Include 135,000+ images and documents shared by more than 150 cultural heritage organizations across the state including Duluth, our College, and Monastery

A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events and things in Minnesota history.

Has photos, audio and video of instruments from around the world

Primary documents like maps, photographs, books and from around the world

The Leo Baeck Institute, New York (LBI) is the foremost research institute devoted to the history of German-speaking Jews. Its 80,000-volume library and extensive archival and art collections represent the most significant repository of primary source material and scholarship on the Jewish communities of Central Europe over the past five centuries.

Digitized manuscripts & printed books from one of the world's greatest libraries.

A compilation of Chinese ideograph-based terms, texts, temples, schools, and persons found in Buddhist canonical sources.

Glossary of poetry terms including lines of poetry as examples of usage.

London Lives makes available, in a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London, with a particular focus on plebeian Londoners. This resource includes over 240,000 manuscript and printed pages from eight London archives and is supplemented by fifteen datasets created by other projects. It provides access to historical records containing over 3.35 million name instances. Facilities are provided to allow users to link together records relating to the same individual, and to compile biographies of the best documented individuals.

Links, by subject, to over 2000 medieval web sites

"Perseus is a continually growing digital library of resources for studying the ancient world. The library's materials include ancient texts and translations, philological tools, maps, extensively illustrated art catalogs, and secondary essays on topics like vase painting. A collaborative team from a number of academic institutions has worked together to amass Perseus materials." Sponsored by the Classics Department of Tufts University, MA.

View digitized versions of various primary documents relating to Shakespeare's life, work, and influence.

See 107 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the 1642 theatre closures. From the British Library.

Search the Time Out database of over 20,000 film reviews. The articles on this site are brief, well-written, and often quite amusing. Time Out has been publishing an annual guide in book form since 1989. This free web site appears to include all the brief reviews which are found in the print edition.

Over 51,000 personal testimonies of genocide.

Links to full-text of plays and to public domain books that contain criticism, such as the 1920s Cambridge History of English and American Literature in Eighteen Volumes.