English Language & Literature

Full text database of manuscripts, artwork, and rare printed books.

A primary source database that includes manuscripts, maps, broadsides, and a variety of ephemeral works.

A digital reproduction of the 8 volumes of "The American Jewess."

Contains 1,460 full text English plays ca. 1850-present by more than 250 playwrights from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean.

Approximately 11,700 works of short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present.

Includes facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials.

Includes facsimile page images and full text for a broad range of British periodicals published between the 17th and the 20th century.

Over 60,000 images of original manuscripts related to Empire Studies sourced from libraries and archives around the world.

Online collection of over 5,000 historical documents.