Databases by Subject-Arts & Humanities

American Memory
Digital collection from the Library of Congress relating to the history and culture of the United States. Broad topics covered in the collection include agriculture, art and architecture, business and economics, education, geography, history, languages and literature, performing arts, philosophy and religion, political science and law, recreation and sports, social sciences, and technology and applied sciences.

American Periodical Series Online
Searchable full-text database that includes digitized images of pages from American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century (dates of coverage: 1741-1900).

ARTstor
ARTstor’s Charter Collection contains approximately 300,000 digital images of visual material from different cultures and disciplines, and seeks to offer sufficient breadth and depth to support a wide range of non-commercial educational and scholarly activities.

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
Comprehensive, peer-reviewed resource of collected links to scholarly works, Web sites, and texts of philosophers that are online. The site also links to other guides in English and foreign languages.

JSTOR
Full-text database of back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, philosophy, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. NOTE: JSTOR does not contain issues from the most recent 3-5 years.

MLA International Bibliography
Citation database of journal articles, books and dissertations; coverage dating back to 1963. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

Perseus Digital Library
Digital library of resources for the study of the humanities; includes texts relating to ancient Greece, Latin text and tools, and Renaissance-related materials. Also includes materials on the United States' westward expansion and other materials of early American history including the American Civil War.

Project Gutenberg
Provides access to books in the public domain in electronic text format; over 6,000 titles have been posted to the site. Texts available include "light" and "heavy" literature and reference sources such as almanacs, encyclopedias, and dictionaries.

Project MUSE
Full-text database of more than 200 scholarly publications in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

Women Writers Online
Resource devoted to early modern women's writing covering a period from 1400 to 1850.