Primary Resources
These are databases owned or subscribed to by Boatwright Library which contain full texts.
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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) This link opens in a new windowSearch for books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America during the 17th and 18th centuries. Most subject areas and genres of literature are represented in this collection. It also includes supplemental material from the the Library Company of Philadelphia. (Newsbank/Readex)
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Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) This link opens in a new windowSearch for books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America during the early 19th century. Most subject areas and genres of literature are represented in this collection. It also includes supplemental material from the the Library Company of Philadelphia. (Newsbank/Readex)
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Early English Books Online This link opens in a new windowAccess books printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1770. Subjects covered include literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, religion, and politics. (ProQuest)
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18th Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowSearch books, pamphlets, and broadsides published between 1701-1800 in Britain (and its territories), Ireland, and the United States. The database includes materials in a variety of languages (although it's mostly English), and it contains an array of works - from encyclopedias to novels to law books to religious tracts to auction catalogs. (Gale)
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19th Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new windowSearch an archive of newspapers published in the 1800s by a variety of groups, including political parties, African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, and the Confederacy. This collection includes newspapers from every one of the 50 modern-day US states. (Gale)
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Early American Newspapers This link opens in a new windowSearch for newspaper articles published in the US from the colonial period through Reconstruction. This collection was a gift of Edwin S. Snead III, class of 1951. (Newsbank/Readex)
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19th Century UK Periodicals (Part II: Empire) This link opens in a new windowSearch a collection of periodicals that focus on the role Britain played as an imperial power throughout the 1800s. It contains periodicals from Australia, Canada, Ceylon, India, New Zealand, and South Africa. (Note: We only have access to Part II: Empire). (Gale)
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Black Short Fiction and Folklore This link opens in a new windowAccess stories produced by authors from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present. Find fables, parables, ballads, folk tales, short story cycles, and novellas - each piece of content has fewer than 10,000 words. (ProQuest)
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Patrologia Latina This link opens in a new windowAccess philosophical and theological documents written by the Latin Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The database is essentially a complete version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina. (ProQuest)
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Patrologia Graeca This link opens in a new window
Access Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439. This database contains the writings of church leaders who wrote in Greek, including both the Eastern "Fathers" and those Western Christians who wrote before the Latin takeover of the West in the third century. Note: Search the index for specific content. (Religion and Technology Center, Inc.)
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Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina This link opens in a new window
Search for Latin texts written from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages to the present. (de Gruyter Brill)
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Corpus Scriptorum RomanorumA digital library of Latin literature
Online Archives
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International Dialects of English ArchiveStrong global range of standardized samples, with almost all subjects reading the same text. Nearly 1,500 samples from 120 countries.
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North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation PatternsRick Aschman website recommended by Prof. Kissling.
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Audio Samples of Local DialectsFrom Rick Aschmann's page.
You can also search for "accent tags" on Youtube. There is a specific list of words to read and questions to answer and people from around the country (and world) have recorded themselves to provide examples of their local speech.
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Corpus of Contemporary American EnglishThe Corpus of Contemporary American English is a large, genre-balanced corpus which can be used to accurately track and study recent changes in the language. The 400 million words corpus is evenly divided between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.
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IELEX: Indo-European LexiconThe Indo-European Lexicon (IELEX) presents a freely available etymological database in which users can explore the relations within and among languages, ancient and modern, in the Indo-European family of languages.
Blogs and Podcasts
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All Things LinguisticA daily blog about all things linguistic by Gretchen McCulloch, who writes about linguistics for a general audience.
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SuperlinguoLinguistics researcher in Australia.
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Language HatInteresting but most useful for the long and varied list of language resource links.