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 windowBooks on history, culture, religion, commerce, education, literature, poetry, music, politics, travel etc. from the Colonial period through the early 19th century. Includes the supplemental material from the the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) This link opens in a new windowBooks from 1801-1819 published in America on the topics of history, culture, religion, commerce, education, literature, poetry, music, politics, travel, etc. Includes the supplemental material from the the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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Early English Books Online This link opens in a new windowBooks on history, culture, religion, commerce, education, literature, poetry, music, politics, travel etc. from the first book printed in English through the through the end of the 17th century.
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18th Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowDigital texts of books published in England in several languages between 1701-1800. Coverage from a variety of materials -- including books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera -- with works by many well-known and lesser-known authors, women, and collections from the French Revolution.
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19th Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new windowCollections of 19th century newspapers, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects.
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Early American Newspapers [Gift of Edwin S. Snead III, Class of 1951] This link opens in a new windowNewspaper articles on history, culture, religion, commerce, education, politics, and more from the Colonial Period through the Reconstruction Period. [more information about this gift]
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19th Century UK Periodicals This link opens in a new windowPeriodicals published in Great Britain giving insight into many aspects of the 19th century lifeliterature and culture, empire, feminism, the history of the book, the creative and performing arts, sport and leisure, science and medicine, the professions.
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Black Short Fiction and Folklore This link opens in a new windowStories produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present.
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Patrologia Latina This link opens in a new windowCovers philosophical and theological writings from Latin Christianity up to the year 1216.
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Patrologia Graeca Electronic This link opens in a new windowGreek 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. [search the index]
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Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina This link opens in a new windowContains the complete text, other than prefaces or critical apparatus, of the standard editions of classical Latin literature from the Roman Republic to the Imperial Period and Late Antiquity.
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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.
