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Mickle Street Review: An Electronic Journal of Whitman and American Studies

Walt Whitman always reads well, but on this site he also sounds and looks quite well. The Mickle Street Review brings together audio clips, video recordings, and written scholarship on and about Whitman and the broader world of American Studies. The Review was first published in 1979 and it is based at Rutgers University in Camden. Visitors to the site can browse all of the back issues of the...

https://micklestreet.rutgers.edu/
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Modernist Archives Publishing Project

Literature scholars, librarians, archivists, and historians may be particularly interested in the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP), an international collaborative project creating "a critical digital archive of early twentieth-century publishers, beginning with Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press (est. 1917)." Launched in June 2017, MAPP focuses on "the stories not so often told...

https://www.modernistarchives.com/
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Moving Poems

Created by writer and editor Dave Bonta, Moving Poems describes itself as "an on-going anthology of the best poetry videos from around the web, appearing at a rate of one every weekday most weeks." The site primarily focuses on showcasing videopoetry, which juxtaposes poetic texts with audio and visual elements. Readers may wish to begin by browsing an alphabetical directory of poets and...

https://movingpoems.com/
National Yiddish Book Center

The motto of the National Yiddish Book Center is "Rescuing Books, Inspiring Readers". It's quite appropriate, as they have digitized over 10,000 books and placed them online here. Of course, that's not all they have done, and visitors to the site can read about their new facilities, their leadership, and membership opportunities. First-time visitors can click on the "About the Center" section to...

https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/
NewsOnline: Digital Library and Archives, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Back in 1991, the Digital Library and Archives (DLA) at Virginia Tech began to provide online access to local, regional, and international newspapers. It was an early digital library project, and it continues to provide access to a range of periodicals and transcripts of television news reports for local television stations in and around southwestern Virginia. On the site, visitors will find...

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/NewsOnline/
Nieman Watchdog

The Nieman Watchdog Journalism Project at Harvard University is concerned with helping "the press ask penetrating questions, critical questions, questions that matter, questions not yet asked about today's news." It's a very laudable mission, and for anyone concerned with these matters, their website will be one worth returning to numerous times. Along the top of the homepage, visitors can...

http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/
North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project

In the late 1790s, North Carolina residents in towns like Edenton, Fayetteville, Hillsboro, and New Bern all had local newspapers that served as important sources of information for town politics, births, deaths, agriculture, and a myriad of other topics. Now curious types in the 21st century can read these important and interesting newspapers online, courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives....

https://digital.ncdcr.gov/
Oral Tradition Journal

Stretching back thousands of years, the oral traditions that have enriched and documented human existence remain a subject of much fascination. The Oral Tradition Journal was founded in 1986 in order to "serve as an international and interdisciplinary forum for discussion of worldwide oral traditions and related forms." The journal is based at the University of Missouri, and visitors to the site...

https://journal.oraltradition.org/
Original Shakespeare portrait unveiled

Is This a Shakespeare Which I See Before Me? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/world/europe/10shakespeare.html?ref=world Why is this the definitive image of Shakespeare? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7936629.stm Shakespeare's first theatre found http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7931823.stm William Shakespeare at the National Portrait...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2009/0313
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Oxford African American Studies Center: Focus on Women and Literature

The Oxford African American Studies Center has created this website to house its comprehensive collection of scholarship documenting the many and varied experiences that make up African and African American history and culture. Along with over 10,000 articles, 2,500 images, and 200 maps, the site features an excellent "Focus On" series each month, in which the editors compile various short...

https://oxfordaasc.com/page/focus-on-women-and-literature;
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