Scholars, students, and educators of Dante's Divine Comedy, as well as aficionados of the medieval poet's masterpiece, may find Dante Lab to be of interest. First launched in 2013, Dante Lab is a project of Dartmouth College that grew out of its predecessor, the Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP). The DDP "edited and digitized the entire texts of more than 75 commentaries to the Divine Comedy," written...

The good folks at the Dartmouth Digital Library Initiatives continue to offer a veritable cornucopia of printed ephemera, and this website will delight anyone with an interest in topics as wide-ranging as comics, Dr. Seuss, Russian placards, or the Arctic. Here visitors can make their way through nine digitized works, including "The Fortunes of Ferdinand Flipper." This particular item was...

The enduring appeal and relevance of ancient Greek and Roman literature has created an abundance of scholarly work in this field, and since the end of the eighteenth century, there have been hundreds of Classics scholars. The Database of Classical Scholars offers its visitors an extensive and fully searchable who's who of the field, providing both biographical and bibliographical information on...

When David Foster Wallace died in September 2008, he left behind his wife, students, friends, thousands of grieving fans - and an unfinished novel he had been writing, on and off, for over a decade. "The Pale King," cobbled together from thousands of pages of notes and drafts by his longtime editor and published in early 2011, constituted readers' last look at a long book from Wallace. Now, thanks...

For librarians, educators, and parents in search of books for young readers, De Colores is a blog dedicated to "review[ing] and critiqu[ing] children's and young adult books about Raza peoples throughout the Diaspora." De Colores is authored and edited by educator Beverly Slapin and authored by a team of literature scholars, librarians, educators, and activists. Visitors can find the most recent...

Scholars and fans of nineteenth-century British literature (as well as those with an interest in the representations of different dialects and cultures) may be interested in Dialect in British Fiction, a digital humanities project from the University of Sheffield. This project describes itself as "a database which has been designed as a tool for identifying and analysing the representation of...

Charles Dickens has been credited with everything from radicalizing class consciousness to inventing Christmas. Certainly, he was wildly famous by the standards of his day. This website from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell chronicles Dickens and Massachusetts: A Tale of Power and Transformation, a museum exhibit that ran in Lowell for half a year in 2012. Featuring over a dozen short...

The Dickinson Electronic Archives was one of the first online archival collections. The original Dickinson Electronic Archives was launched in 1994 and was regularly updated until 2012 - the project's new archive collection is referred to as the Dickinson Electronic Archives 2. The site's founder, Martha Nell Smith, is both a leading scholar on Emily Dickinson and the founding director of the...

Although there are many dictionaries of art online and in print, dictionaries of art historians of Western art history are harder to come by. Visitors interested in the lives of art historians will be delighted with Duke University's free online database of historic scholars, museum professionals, and academic historians of art. Duke's Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies' created...

The term Didaskalia is taken from the inscriptions used to record the outcomes of drama and music festivals in ancient Athens, and as such, serves as the name of this rather intriguing website. On the site, visitors will find the group's academic journal, a number of study resources, and an interactive discussion area known (appropriately) as the Agora. The archives of the journal stretch all the...