"The titles featured here (by American authors) have had a profound effect on American life, but they are by no means the only influential ones." Orders book by fifty-year intervals and offers scanned versions of each book.
A digital collection and guide maintained by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. Browse by title, author, fiction, poetry, biography and autobiography, and essay.
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Covers: 1850s-. Offers non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, including interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and periodicals such as The Black Panther.
Covers: 1524-1885. Draws together primary source materials on the cultural encounters in the European exploration of and United States expansion into of the North American continent. Contains letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Users can search or browse by year, place, ethnic group, environment, cultural event, flora, fauna, or image.
Covers: 1470 - 1700. Offers page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from the beginning of printing through the 17th century. Fully searchable texts are available for more than 60,000 titles.
"The Feeding America project has created an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. " Hosted at Michigan State University Library.
This University of Washington collection " chronicles by example the history of educational practice and reading, and the changing perceptions of gender, race and class and the role of religion in teaching. Both European and American books from the 18th to the 20th c. are represented in this collection."
Covers: 1500-1900. An archive of books, pamphlets, court records, and manuscript materials consisting of debates on slavery and abolition. Includes records from the American Colonization Society, from Oberlin's Anti-Slavery collection, from the American Missionary Society (Tulane), and records from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, Yale, Oxford, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and other archives.