Clotel

The first African American novel, Clotel was published when its author was still legally a slave. This digital edition presents, for the first time together, the full extant texts of the novel’s four versions, published between 1853 and 1867. Imaged and coded, the fully searchable texts may be read individually or in parallel and are accompanied by generous biographical, critical, and historical commentary as well as line-by-line annotations and textual collation.

Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence

Presents a full-text and searchable edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence and 74 poems in one scholarly edition. These poems were contained within or were a letter in themselves to her sister-in-law, Susan Dickinson. These poems are often contextualized by the letter. The searchable texts are also accompanied by a digitized scan of the holographic manuscript. The database can be searched by full-text, date, manuscript features, and genre. Table of contents allows for viewing related texts (as a “constellation”) to enhance scholarship.  Primary Source.

Herman Melville’s Typee

Provides full-text and digital reproduction access to the many editions and revisions of Herman Melville’s novel Typee – the work that was Melville’s most popular in his lifetime. A fluid text is described as “any literary work that exists in multiple versions due to authorial, editorial, or cultural revision. . . .” Includes scholarly introduction and searching by keyword (searching is case sensitive); supports wild card search features (see “Searching the Text” for full details).

Papers of Alexander Hamilton

Fully searchable text of all known papers by and to Alexander Hamilton between 1768 – 1804 (this collection is complete). Searchable by author or recipient, date, or by the notes from the printed edition. Includes a chronology, index, and scholarly updates since the publication of the print edition.

Papers of Andrew Jackson

Fully searchable text of the papers of Andrew Jackson. Publication of volumes is in progress (usually chronologically) and new volumes are added as available. Searchable by author or recipient, date, or by the notes from the printed edition. Includes a chronology and index.

Papers of John Marshall

Fully searchable text of the papers of John Marshall, including law cases and judicial opinions. Publication of volumes is in progress (usually chronologically) and new volumes are added as available. Searchable by author or recipient, date, or by the notes from the printed edition. Includes a chronology and index

People of the Founding

Enables users to search the various papers and documents contained in the University of Virginia’s Founding Era full-text documents to identify individuals and their connections. Prosopography is the study of groups of people (grouped by gender, occupation, birth year, and other key data points) to study the group itself, not just the individuals. This database enables users to identify connections, patterns, etc. through a keyword search, with limits for gender, birth/death year, occupation, religion, and geographical region to better enable such a prosopographical study. The data is less robust for women, slaves, and Native Americans due to the nature of the historical record, but is still useful for identifying patterns among these groups. References to the primary sources in the Founding Era documents (which Baylor also owns digitally) makes finding the context for the individual very easy. Interactive, visual graphs of connections are provided. Brief biographies are provided for all individuals and the data on each person is presented in the same way so that searches can be more effective. The People of the Founding Era is still a work in progress with information being added regularly.

Selected Papers of John Jay

Fully searchable text of the papers of John Jay. Publication of volumes is in progress (usually chronologically) and new volumes are added as available. Searchable by author or recipient, date, or by the notes from the printed edition. Includes a chronology and index

Web of Science Core Collection

The Baylor Libraries recently acquired additional backfiles for this resource, moving the years of indexed content to 1965 to present for the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index.  Previously, the indexed content was 1970 to present).

Sabin Americana, 1500 – 1926

Indexes and provides full-text access to the majority of items printed about the Western hemisphere (North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean) for the dates covered. Books, newspapers, journals, and pamphlets. Searchable by author, title, keyword, full-text, and subject with limiters for date, language of publication, illustration, holding library of original document, or Sabin collection number. Contents are based on the original print publication which was published over a number of years and increasing narrowed the focus of included items as the work progressed. Sabin is an essential research tool for identifying literary and historically significant publications in and about the “new world” on topics of politics, economics, history, literature, religion, biography, culture, exploration, westward expansion, Native Americans, early American military history, slavery and abolition, and more. Search Sabin Americana alone or in conjunction with a dozen primary source tools using the Artemis Primary Sources search interface. Gale. Primary Source