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April 05, 2005LOC Releases James Madison Papers
The Library of Congress has released the James Madison Papers to their American Memory Web site: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/madison_papers/ . The collection includes about 12,000 images in about 72,000 digital images. From the front page you can view a Madison timeline (from...
Diary of Captain Cook Available Online
This writeup is dedicated to my friend KB, who rarely e-mails me without tossing around a few "Arrrs" and "Avasts". The National Library of Australia has digitized the Endeavour Journal and made it available online at http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.ms-ms1-t-cd . It's a...
September 22, 2004Biographical Database: Who2
I have seen many almanac reference-type biography resources on the Internet. I have never seen one which bothered to assemble a fact list of actors and famous people who have been attacked by lions. This is your introduction to biographical...
August 11, 2004The Theodore Roosevelt Encyclopedia
Actually they call it the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia, but let's not quibble. What it is, is a CD-ROM that was published to the Web. It's presented in frames at http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/TR%20Web%20Book/Index.html . On the left is the index and on the...
March 16, 2004Shakespeare's, Other Famous Wills Available Online
(Get it? Shakespeare? Will? Prithee? Whee!) The UK National Archives have released a series of Famous Wills -- including William Shakespeare's -- at their DocumentsOnline Web site. The direct link is at http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk/PROB1wills.asp . In addition to Shakespeare other wills...
Continue reading "Shakespeare's, Other Famous Wills Available Online" » January 19, 2004West Virginia University Libraries Create Online Asimov Exhibit
An alumnus of West Virginia University donated his Asimov collection -- which totaled about 600 items including books, games, audio recordings, wall charts, etc. -- to WVU, and the WVU Libraries have put a lot of it into a digital...
Continue reading "West Virginia University Libraries Create Online Asimov Exhibit" » January 05, 2004Several Days In the Life of Lincoln
First of all, let me compliment whoever named this The Lincoln Log; it started my day off right with a good laugh. This project from Brown University includes information from Lincoln Day-by-Day: A Chronology and additions from Lincoln's papers. You...
November 10, 2003Winston Churchill Papers Finally Indexed
Waaaay back in 2000 I mentioned the project to index the papers of Winston Churchill. Guess what? There's an index online and it's available at . There are over 70,000 entries in this index, and they're available through a keyword...
Continue reading "Winston Churchill Papers Finally Indexed" » January 15, 2003Project Gathering Papers of Abraham Lincoln
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln ( http://www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org ) is a project seeking to identify, gather images of, and publish documents written either by or to Abraham Lincoln. The Web site doesn't have any published documents yet (and it's not...
Continue reading "Project Gathering Papers of Abraham Lincoln" » December 03, 2002George Washington Papers Now Online
The University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center has posted more than 17,400 papers from John C. Fitzpatrick's "The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799," at http://etext.virginia.edu/washington/fitzpatrick/ . There are 37 volumes here in addition to two...
January 24, 2001Clinton Materials to be Archived
There is already a site established to archive former US President Bill Clinton's computer materials generated during his tenure in the White House. The site is at http://www.clinton.nara.gov/ . Obviously there's not a lot here right now, though there are...
November 16, 2000LOC Adds Site Dedicated to Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland's 100th birthday was November 14, so the Library of Congress rolled out the Aaron Copland Collection at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml / . The offline collection from which this online collection is derived includes over 400,000 items. However, this Web site...
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