- Through the generosity of Winona State University, HarpWeek: The Civil War Years (1857-1865) is now available. HarpWeek is an electronic full text version of Harper's Weekly, in which many American writers first published.
Individual Authors:
- A Modell of Christian Charity (1630) by John Winthrop is available in electronic format from the Hanover Historical Texts Project at Hanover College.
- International Outreach, Inc. maintains a site of electronic versions of the revival sermons of Jonathan Edwards preached during the period of the Great Awakening at the site Revival Sermons of Jonathan Edwards.
- The University of Virginia has gathered and digitized almost 1,700 letters, papers, and documents of Thomas Jefferson at its website Texts by Jefferson in the Modern English Collection.
- The works of Thomas Paine are well-represented on the WWW through the Online Thomas Paine Library; online texts include Common Sense, The Age of Reason and The American Crisis.
- Biographical information on Washington Irving is available from the University of Virginia's page Washington Irving. A number of his works are available from Project Gutenberg -- Washington Irving.
- Dedicated to spreading interest in the life and works of James Fenimore Cooper, the James Fenimore Cooper Society offers information on its activities and related biographical and bibliographical information on Cooper. A number of his works are available from Project Gutenberg -- James Fenimore Cooper
- Information about the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe is available from the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. Especially useful articles concerning the reason for Poe's death and his literary testament. Poe's works in electronic format can be found at Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe., which includes prose and poetry.
- General information on the life and works of Henry David Thoreau are available from the Walden Society. Complete electronic versions of Civil Disobedience, Walden and Walking are available at Project Gutenberg -- Henry David Thoreau. The Writings of Henry Thoreau--from Northern Illinios University " provides, for the first time, accurate texts of Thoreau's complete works: his writings for publication, his Journal, his correspondence, and other uncollected papers. Much of the material in this edition has never been published before."
- The Whitman Project at the University of Virginia is in the process of creating an inclusive site for the works of Walt Whitman through their Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive. The Archive contains biographical materials, notebooks and letters, manuscripts and reviews of Whitman's works, as well as the works themselves in electronic format.
- Prof. Stephen Railton and his students have gathered excellent biographical and critical sources on Mark Twain at their site Mark Twain in His Times available from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. Twain's major works are available in electronic format from Project Gutenberg -- Mark Twain
- William Dean Howells is represented on the WWW through the William Dean Howells Society at Gonzaga University, which provides interesting biographical and critical data on Howells' writing. Selected works by Howells, including The Rise of Silas Latham are available in electronic format at Project Gutenberg -- William Dean Howells
- A fine collection of sites for criticism, texts and other resources on the life and work of Henry James are available at The Henry James Scholar's Guide to WWW Resources. Electronic versions of many of his work are available from Project Gutenberg -- Henry James.
- Electronic versions of the works of Theodore Dreiser are available from Project Gutenberg -- Theodore Dreiser. This site contains versions of The Financier and Sister Carrie.
- The University of California, Berkeley has created a superb site for the complete works of Jack London in its Jack London Collection. The site also contains biography, audio and video files, documents, images and research aids. A unique site for London students and scholars.
- Two of the short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald available in electronic format are Bernice Bobs her Hair and May Day.
- Biographical information and bibliographies of the works of Ernest Hemingway are available from The Hemingway Resource Center, maintained by the Lost Generation Bookstore.
- Information and links of interest to students and scholars of the life and work of Edith Wharton are available from the Edith Wharton Society, based at Gonzaga University.
- Background information on Willa Cather (a short biography and links to other pages) as well as full text versions of articles and short stories can be found at the Willa Cather Page hosted by Harvard University.
- Biographical information and critical articles on the life and works of Sinclair Lewis are available from the Sinclair Lewis Homepage at Illinois State University.
- Biographical and chronological information on the life of William Faulkner, as well as criticism of his works and links to sites concerning his writings, is available from the William Faulkner on the Web site, maintained at the University of Mississippi.
- Criticism of the writings of Katherine Anne Porter and a bibliography of her published works is available at The Katherine Anne Porter Library, maintained by the University of Maryland Library.
- Biographical information and a bibliography of the published works of Eudora Welty is available in The Eudora Welty Newsletter, published at Georgia State University.
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