Books and Literature, Lifetime Learning, U.Va.

Books and Literature

The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

IATH uses information technology as a tool for scholarly humanities research. From this page, you can explore their many projects, including "Mapping the Dalai Lamas," "The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project," "The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson," and more.

Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive

Listen in on William Faulkner at the University of Virginia in 1957 and 1958, during his two terms as U.Va.’s first Writer-in-Residence.

Digital Collections at U.Va.

Search this rich repository of digital resources, including digital texts, images, audio, maps and geospatial data, video, electronic journals and databases, archival finding aids, statistics and social science data and special projects.

Scholars' Lab Digital Resources

Take advantage of the Scholars' geospatial, text, statistical and image resources.

The World of Dante

Use this multimedia research tool to learn more about the Divine Comedy. Included are a gallery, maps, music, timelines and teacher resources.

Early American Fiction Collection (1789-1875)

Access 158 volumes of early American fiction as well as 199 manuscripts and many images.

Mark Twain in His Times

This archive focuses on Mark Twain's works in relation to the time in which he wrote them.

Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture

This multimedia archive offers primary material, essays, a timeline, and more to explore more about this story as an American cultural phenomenon.

The Walt Whitman Archive

This archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that makes Whitman's work accessible. See his published works, manuscripts, biography and correspondence, criticism and pictures and sound.

From Out that Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe

This online exhibit accents the physical exhibition at the Special Collections Library.

Red, White, Blue and Brimstone: New World Literature and the American Millennium

This site makes available numerous texts around the Revelation of the Christian apostle St. John.

Censored: Wielding the Red Pen

This online exhibition draws on books from the U.Va. Libraries that bring up questions around censorship.

The Rossetti Archive: The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

This archive facilitates the scholarly study of Rossetti, a painter, designer, writer and translator in the 19th century in Great Britain. The archive provides access to all of his pictorial and textual works and to a large contextual body of material.