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Website of the Week (WoW) #197: Academia Mexicana de la Lengua.
Includes dictionaries and other reference works, audio and video interviews, a news feed, and access to the alpha version of CorDiAm (Corpus Diacrónico y Diatópico del Español de América), an online archive of transcriptions and critical editions of materials written in the Americas during the 15th to the 19th centuries..
Academia Mexicana de la Lengua
www.academia.org.mx
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Includes dictionaries and other reference works, audio and video interviews, a news feed, and access to the alpha version of CorDiAm (Corpus Diacrónico y Diatópico del Español de América), an online archive of transcriptions and critical editions of materials written in the Americas during the 15th to the 19th centuries.
Website of the Week (WoW) #196: glbtq: The Online Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture
Web site devoted to GLBTQ education and culture includes a comprehensive encyclopedia of glbtq culture, discussion boards, and other features.
glbtq: the world’s largest encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture
www.glbtq.com
Congratulations to activist and political operative David Mixner. His one-man play, Oh Hell No!, earned a warm audience response in New York in October 2014 and is to open on June 11, 2015 in Los Angeles. In addition, on May 31, 2015, Mixner was awarded an honorary Doctor of Public Service by Washin…
Web site devoted to GLBTQ education and culture includes a comprehensive encyclopedia of glbtq culture, discussion boards, and other features.
195. Website of the Week (WoW) #195: The Map of Early Modern London
“[C]omprised of four distinct, interoperable projects: a digital edition of the 1561 Agas woodcut map of London; an Encyclopedia and Descriptive Gazetteer of London people, places, topics, and terms; a Library of marked-up texts rich in London toponyms; and a versioned edition of John Stow’s Survey of London.”
MoEML: The Map of Early Modern London
mapoflondon.uvic.ca
The Map of Early Modern London comprises four distinct, interoperable projects. MoEML began in 1999 as a digital atlas of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London based on the 1560s Agas woodcut map of the city. MoEML now includes an encyclopedia of early modern London people and places, a library…
“[C]omprised of four distinct, interoperable projects: a digital edition of the 1561 Agas woodcut map of London; an Encyclopedia and Descriptive Gazetteer of London people, places, topics, and terms; a Library of marked-up texts rich in London toponyms; and a versioned edition of John Stow’s Survey of London.”
Website of the Week (WoW) #194: Glottolog
An initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Glottolog links researchers to resources on the world’s languages, language families and dialects.
Glottolog 2.4 –
glottolog.org
Information about the different languages, dialects, and families of the world (‘languoids’) is available in the Languages and Families sections. The References section contains bibliographical information. You can query the bibliographical database by filtering the table view or using a complex que…
Website of the Week (WoW) #194: Glottolog
An initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Glottolog links researchers to resources on the world’s languages, language families and dialects.
193. Website of the Week (WoW) #193: The African Women in the Cinema Project
Site includes a Primer for African Women Cinema Studies, timeline, related links, and “voices” of African women in cinema from diverse sources.
http://www.africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/Introduction.html
Introduction
www.africanwomenincinema.org
The African Women in the Cinema Project emerged out of my research on African women in visual culture, my desire to find a paradigm for reading images of and by African women, and my own work in videography and as a performance artist. I undertook this project on a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship…
Site includes a Primer for African Women Cinema Studies, timeline, related links, and “voices” of African women in cinema from diverse sources.
http://www.africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/Introduction.html
Website of the Week (WoW) #192: Searchable Sea Literature
Site contains peer-reviewed biographies as well as related audio and video on American authors of “works in which oceans, large rivers, or expansive lakes are critical to the story.”
It also contains a link to a “Searchable Sea Literature Google Books Library,” under construction.
http://sites.williams.edu/searchablesealit/
Searchable Sea Literature
sites.williams.edu
Welcome to Searchable Sea Literature, which is devoted to works by American authors, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays. ‘Literature of the sea’ or ‘maritime literature’ is here loosely defined as works in which oceans, large rivers, or expansive lakes are critical to the story. This l…
Site contains peer-reviewed biographies as well as related audio and video on American authors of “works in which oceans, large rivers, or expansive lakes are critical to the story.”
It also contains a link to a “Searchable Sea Literature Google Books Library,” under construction.
http://sites.williams.edu/searchablesealit/
Website of the Week (WoW) #191: The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
Website includes bibliographies of writings by and about Emerson and links to digital texts.
http://emerson.tamu.edu/digital-texts
Digital Texts | The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
emerson.tamu.edu
Various interpretive sites are available: Eugene Irey’s concordance to the 1903-1904 Centenary Edition of Emerson’s Works is available at the Concord Free Public Library page. The concordance to The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson is found on our legacy site: here. The textual notes to The Lat…
Website includes bibliographies of writings by and about Emerson and links to digital texts.
http://emerson.tamu.edu/digital-texts
Digital Texts | The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
emerson.tamu.edu
Various interpretive sites are available: Eugene Irey’s concordance to the 1903-1904 Centenary Edition of Emerson’s Works is available at the Concord Free Public Library page. The concordance to The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson is found on our legacy site: here. The textual notes to The Lat…
Website of the Week (WoW) #190: Deepening Histories of Place: Exploring Indigenous Landscapes of National and International Significance
Australian digital history project adopts “innovative models for multi-vocal Indigenous and landscape-focused histories” in order to “render some of the deeper layers of Australia’s history more accessible to the public.”
http://www.deepeninghistories.anu.edu.au/
Home – Deepening Histories of Place Project – ANU
www.deepeninghistories.anu.edu.au
The Deepening Histories of Place ARC Linkage Project, Julia Torpey and Karen Maber officially launched ‘At the Heart of It … Place stories across Darug and Gundungurra Lands: A Downloadable History’ on Saturday 9 November.
Website of the Week (WoW) #190: Deepening Histories of Place: Exploring Indigenous Landscapes of National and International Significance
Australian digital history project adopts “innovative models for multi-vocal Indigenous and landscape-focused histories” in order to “render some of the deeper layers of Australia’s history more accessible to the public.”
http://www.deepeninghistories.anu.edu.au/
Home – Deepening Histories of Place Project – ANU
www.deepeninghistories.anu.edu.au
The Deepening Histories of Place ARC Linkage Project, Julia Torpey and Karen Maber officially launched ‘At the Heart of It … Place stories across Darug and Gundungurra Lands: A Downloadable History’ on Saturday 9 November.
Website of the Week (WoW) #189: CormacMcCarthy.com
The official Web site of the Cormac McCarthy Society includes a biography, synopses, a link to the Cormac McCarthy Journal, links to bibliographies in several languages, several forums, and other resources.
http://www.cormacmccarthy.com/
CormacMcCarthy.com | The Official Web Site of the Cormac McCarthy Society
www.cormacmccarthy.com
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Cormac McCarthy’s first novel, The Orchard Keeper. To celebrate this milestone, The Cormac McCarthy Society and the Department of English at The University of Memphis will co-sponsor a conference devoted to McCarthy’s work.
The official Web site of the Cormac McCarthy Society includes a biography, synopses, a link to the Cormac McCarthy Journal, links to bibliographies in several languages, several forums, and other resources.
Website of the Week (WoW) #188: BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History
Short articles, written and reviewed by scholars, covering a variety of topics related to Britain and its colonies during the 19th century.
http://www.branchcollective.org/
BRANCH
www.branchcollective.org
This site, which is intertwined with Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, provides users with a free, expansive, searchable, reliable, peer-reviewed, copy-edited, easy-to-use overview of the period 1775-1925. Unlike dry chronologies that simply list dates with minimal information about the many…
Short articles, written and reviewed by scholars, covering a variety of topics related to Britain and its colonies during the 19th century.