Research source about DeTocqueville's classic text on the American experiment with democracy and the era in which he travelled and wrote. Among the subcollections of this site with electronic texts of interest is Women in America, 1820-1842 . Parts of this archive of writings by and about Emily Dickinson and her family are restricted. As of January 2001, nearly 800 books in HTML and SGML formats, including illustrations of parts of each work such as the cover and title page. Electronic versions in HTML format of speeches by Frederick Douglass and others from the 17th through the 20th centuries.
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A site-search engine is available. Among the authors whose rare first-edition works are represented are James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe and some women authors. Many of these same products were available in Canada. Selected works by this American social activist and anarchist, as well as scholarly resources. Works can be searched a variety of ways, or listed by author or title.