Brown University Databases

Follow these links for the most up-to-date connections to subject-based electronic resources of interest to the Harris Collection; also see Other Internet Resources below.

• Africana Studies
• American Studies
• Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
• Comparative Literature
• English
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• History (American)
• Judaic Studies (Modern)
• Literary Arts
• Modern Culture and Media
• Music
• Public Humanities
• University Archives and Manuscripts
• Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
• Visual Culture (Images)

Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library:

• Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition
• African-American Sheet Music
• Archival and Manuscript Collections
• Carrier’s Addresses
• Lincoln Broadsides Collection
• World War I Sheet Music
• Yiddish Sheet Music

Brown University Library Online Exhibitions:

• Langston Hughes: The Black Bard at 100
  An exhibition at Brown University Library
• Dreams of the Past
  19th-century color lithographic sheet music covers, 1996
• She is More to be Pitied than Censured
  Women, sexuality, and murder in 19th-century America, 1996
• Celebrating Harper
  An exhibition in honor of Michael S. Harper, 1997
• Imamu Amiri Baraka
  An exhibition from the collections of the John Hay Library, 2000
• Leaves of an Hour
  Developing literary and popular culture collections at Brown University Library, 2001
• Carriers’ Addresses in Nineteenth Century America
  Focus on the collections, No.3, 2001
• 40 Years of Burning Deck Press
  An exhibit from the Burning Deck Archives & the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, 2001
• Yiddish Sheet Music
  From the collections of Brown University Library, 2002
• Teaching the Arts of the Book
  Work by students of Walter Feldman 1980-2003, 2003
• Broadway: The American Musical
  An exhibition from the collections of the John Hay Library, 2005

Other Internet Resources

• African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
  The Digital Schomburg; New York Public Library Digital Library Collections
• An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera at the Library of Congress
  Library of Congress American Memory
• America Singing: Nineteenth Century Song Sheets
  Library of Congress American Memory
• The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
  Johns Hopkins University
• Bartleby Library: Great Books Online
  Includes full texts of numerous titles in American literature, including works by T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and Gertrude Stein.
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture
  University of Virginia
• The Harlem Renaissance
  Perspectives in American Literature
• Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
  University of Minnesota
• Book Arts Web
• Center for Book Arts, Inc.
• Arts of the Book Collection
  Yale University