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Humanities Subject Guide
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This is a guide to finding selected
Humanities resources in the Galvin Library. For more in-depth assistance, please contact the subject specialist, or click here to Ask a
Librarian.
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Subject Specialist:
John Dorr
email: dorr@iit.edu
phone: 312.567.3615
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Links to important humanities sites on the World Wide Web, including electronic text collections, historical materials, and more.
Library of Congress
Review: Links to a wide variety of information, documents, and research tools. Sections of interest may include: American Memory and African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection
Making of America Project
Review: From the University of Michigan, this resource includes approximately 650,000 pages of books and journals from the latter part of the 19th century, documenting the social history of America.
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
Review: From the Humanties Research Institute of the University of Sheffield, SCIPER provides a synopsis of material related to science, technology and medicine appearing in sixteen general interest periodicals published in Britain between in the 19th Century. This resource provides a fascinating look at the popular view of science and new technologies in the 19th Century.
History of Race in Science
Review: "RaceSci is for scholars and students concerned with the critical examination of 'race' in science, medicine, and technology. It tracks contemporary racial science, provides a bibliography of scholarship, collects syllabi, and serves as a portal to digital archives and other resources."
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Review: This evolving resource for Philosophy and the History of Science adheres to the highest academic standards and is constantly adapting to new research in the field. Each entry in the SEP is maintained by experts in the field and substantive updates are refereed by the members of an Editorial Board before they are made public. You can cite fixed editions that are created on a quarterly basis and stored in the Archives (every entry contains a link to its complete archival history, identifying the fixed edition the reader should cite). The Table of Contents lists entries that are published or assigned. The Projected Table of Contents also lists entries which are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected.
PhilSci Archive
Review: The PhilSci Archive presents non-peer reviewed preprints related to the philosophy of science. This electronic archive was developed by the Philosophy of Science Association and the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Like all preprint electronic archives, it was created to promote communication in the field by the rapid dissemination of new work.
LabLit.com: The Culture of Science in Fiction & Fact
Review: "LabLit.com is dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture – science, scientists and labs – in fiction, the media and across popular culture." The site contains essays about lab culture and lab-based fiction, but also original science-related short fiction, serialized novels and poetry – LabLit as a literary genre.
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Review: This is the electronic version of the classic 18 volume work The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
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