Oxford English Dictionary
Citing Sources A link to MLA style sheet and MIT style manual.
Searchable Bible Use the King James Version for both Melville and Morrison.
Making of America Nineteenth-century American books and periodicals.
Image Search
Perspectives on American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
American Authors (Gonzaga)
MIT Libraries American Literature Course Page A source for online materials and advice about research.
Africana Gateway to the Black World.
Bullfinch's Mythology
African American Odyssey/Library of Congress Herman Melville
Digital Moby-Dick Online text, useful for searches. Not always accurate, though.
The Town-Ho's Story Original publication in Harper's Magazine.
Making of America Find first printings of Melville's stories.
Melville Society
Selected Bibliography on Moby-Dick From the Gonzaga American Authors site.
"Amistad" case Mystic Seaport site on one possible source for "Benito Cereno".
University of Massachusetts Site on Lowell Mill Girls Historical analogue to Melville's paper mill in "Tartarus of Maids".
Information on Cinque, leader of the Amistad revolt
Text of "Benito Cereno" with maps and other information
University of Virginia - Confidence-Man site Text and notes; some images. Toni Morrison
Anniina's Morrison Page
Toni Morrison Resources
Schomburg Collection
News on Love
Picasso's "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon"
Harlem Renaissance TimeLine
Paradise Timeline, genealogy, discussion questions.
Missing Peace in Toni Morrison's Sula and Beloved" by Rachel Lee On an "aesthetic of ambiguity."
Jazz and The City
History, Gender, and The South in Jazz
Identity in Jazz Harlem Renaissance
Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance