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Celebrating and documenting the creativity of Asian, Black, Latina, and Native women, VG is one of the internet's most comprehensive and well-respected academic databases for women artists of color. We provide innovative teaching and research tools for accessing a global community of women writers of color living and dead, obscure and renowned. The site reaches backward and forward to place readers, thinkers, students, and educators on a bridge which connects the gaps that exist in literature, society, and culture. Through our student-generated profiles, essays, reviews, and interviews, you can engage with artists whose works put faces on difficult and important issues ranging from immigration to racial prejudice, gendered violence to community resistance.

The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature (ITHL) was founded in 1962 to acquaint foreign readers with the best of modern Hebrew literature.

an archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work. Sonnets are grouped by period below and can also be accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors or the java navigation page. All of the sonnets included here (as well as most of those that are linked) are modernized texts for the general reader and are not presented for purposes of scholarly work

The Germanic Lexicon Project (formerly the Indo-European Language resources page) is an online collection of lexicons of the early Germanic languages. The Web site provides free access to an impressive number of copyright-expired language reference publications related to these language, either as digitized texts (encoded using HTML or XML) or as scanned page images. The project is ongoing, and the site's author invites users to participate in the digitization process by correcting individual pages (full instructions on how to participate are provided): consequently, the project is developing into an important international collaboration. The grammars, dictionaries, glossaries and readers available at the time of cataloguing, in various forms, covered the following languages: Gothic; Anglo-Saxon; Old and Middle High German; Old Saxon, Old Frisian; and Old Norse. Resources for the linguistic study of Latin, Old Irish and Tocharian are also available. Background information for each publ

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy®-nominated and award-winning children's literacy website, Storyline Online®, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children's books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Kristen Bell, Rita Moreno, Viola Davis, Jaime Camil, Kevin Costner, Lily Tomlin, Sarah Silverman, Betty White, Wanda Sykes and dozens more.

The website of the Scottish Poetry Library (SPL) allows serious students, regular readers, and casual browsers access to contemporary poetry written in Scotland - in Scots, Gaelic, or English -- historic Scottish verse and poetry from most parts of the world. Contained here is an online catalogue (INSPIRE) of SPL resources, which includes books, periodicals, audio and video recordings and news cuttings, and the Scottish Poetry Index that allows users to search via author, title and subject for poetry material in twenty Scottish magazines from 1952

The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is an ongoing international project to build a detailed comic-book database that will be easy to use and understand, and also easy for contributors to add information to it. This fully searchable and sortable database includes information on creator credits, story details, and other information useful to the comic-book reader, fan, collector, and scholar."

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