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Collected below are links to public domain (i.e., not copyright-protected) works in various media. This page is under construction at the moment. Sites open up in a new window. Suggestions are appreciated!

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Quick links: general resources - art & architecture - literature - music - politics - rhetoric & writing

general resources

Archive.org (wide variety of public domain texts, audio, and video)

Bartleby's(public domain books and poetry, encylopedias, dictionaries)

GOOGLE books, video, scholarly works

The Internet Public Library (public domain works for all ages)

LibriVox (audio versions of public domain texts)

The New York Public Library digital collections

Online Book Page at the University of Pennsylvania (public domain texts)

Project Gutenberg(public domain texts)

SafariX Textbooks Online (purchase online access to wide range of textbooks)

SunSITE Digital Collections at UC Berkeley (various specialized collections)

YouTube(videos)

art & architecture

Architecture Students Forum

Modern Painters(includes web version of the classic work by 19th c. critic John Ruskin)

Jumpcut! (articles from the famous film criticism journal)

INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS and ARCHITECTS

Le Corbusier gives a lesson (in French, YouTube)

Wright, Frank Lloyd documentary segment (YouTube)

literature

Collections

Baldwin Online Children's Literature project (public domain texts)

Literature.org, a small but very well-structured collection of etexts, from Aesop to Voltaire, and a good bit of 19th c. American

Renascence Editions, "An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799"

Victorian Web (books, visual arts, periodicals)

INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS

William Blake (works at BlakeArchive.org)

Richard III (works related to Shapespeare's play, and other material)

Walt Whitman

music

INDIVIDUAL COMPOSERS

Varese - "Poeme Electronique." Performed during the universal exhibition of Bruxelles in 1958.

politics

History and Politics Out Loud (audio files)

Oyez.org (Supreme Court arguments in audio)

rhetoric & writing

INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARS

Jack Goody interview (YouTube)