Charles Brockden Brown

This is a minor update: a link on the 1800 Timeline page to a major new site, the Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition.

O.K. Corral

Update to the 1880s page in the Timeline: the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which was for some reason not added earlier. The books I've read on this (including the entertaining but not necessarily factual memoir I Married Wyatt Earp) are of course more detailed than the web site to which I linked on the page, but that site does give a decent overview. The facts of the fight have always been in dispute, and I had wanted perhaps to link to a site maintained by a Clanton descendant, but that site is so noisy that it deterred reading. (Those interested can find it through a simple search on Google.)

Mary Rowlandson

Updates to the Mary Rowlandson bibliography and minor updates to the Wharton Society page, including the About the Society page.

Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins

Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins (author of Megda and Four Girls at Cottage City in the Schomburg Collection of African American Women Writers) is in the news; in an article in the Boston Globe, Holly Jackson (Brandeis) provides evidence that the author was white rather than African American. Several weblogs discuss this discovery, as does Scott McLemee's article in Inside Higher Education. Might Megda be removed from the Schomburg Collection once this is resolved?

New Digital collections

I've made several updates to the queries and bibliography pages at the Crane Society and Wharton Society sites, but the major additions to the American literature site are these on the Sites page:

The New York Public Library, which has the Schomburg Collection of nineteenth-century African American women writers, has just made a number of other digital collections of images available online; it is especially rich in text and images about New York, maps, and African American history.


The Women Working, 1870-1930 archive (Open Collections Program) at Harvard University includes "[d]igitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections that explore women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression." The site provides free, searchable access to the collection's "2,396 books and pamphlets, 1,075 photographs, and 5,000 pages from manuscript collections."