Digital libraries & archives are great ways to view primary sources or full texts without having to travel anywhere. Listed below are a few digital collections of American literary greats.
A Research and Reference Guide (an ongoing project).
"This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics"
"Started in 1994 as a suite of static Web pages, VoS has now been rebuilt as a database that serves content dynamically on the Web."
A guide to novels set in North Carolina, this blog from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has regular posts about new NC novels, and lists of novels and authors.
Website for professor at Washington State University; features timeline, literary movements, and links to information on American writers, including less well-know authors.