Focus on Electronic Information No. 98-05 Date: May 1998 Subject: Full-Text Electronic Books in American Studies Collection The University of Virginia is providing online access to the full-text versions of a wide variety of texts in American literature and history. Most have hypertext links to additional resources, and many have search utilities, accompanying critical material, and fully developed projects that place the central text in cultural contexts. Texts now available include: The Education of Henry Adams; Wieland; The Red Badge of Courage; Letters from an American Farmer; Dickens's American Notes; Emerson's Representative Men; Sister Carrie; Uncle Remus; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Studies in Classic American Literature; The Journals of Lewis and Clark (abridged); Melville's The Confidence Man; The Oregon Trail; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Walden; Turner's The Frontier in American History; Twain's Connecticut Yankee, Huckleberry Finn, Innocents Abroad, and Tom Sawyer; and Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class. In addition, the texts of Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land: The West as Symbol and Myth and of Alexis deTocqueville's Democracy in America are presented with extensive hypertext construction. American Studies Hypertexts at the University of Virginia http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html