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Authors I especially like.

Websites I visit for historical research:


Authors I especially like

M. Chandler. Crime fiction. Includes male friendship, male-female friendship, m/m romance, and some f/m romance. My favorite: Shadow of the Templar series. (Fanlore entry for Shadow of the Templar.)

John Christopher. Science fiction. Includes male friendship and family affection. My favorite: Sword of the Spirits trilogy.

Susan Cooper. Fantasy. Includes family affection, male friendship, and male-female friendship. My favorite: The Dark is Rising series. (Fanlore entry for The Dark is Rising.)

Dorothy Dunnett (also here). Historical fiction, historical fantasy, and crime fiction. Includes family affection, male friendship, male romantic friendship, male-female friendship, f/m romance, and passing references to m/m romance. My favorites: The Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolò (Fanlore entry for The Lymond Chronicles.)

Sylvia Engdahl. Science fiction. Includes male friendship, female-male friendship, and f/m romance. My favorite: Children of the Star trilogy.

Manna Francis (also here). Science fiction. Includes family affection, male-female friendship, female friendship, male friendship, m/m romance, and some f/f romance and f/m romance. My favorite: The Administration series.

Diana Gabaldon. Time travel and historical adventure. Includes family affection, female friendship, female-male friendship, and male friendship. My favorite: both her series, Outlander (includes f/m romance) and Lord John (includes m/m romance). (Fanlore entry for Outlander.)

Robert A. Heinlein. Science fiction. Includes male friendship, some female-male friendship, and some f/m romance. My favorite: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Lynn Johnston. Comic-strip narratives set in Canada from 1979 to 2008. Includes family affection, friendship (female-female, female-male, male-male), and f/m romance. My favorite: For Better or For Worse.

Norma Johnston. Historical fiction, suspense, and contemporary realistic fiction. Incudes family affection, female friendship, female-male friendship, male friendship, and f/m romance. My favorite: The Keeping Days series.

Guy Gavriel Kay. Historical fantasy. Includes family affection, male friendship, male romantic friendship, female-male friendship, f/m romance, and passing references to m/m. My favorite: Tigana.

Ursula K. Le Guin. Fantasy. Includes male friendship, female-male friendship, female friendship, and some f/m romance. My favorite: Earthsea series. (Fanlore entry for Ursula K. Le Guin.)

Alistair MacLean. War fiction and thrillers. Includes male friendship and some f/m romance. My favorite: H.M.S. Ulysses.

Susan R. Matthews. Science fiction. Includes family affection, male friendship, male platonic companionship, female-male friendship, and some f/m romance and m/m romance. My favorite: Under Jurisdiction series. (Fanlore entry for Susan R. Matthews.)

Patricia A. McKillip. Fantasy. Includes family affection, male friendship, male platonic companionship, female-male friendship, female friendship, and f/m romance. My favorite: Riddle-Master trilogy.

Naomi Novik. Fantasy and historical fantasy. Includes male friendship, male platonic companionship, female-male friendship, and some f/m romance. My favorite: Temeraire series. (Fanlore entry for Temeraire.)

Lucius Parhelion (also here). Historical romance and historical fantasy romance. Includes family affection, female-male friendship, m/m romance, and f/f romance. My favorite: Hurrah for Hollywood series.

Mary Renault. Historical fiction and historical romance. Includes family affection, male friendship, female-male friendship, m/m romance, and some f/m romance. My favorites: The Last of the Wine and The Persian Boy. (Fanlore entry for Mary Renault.)

Rolf and Ranger. Western (contemporary), adventure, historical fiction, romance, and paranormal fiction. Includes family affection, male friendship, and m/m romance. And that's all in one series: Falls Chance Ranch.

Dorothy L. Sayers. Mysteries and historical drama. Includes family affection, male friendship, and f/m romance. My favorite: Gaudy Night. (Fanlore entry for Dorothy L. Sayers.)

Mary Stewart. Historical fantasy and contemporary suspense. Includes family affection, female friendship, male friendship, and f/m romance. My favorites: Merlin trilogy (historical fantasy) and Touch Not the Cat (romantic suspense with a touch of historical fiction).

Rosemary Sutcliff. Historical fiction, mainly set in Britain during the Roman era. Includes family affection, male friendship, male platonic companionship, male-female friendship, and some f/m romance. My favorite: The Eagle of the Ninth series. (Fanlore entry for Rosemary Sutcliff.)

G. B. Trudeau. Comic-strip narratives set in the USA from 1970 to the present. Includes family affection, friendship (female-female, female-male, male-male), and romance (mainly f/m). My favorite: Doonesbury.

Megan Whalen Turner. Historical fantasy with a setting similar to the eastern Mediterranean. Includes family affection, male friendship, male platonic companionship, and f/m romance. My favorite: Queen's Thief series.

Philip Turner. Adventure novels set in England during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes family affection and male friendship. My favorite: Darnley Mills series.

Robb White: Twentieth-century adventure fiction, especially World War II naval novels. (Mr. White served in the United States Navy during World War II.) Includes male friendship. My favorite: Silent Ship, Silent Sea.


Websites I visit for historical research

This is a sample of the places I go online in order to do historical research. If you're doing research, you might find some of them helpful.

See also Chronicles of the Great Peninsula bibliography and Turn-of-the-Century Toughs bibliographies.

* The links that are starred require subscriptions, access through a participating library, or disability access. Be sure to check the websites of any libraries you belong to, in order to see what electronic resources they offer you access to.


GENERAL

Digital Public Library of America.

Internet Archive.

Library of Congress: Digital Collections.

Smithsonian Institution.


BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Diary Find Website.

Oxford Bibliographies.


BOOKS AND BOOK CATALOGS

* Bookshare. For print-disabled readers. See also the list of its participating publishers.

Google Books: Advanced Book Search.

HathiTrust Digital Library.

* Internet Archive: Books for People with Print Disabilities. This is an expanded version of the books available to the general public through Internet Archive and Open Library.

Library of Congress: Catalog.

The Online Books Page.

* Oxford Reference.

Open Library.

Project Gutenberg.

Trove.

WorldCat.


FILMS

AP Archive.

Fox Movietone News Collection.

* Kanopy. Documentaries.


GATEWAYS

Cyndi's List.

E-Resources Online Catalog.

Internet Scout.


IMAGES

The Commons.

Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs.

Smithsonian Open Access.

Wellcome Collection.


LANGUAGE

Google Ngram Viewer. Charts how popular words and phrases were in the past.

Green's Dictionary of Slang.

* Oxford English Dictionary.

Oxford English Dictionary Text Visualizer. Shows visually when words in any passage first occurred in literature.


MAPS

David Rumsey Map Collection.

Historic Map Works.

Old Maps Online. See also the list of its participating members.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.

USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer.


NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

* Accessible Archives.

* American Periodicals.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.

Google News Archive.

* Historical Black Newspapers.

* Historical Newspapers.

* NewspaperARCHIVE.

* Newspapers.com.

* Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers.

Old Fulton historical newspapers.

United States Online Historical Newspapers.

HathiTrust Periodical Collections:


SCHOLARSHIP

Academia.

H-Net. Online forums for scholars, such as historians.

JSTOR. Journals and books. See also how to get access.

Open Dissertations.


SEARCH ENGINES

BASE: Bielefield Academic Search Engine.

Elephind.com. Historical newspapers.

Google Scholar.

Internet Archive Scholar.


STORE CATALOGUES

Catalogs and Wishbooks.

HathiTrust: Commercial Catalogs.

Internet Archive: Catalogs Collection and Catalogs Inbox.

WishbookWeb.


TOPIC: Daily Life

* Daily Life Through History. The electronic database version of the Greenwood Press "Daily Life Through History" book series.

Early Office Museum.

HEARTH: Home Economics Archive.

ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World. Calculate how long it took to travel from one location to another.

Prices and Wages by Decade. See also the Consumer Price Index Inflation Calculator.


TOPIC: Genre Fiction

Galactic Central. Magazine fiction indexes.

Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database.

Science Fiction Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia of Fantasy.

Ultimate Guides. Encyclopedias of mystery/detective, romance, science fiction, and westerns.


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