Hunter V. McClure

Libraries & Archives

• SLUM: The Shadow Library Uptime MonitorTracks the availability of shadow library mirrors in real time.
• Open LibraryInternet Archive’s open catalogue of books, many available to borrow online.
• Shadow LibrariesOverview and directory of shadow library resources.
• textz.comFree texts in philosophy, theory, and critical thought.
• Project GutenbergOver 70,000 public domain books freely available online.
• Library of CongressThe national library of the United States; extensive digital collections.
• Sci-HubFree access to academic papers and journals.
• Marxist Internet ArchiveExtensive archive of Marxist and socialist texts.
• The Anarchist LibraryArchive of anarchist and libertarian socialist writings.
• MonoskopWiki and resource for art, culture, and media studies.
• Z-LibraryLarge shadow library of books and articles.
• St. John’s College Digital ArchivesDigitized materials from St. John’s College collections.
• SJC Meem Library CatalogThe library catalog for St. John’s College, Santa Fe.
• Books by JohnniesWorks published by St. John’s College alumni and faculty.
• JSTORDigital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
• Oxford English DictionaryThe definitive historical dictionary of the English language.
• EtymonlineOnline Etymology Dictionary — the history of English words.
• Johnson’s DictionaryFull text of Samuel Johnson’s 1755 dictionary, searchable online.
• LibraryThingCatalogue and community site for personal libraries.
• National Security ArchiveDeclassified government documents obtained through FOIA requests.
• UbuWebFree archive of avant-garde film, sound, and text.
• Wayback MachineInternet Archive’s snapshot service — the memory of the web.
• Whole Earth IndexArchive of the Whole Earth Catalog and related publications.
• Napoleonic GuideComprehensive reference on the Napoleonic Wars: battles, biographies, and primary sources.
• Sir Thomas Browne LibraryCollected works of the seventeenth-century physician and prose stylist Sir Thomas Browne.
• The Diary of Samuel PepysThe complete diary of Samuel Pepys, published daily as it was written, with annotations.
• The Victorian WebWide-ranging scholarly resource on Victorian literature, history, art, and culture.
• Chinese Text ProjectDigital library of pre-modern Chinese texts with tools for searching and cross-referencing.
• Access to InsightTheravada Buddhist texts, teachings, and resources.
• MDBG Chinese DictionaryFree online Chinese-English dictionary.
• Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryThe standard reference Sanskrit-English dictionary, online.
• The Gnosis ArchiveGnostic scriptures, texts, and resources on Western esoteric traditions.
• The Alchemy Web SiteExtensive archive of alchemical texts and imagery.
• Sacred Text ArchiveLarge free archive of religious and spiritual texts from around the world.

Philosophy

General Reference

• Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyAuthoritative, peer-reviewed encyclopedia of philosophy.
• Internet Encyclopedia of PhilosophyFree, peer-reviewed encyclopedia of philosophy and philosophers.
• Philosophy Documentation CenterPublisher and archive of philosophy journals and reference works.
• Philosophy PagesReference site covering philosophers, terms, and major texts.
• The Philosophy Teaching LibraryNotre Dame’s teaching library for philosophy texts and resources.
• The Gifford LecturesArchive of the prestigious Gifford Lectures on natural theology.

Strauss and Straussians

• The Leo Strauss CenterArchives of Strauss’s lecture transcripts and related materials at Chicago.
• The Benardete ArchiveWorks and lectures of Seth Benardete, classical scholar and philosopher.
• George Anastaplo’s BlogWritings by the Straussian legal philosopher George Anastaplo.
• Contemporary ThinkersEssays and resources on major contemporary philosophers.
• Great ThinkersA guide to the history of political philosophy.
• Interpretation — A Journal of Political PhilosophyScholarly journal in the Straussian tradition of political philosophy.
• European Journal of Political PhilosophyScholarly journal of political philosophy in the Straussian tradition, published in Europe.
• Political Science ReviewerLong-running journal of political philosophy and constitutional thought.
• Claremont Review of BooksQuarterly review of politics, statesmanship, and culture from the Claremont Institute.

Ancient and Medieval

• Plato and His DialoguesBernard Suzanne’s study of the structure of Plato’s dialogues.
• The Dramatic Order of Plato’s DialoguesOverview of scholarly views on the ordering and dating of Plato’s works.
• Aristotle WebsiteResources and texts related to Aristotle’s philosophy.
• Ancient Commentators on AristotleProject translating Greek and Latin commentaries on Aristotle into English.
• Clarendon Aristotle SeriesOxford’s scholarly translations of Aristotle with detailed philosophical commentary.
• Stoics.comResources on Stoic philosophy.
• Freddoso’s Summa TheologiaeAlfred Freddoso’s new translation of Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae.
• Aquinas.ccLatin-English parallel editions of Aquinas’s complete works.
• Corpus ThomisticumThe complete works of Aquinas in Latin, with Roberto Busa’s Index Thomisticus concordance.
• The Logic MuseumTranslations and Latin texts of medieval logic and metaphysics — Buridan, Ockham, Scotus, and others.

Early Modern and Enlightenment

• Early Modern TextsJonathan Bennett’s modernized English translations of major early modern philosophical texts.
• The Spinoza WebErasmus University’s scholarly portal for Spinoza, including texts, manuscripts, and research apparatus.
• Hume Texts OnlinePeter Millican’s edition of Hume’s complete works with apparatus and variants.
• Sir BaconWide-ranging archive of biographical and primary documents on Francis Bacon.
• The Encyclopédie Collaborative Translation ProjectCollaborative English translation of Diderot and d’Alembert’s French Encyclopédie.
• Electronic EnlightenmentEnlightenment correspondence, linking letters across figures and nations.

German Idealism and the Nineteenth Century

• Kant on the WebStephen Palmquist’s long-running encyclopedic Kant resource, maintained since the mid-1990s.
• Kant’s Critique of Pure ReasonOnline resources for studying Kant’s first Critique.
• Hegel.netPortal for Hegel scholarship and resources.
• Notes on the Phenomenology of SpiritA close reading and annotation of Hegel’s Phenomenology.
• Science of Logic MapVisual map of the structure of Hegel’s Science of Logic.
• Kierkegaard.orgKierkegaard texts, biography, and resources.
• The Nietzsche ChannelTexts, letters, and secondary literature on Nietzsche.

Twentieth Century and Continental

• Heidegger WebsiteResources on Heidegger’s thought, including texts and bibliography.
• Existential PrimerIntroduction to existentialist and phenomenological philosophy.
• foucault.infoArchive of Foucault’s texts, interviews, and secondary literature.
• Panagiotis KondylisSite dedicated to the work of the Greek-German political philosopher.
• Encyclopedia of PsychoanalysisLacanian psychoanalytic concepts and terms.
• TelosQuarterly journal of critical theory and political thought, founded 1968.

Political Thought and the American Founding

• Online Library of LibertyLiberty Fund’s free digital archive of classical liberal thought.
• Founders’ ConstitutionDocumentary collection on the Constitutional founding, edited by Kurland and Lerner.
• Avalon ProjectYale Law School’s digital library of law and diplomacy documents.
• Constitution SocietyResources on constitutional history and political theory.
• Natural Law, Natural Rights and American ConstitutionalismResource site on natural law theory and American founding.
• Founders OnlineNational Archives’ searchable edition of the papers of the American founders.
• The History of Economic ThoughtEncyclopedic coverage of economic thought from antiquity to the present.

Classics

General and Reference

• Perseus Digital LibraryThe essential digital library for Greek and Latin texts with morphological tools.
• The Internet Classics Archive441 classical texts in translation, freely available.
• LOGEIONChicago’s combined Greek and Latin lexicon lookup tool.
• Loeb Classical LibraryGreek and Latin texts with facing English translations. Via Meem Library proxy.
• Bibliotheca AugustanaDigital library of texts in Latin, Greek, and other ancient and medieval languages.
• AttalusTranslations and resources for ancient Greek and Roman history.
• Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of RhetoricComprehensive guide to classical and Renaissance rhetoric and figures of speech.

Greek

• Thesaurus Linguae GraecaeComprehensive digital library of ancient Greek texts from Homer to 1453 CE.
• Ancient-Greece.orgReference site for ancient Greek history, geography, and culture.
• Theoi Greek MythologyAaron Atsma’s encyclopedic personal site cataloging Greek myth and its tragic sources.
• A Digital Tutorial for Ancient GreekOnline supplement to Chase and Phillips’ Greek grammar.

Latin

• The Latin LibraryLarge collection of Latin texts from antiquity through the Renaissance.
• Encyclopaedia RomanaJames Grout’s thorough encyclopaedia of Roman history and culture.
• LacusCurtius — A Gateway to Ancient RomeExtensive collection of Roman texts, maps, and reference works.
• Corpus CorporumRepository of Latin texts from antiquity to the modern era, hosted at Zürich.

Language Instruction

• Ancient Language InstituteIntensive instruction in ancient Greek and Latin.
• Textkit Greek and LatinFree classical language learning resources, grammars, and texts.

Literature

• Open Source ShakespeareEric Johnson’s complete Shakespeare with concordance and search by character or play.
• Shakespeare’s WordsDavid and Ben Crystal’s glossary and language tool for difficult Shakespearean vocabulary.
• The John Milton Reading RoomThomas H. Luxon's Dartmouth-based edition of Milton's complete poetry and selected prose, hyperlinked and annotated, with translations of the Latin verse. A collaboration between Luxon and his students dating back to 1997.
• Darkness VisibleA study resource for Paradise Lost produced by members of Christ's College, Cambridge — Milton's own college — for the 2008 quatercentenary and revised in 2024 for the 350th anniversary of his death.
• The Cantos ProjectRoxana Preda’s annotated guide to Pound’s Cantos, with sources and apparatus.
• Borges CenterDaniel Balderston’s Pittsburgh-based portal for Borges scholarship.
• The Walt Whitman ArchiveFolsom and Price’s comprehensive digital edition of Whitman’s works and manuscripts.
• The William Blake ArchiveThe standard digital edition of Blake’s illuminated works, manuscripts, and prose.
• LanguagehatSteven Dodson’s long-running blog on language, literature, and translation.

Islam & Arabic

• Semitic Roots RepositoryDatabase of Proto-Semitic roots and cognates across Semitic languages.
• Quran BrowserSide-by-side Quranic text with multiple translations.
• Quran.comArabic text with translations, transliterations, and recitations.
• Quranic Arabic CorpusMorphological annotation and syntactic treebank of the entire Quran.
• Quranic Root Words — Kuran.WikiList of all root words in the Quran with frequency and occurrences.
• Aratools Arabic-English DictionarySearchable Arabic-English dictionary with root and pattern analysis.
• Living Arabic ProjectComprehensive dictionary of Modern Standard and dialectal Arabic.
• Altafsir.comThe largest online repository of classical Quranic exegesis, hosted by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute.
• Tafsir Al-Mizan‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s philosophical exegesis of the Quran in English translation.
• Sunnah.comSearchable collection of hadith from the major collections.
• Hadith CollectionSearchable hadith collections with alternative indexing to Sunnah.com.
• Muhammad Asad’s QuranMuhammad Asad’s acclaimed translation and commentary, The Message of the Qur’an.
• Lane’s LexiconEdward Lane’s monumental Arabic-English lexicon, digitized and searchable.
• Brock’s Quran ReaderAn interlinear Quran reader designed for close linguistic study.
• Islamic Philosophy OnlineTexts and translations of medieval Islamic philosophers — al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali, Ibn Rushd, and others.

Judaism & Christianity

• BibleGatewayBible in dozens of translations, with search and parallel reading tools.
• STEP BibleTyndale House’s Bible research tool with original-language morphology and lexicons.
• Catena Bible and CommentariesScripture with linked patristic and medieval commentaries in catena form.
• Early Jewish LibraryTexts from the Second Temple period including Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and Dead Sea Scrolls.
• SefariaLiving library of Jewish texts — Torah, Talmud, midrash, and more — in Hebrew and English.
• Mechon MamreHebrew Bible and Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah in Hebrew with English translations.
• Soncino Babylonian TalmudThe classic Soncino English translation of the Babylonian Talmud, freely available.
• Full Zohar OnlineComplete text of the Zohar in Aramaic with English translation.
• Early Christian LibraryCollection of early Christian texts from the first four centuries.
• Tertullian.orgRoger Pearse’s collection of patristic texts, particularly strong on lesser-known Latin and Syriac fathers.
• Christian Classics Ethereal LibraryDigitized library of classic Christian texts.
• New AdventCatholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, and other Catholic reference works.
• Documenta Catholica OmniaVast collection of Catholic theological and ecclesiastical documents.
• Project CanterburyArchive of Anglican historical and theological texts.
• The Newman ReaderComplete works of John Henry Newman, with biographical and bibliographical resources.
• ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval StudiesReference resources for medieval studies including primary texts and encyclopedia entries.
• Bible ResearcherMichael Marlowe's deep, opinionated archive on the history of Bible translation, including the Tyndale and Geneva Bibles, the Reformers on translation, and the textual debates that shaped the vernacular Scriptures.
• The Acts and Monuments OnlineThe Sheffield variorum of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, encompassing the 1563, 1570, 1576, and 1583 editions with full apparatus.
• Project WittenbergConcordia Theological Seminary's longstanding electronic archive of Luther and the Lutheran tradition in English and German, including the Ninety-Five Theses, the catechisms, the Book of Concord, and selected Melanchthon.
• Post-Reformation Digital LibraryA curated bibliography linking digitized primary sources for early modern theology and philosophy (late 15th–18th centuries) across hundreds of authors, hosted by the Meeter Center for Calvin Studies.
• The Jonathan Edwards Center at YaleYale's authoritative Edwards project, including The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online: the full Yale critical edition along with thousands of pages of unpublished sermons, notebooks, and manuscripts in searchable transcription.
• The Wesley Center OnlineNorthwest Nazarene University's archive of John and Charles Wesley, including the 1872 Jackson edition of Wesley's sermons, the Journal, and A Christian Library in thirty volumes, alongside a substantial collection of Holiness movement sources.
• The Joseph Smith PapersThe complete, definitive scholarly edition of every extant Joseph Smith document — journals, revelations, translations, legal records, financial records — with high-resolution manuscript images alongside annotated transcripts.

Mathematics & Science

• The Feynman Lectures on PhysicsCaltech’s free online edition of Feynman’s legendary undergraduate physics lectures.
• arXiv.orgOpen-access preprint server for physics, mathematics, computer science, and related fields.
• nLabWiki for mathematics from the perspective of category theory and homotopy type theory.
• MacTutor IndexSt. Andrews’ history of mathematics archive with biographies and topic essays.
• The Euler ArchiveDigital repository of Euler’s collected works and correspondence.
• Euclid’s Elements GuideDavid Joyce’s annotated and interactive edition of Euclid’s Elements.
• Wolfram MathWorldComprehensive mathematical encyclopedia.
• Explained VisuallyInteractive visual explanations of mathematical and statistical concepts.
• Astronomy Picture of the DayNASA’s daily astronomical photograph with explanation by a professional astronomer.
• WIKISKY.ORG — Interactive Sky MapInteractive map of the sky with object identification.
• PAT — The Free, Open Source, Portable AtlasLightweight offline atlas application.
• Project EulerChallenging mathematical and programming problems for computational exploration.
• The Galileo ProjectRice University’s information resource on the life and work of Galileo Galilei.
• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science LibraryDigital resources and research at the intersection of science and history.
• Iconographic Encyclopædia of Science, Literature, and ArtDigitized plates from the 1851 Iconographic Encyclopaedia.
• Nuclear Weapon ArchiveTechnical history and documentation of nuclear weapons development.

Technology

• Folklore.org: The Original MacintoshAndy Hertzfeld’s collected stories from the development of the original Macintosh.
• The Unix Heritage SocietyPreservation of early Unix source code and history.
• Computer History MuseumMuseum and archive dedicated to the history of computing.
• BitsaversArchive of old computer manuals, software, and documentation.
• Jargon FileThe original hacker culture dictionary.
• BYTE Magazine ArchivesArchived issues of BYTE magazine, a foundational personal computing publication.
• The Geocities GalleryBrowsable archive of the original Geocities website neighbourhoods.
• Introducing Humdog: Pandora’s Vox ReduxHumdog’s influential 1994 essay on identity and community online.
• Web Design MuseumCollection of archived websites documenting web design history from 1991–2006.
• T E X T F I L E S D O T C O MJason Scott’s archive of text files from the BBS era.
• The Digital AntiquarianJimmy Maher’s history of computer games and digital culture.
• ciechanow.skiBartosz Ciechanowski’s beautifully interactive visual explanations of technical topics.
• Butterick’s Practical TypographyMatthew Butterick’s essential guide to typography for writers.
• The Old NetBrowse the early web through period-accurate browser emulation.
• WibySearch engine for the old web — simple, text-based personal sites.
• ProtowebReconstruction of the early web as it appeared in the 1990s.
• The Art of Unix ProgrammingEric S. Raymond’s classic text on Unix philosophy and practice.

Music

• ARP 2600 ManualOfficial manual for the ARP 2600 synthesizer.
• SyntorialInteractive ear-training course for synthesizer sound design.
• Synth Secrets — Sound On SoundGordon Reid’s classic tutorial series on synthesis and sound design.
• Welsh’s Synthesizer CookbookRecipes for recreating classic synthesizer patches and sounds.
• Museum of Endangered SoundsArchive of disappearing technological sounds — dial-up modems, old ringtones, etc.
• Every Noise at OnceAlgorithmically-generated map of the entire Spotify genre landscape.
• Conserve the SoundOnline museum of disappearing and endangered sounds from old devices.
• SynthtopiaNews and reviews covering synthesizers and electronic music.
• Vintage Synth ExplorerDatabase of vintage synthesizers with specifications and reviews.
• VCV RackFree, open source modular synthesizer software.
• Learning SynthsAbleton’s interactive introduction to synthesizers.
• 120 Years of Electronic MusicHistory of electronic musical instruments from the 1880s to the 1990s.
• MODWIGGLERCommunity forum for modular synthesizer enthusiasts.
• Music Thing ModularTom Whitwell’s DIY Eurorack module designs and synthesizer culture writing.
• Electric DruidTom Wiltshire’s resources on analogue electronics and synthesizer DIY.
• Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic MusicComprehensive, opinionated interactive history of electronic music genres.
• Encyclopedia of Electronic MusicReference encyclopaedia of electronic music.
• Krautrock.comResource site for German experimental and kosmische music.
• GNOSISMagazine and archive dedicated to contemporary experimental and electronic music.