Humanities
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On War | By Carl von Clausewitz | Translated by J. J. Graham | Arsinoe Library Edition
Arsinoe Library Edition, 2026 The Arsinoe Library is excited to announce a new publication. On War by Carl von Clausewitz examines the nature of armed conflict, the relationship between military action and politics, and the practical demands of command. The linked Arsinoe Library edition presents J. J. Graham’s English translation, with an introduction and notes…
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Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Internet History Sourcebooks: Medieval Sourcebook)
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, edited by Paul Halsall, is a major free online collection of primary source texts for the study and teaching of medieval history. Hosted by the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies as part of the larger Internet History Sourcebooks Project, it has been online since 1996 and remains actively maintained. Its…
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The Ghost of the Slain | By R. L. Outhwaite | Drawings by Joseph E. Southall | Arsinoe Library Edition
Arsinoe Library Edition, 2026 The Arsinoe Library is excited to announce a new publication. The Ghosts of the Slain is a 1915 antiwar work by R. L. Outhwaite, illustrated by Joseph E. Southall and published by the National Labour Press in Manchester. It imagines the aftermath of war and argues that lasting peace requires political…
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The Art of War | By Sunzi | Translated by Lionel Giles | Arsinoe Library Edition
Arsinoe Library Edition, 2026 The Arsinoe Library is excited to announce a new publication. The Art of War is the world’s oldest surviving military treatise, traditionally attributed to the Chinese strategist Sun Tzŭ (Sun Wu) of the late Spring and Autumn period (c. 544–496 BCE). Lionel Giles’s 1910 English translation, produced from Chinese texts and…
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The Art of War | By Sunzi | Translated by Lionel Giles, Sutton updates | Arsinoe Library Edition
Arsinoe Library Edition, 2026 The Arsinoe Library is excited to announce a new publication. NOTE: This is the Giles translation with the conversion work by Bob Sutton (1994). We have also published the orginal Giles, unmodified. The Art of War is the world’s oldest surviving military treatise, traditionally attributed to the Chinese strategist Sun Tzŭ…
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HathiTrust: Digital Library
HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries that preserves and provides lawful access to the published scholarly and cultural record. Founded in 2008 by the 12 universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (now the Big Ten Academic Alliance) and the 11 libraries of the University of California, it has grown into…
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New York Performing Arts Library Gets $60 Million Gift for Preservation
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has received a $60 million anonymous donation, the largest in its history, timed to its 60th anniversary. The funds will support a five-year effort to digitize, preserve, and catalog its 15-million-item archive of rare recordings, manuscripts, production photos, and other materials. Priority will go to fragile…
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HathiTrust receives grant to deliver AI-enabled access to digital books
HathiTrust received a $5 million, five-year Mellon Foundation grant, partnering with Northeastern University Library and Authors Alliance, to develop responsible AI tools for discovering and analyzing its 19 million digitized volumes. The Transparent Books project will improve metadata, enable interactive search, and provide verified resources for scholarly and public-interest use. https://www.hathitrust.org/press-post/hathitrust-receives-grant-to-deliver-ai-enabled-access-to-digital-books/
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Schmidt Sciences Awards $11M For AI In Humanities
Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11 million to up to 23 research teams worldwide to develop and apply artificial intelligence tools tailored to humanities fields including archaeology, history, literature, and related disciplines. The Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) aims to overcome limitations of current AI models, which are trained primarily on contemporary data and modern…
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The Analects of Confucius | An online teaching translation – Version 2.21 (2015) | Translated and edited by Robert Eno | Arsinoe Library Edition
Arsinoe Library Edition, 2026 The Arsinoe Library is excited to announce a new publication. The Analects of Confucius, translated and edited by Robert Eno, is a free online teaching edition of the classical Chinese anthology traditionally associated with Confucius and his disciples. The work combines the 20 books of the Analects with introductory historical context,…
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Daodejing | An online teaching translation – Version 1.4 (2010–2025) | By Laozi, Translated by Robert Eno | Arsinoe Library Edition
Arsinoe Library Edition, 2026 The Arsinoe Library is excited to announce a new publication. Robert Eno’s Daodejing is a free online teaching translation of the 81-chapter Chinese classic traditionally attributed to Laozi. Version 1.4, updated through 2025, presents the Chinese title and text alongside English translation, an extended introduction, and a glossary of key terms.…
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Abbeville Institute – dedicated to exploring what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition
The history of southern culture is as important to the world as the history of many entire nations. Southern Culture represents a significant part of the American lifestyle we know and love today. However, many modern historians have tried to reduce the entirety of southern history to only slavery and treason. Our purpose at the…