Online Resources

• The Melville Society
  Website of the organization dedicated to the study and appreciation of the nineteenth-century American author Herman Melville.

• Melville Society Cultural Project Audio Tour
  Download Bloomberg Connects to view the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s audio tour involving Melville scholars and the Museum’s collections.

• The Melville Electronic Library
  Projected to be the first born-digital online resource for Melville studies, texts, research, and teaching.

• Melville’s Marginalia Online
  Hosts an “Online Catalog” of books and publications Melville is known to have owned and borrowed over the course of his reading life. It also documents the growing number and locations of surviving books autographed, marked, and annotated in Melville’s hand.

• Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies Published by Johns Hopkins Press.

• Melville Society Extracts
  The publication of the Melville Society from 1969 until 2005 when it was incorporated into Leviathan. Includes valuable scholarship as well as reviews, abstracts, and news.

• Arrowhead
  The Pittsfield, Massachusetts, house where Melville wrote Moby-Dick, among other works. Owned and operated by the Berkshire County Historical Society.

• Melville Memorial Room at the Berkshire Athenaeum (Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
  A large (physical) archive of research source material and Melville family memorabilia, housed in the public library of the town where Melville wrote Moby-Dick, among other works.

• “Or the Eye”: On Jos Sances’ “Or, The Whale”
  Story Map by Erica Zimmer and Jeff Peterson of artist Jos Sances’s life-sized, 51-by-14-foot scratchboard drawing mural of a sperm whale, presented on 119 panels.

• Online Resources for Moby-Dick and American Whaling, Pedagogy and American Literary Studies

• Mystic Seaport Musuem’s 38th Voyage
  An epic journey in the 1841 whaleship, the Charles W. Morgan, in 2014

• Project CETI
  Uses advanced machine learning and gentle robotics to decipher the communication of one of the world’s most enigmatic ocean species: the sperm whale

• Herman Melville biography
  Authored by the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park service

• New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park walking tour guide for Herman Melville in New Bedford