Essays Online
 

(See also) Writing a Literature Review

Locating an Essay

  1. Find essay collections using the HUHS Online Catalog (search essays + your term).
  2. Literary and political magazines such as Harpers and the National Review regularly feature essays.
  3. Search HUHS Subscription Databases

  4. Essay Collections on the Internet

    This I Believe
    An international project engaging people in writing, sharing, and discussing the core values that guide their daily lives. Written by people from all walks of life, these statements of belief are featured on public radio in the United States and Canada.

    The Concord Review
    Archives some of the best essays that have been  printed in the Concord Review, a well repected journal that features the scholarship of secondary school students.

    Merlyn's Pen
    In print and online, this resource publishes stories, poems, essays, interviews, and reviews by teen writers. Search by genre, subject matter, or the author's grade or location.

    Eserver.org
    This "alternative" community of writers, artists, editors and scholars provides thousands of free resources, from new and classic fiction and poetry to nonfiction, essays, and journal articles on politics, culture, and life.

    Alternative Press Review
    Offers a variety of the “best essays from radical zines, tabloids, books and magazines...along with reviews, commentary and columns on the alternative press scene and other alternative media."

    The Harvard Advocate
    "Welcome to the online version of the nation's oldest continuously publishing college literary magazine. The Advocate is a quarterly journal featuring fiction, poetry, art, and essays by students enrolled at Harvard University."

    Arts & Letters Daily
    Brief descriptions of and links to online articles, book reviews, essays and opinions about philosophy, literature, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art, and more.

    Other Voices 
    An independent, award-winning, electronic journal of cultural criticism published at the University of Pennsylvania featuring “provocative essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, lecture transcriptions, audio lectures, multimedia projects, translations and reviews in the arts and humanities.”

    Prospect
    Selection from a British-based print magazine are archived here, aimed at “the intellectually curious general reader who appreciates finely written essays across the spectrum of political, intellectual and cultural debate...with an international mind and an international readership."

    Skeptic Magazine
    "SKEPTIC magazine is the quarterly magazine of science and pseudoscience, published by the Skeptics Society. It is devoted to investigating controveries of all kinds.”  Includes in-depth research articles, essays and commentary, book reviews, and more.

    United Nations Chronicle Online Edition (we also carry this in print)
    Published quarterly by the United Nations, this web site contains selected articles from the print magazine. Offers “an in depth look into such serious issues as global warming, international economic integration, UN reform, health and human development, human rights and international peace and security” through interviews, essays, opinions and ideas as presented by officials and personalities connected with the UN and affiliated agencies, as well as independent experts.

  5. "Googling" for essays can be tricky. Regardless of your search limiters, most of your hits will be "free essay" sites aimed at students who are looking to avoid writing their own essays (i.e. cheat). These essays, from non-credentialed authors, are rarely high quality, having "made the rounds" and certainly identified by Turn-It-In and other plagiarism tools. After lots of weeding, the following results stood out as reliable. This isn't to say there aren't more...but digging for them takes time!

Compiled by L. Cowell, 2008