University of Virginia Library online has a few things that are publicly available
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The Modern English Collection (AD 1500-present)
New! 1,800 of these Modern English titles now available also as ebooks for the Microsoft Reader!
Browse by subject: African American, including Letters from Liberia; Native American; American Civil War; Salem Witch Trials; Colonial Currency; Early American Fiction; Alexander Hamilton; Thomas Jefferson; Edgar Allan Poe; Mark Twain; Walt Whitman; William Shakespeare; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Women Writers; Young Readers; Literature in Translation; Best Sellers, 1900-1930; UVa Special Collections; Walter Reed Collection.
9,575 titles including 203,725 manuscript, book, and newspaper illustrations (including covers, spines, book illustrations, and page images), many of which are publicly accessible.
The Middle English Collection
65 titles, most of which are publicly-accessible
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/subjects/