As @miriamkp once memorably put it, "It's just awful trying to find a humanities dataset." So here are some, available as an R package, which I used to teach Data and Culture with @mlmcgill last fall:
https://github.com/agoldst/dataculture/
Discussion, with intemperate remarks about various subjects: https://andrewgoldstone.com/blog/dataculture/
Course materials, including labs in R:
https://dc22.andrewgoldstone.com/slides
People whose data and work I pirated^H^H^H^H^H reverently built on: @kjhealy @TedUnderwood @riddella and others not here