The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries knits together more than 1,000 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war, including what was happening at home.
American Film Scripts Online
American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) is an ongoing project to digitize and thoroughly index 1,000 film scripts. The primary focus of the database is the written work. It allows users to see and understand the structure of films, character development, beginnings and endings, plot points and scenes.
American History in Video
The largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history. Includes commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. Allows the user to create playlists which can be shared.
Asian American Drama
Asian American Drama brings together plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information, providing a comprehensive overview of Asian American drama.
Black Drama: 1850 to present
Black Drama contains the full text of plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
Black Short Fiction
A collection of African and the African Diaspora which includes stories, fables, folktales (some previously unpublished), and literary magazines from several countries from the mid 1900’s to the present.
Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Black Thought and Culture will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.
Black Women Writers
A collection of fiction, poetry, and essays by Black women writers from Africa, North America, Europe, and the Caribbean some dating back to the 18th century.
British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries, From 1500-1900
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries will be the largest collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of more than 1,000 women to researchers, students, and general readers.
Caribbean Literature
Caribbean Literature, when complete, will comprise 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, interviews, photographs and audio files by the most important writers of the Caribbean. The works will be in the original language.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
The collection has been compiled by consulting a number of bibliographies; it will include more than 1,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Containing the entire content of the print version of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, this comprehensive online resource focuses on world music. Includes overviews of geographical regions, surveys of their musical heritage, traditions and themes, as well as descriptions of specific musical genres, practices, and performances.
Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Containing more than eighty volumes of poetry by Irish women written in the period between 1768 and 1842, this database not only provides poetic texts, but also biographical and critical essays to accompany the works. Includes such poets as Henrietta Battier, Adelaide O’Keeffe, and Elizabeth Ryves.
Latin American Women Writers
A collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Also includes essays by Latin American feminists, who address concerns of women of every age.
Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
Latino Literature is the most comprehensive collection of Latino Literature yet created. It will include 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry and 450 plays, so representing the Chicano culture and all the different ethnicities of Latin American writers with a Hispanic background working in the United States. Although the collection includes materials from the Nineteenth Century, the vast majority of the materials are from the Chicano Renaissance to the present.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (IMLD) provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1920 to 1980. The database includes personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories, providing a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. Much of the material is previously unpublished. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable for the first time, are included.
North American Indian Drama
A collection of 20th century full text plays by North American Indian and First Nation playwrights. The collection represents groups across the United States and Canada, including Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Lenape, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, among others.
North American Theatre Online
North American Theatre Online covers all aspects of American and Canadian Theatre by providing in-depth records for plays, people, theatres, new productions, and production companies. The collection also includes playbills, postcards, posters, and scrapbooks.
North American Women’s Drama
North American Women's Drama will bring together more than 1,500 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection begins with the works of Mercy Otis Warren and Susanna Haswell Rowson in colonial times and will span the 19th and 20th centuries to the present to include contemporary playwrights.
North American Women’s Letters and Diaries Colonial to 1950
North American Women's Letters and Diaries is the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years from Colonial times to 1950.
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Focuses on poems by Scottish women during the Romantic period
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974
Letters, diaries, oral histories, posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and other rare materials documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America—vividly conveying the zeitgeist of the decade and its effects into the middle of the next.
Social Theory
Social Theory is a database that brings together an extensive range of influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day. Includes works by these theorists: Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Jürgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard.
South and Southeast Asian Literature: Classic and Postcolonial Writers in English, 1825 - Present
A searchable collection of fiction and poetry written in English by authors who are from or who identify culturally with South and Southeastern Asia, including the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Fiji. Also includes author interviews and manuscript materials.
Twentieth Century North American Drama
A collection of plays together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and includes selected playbills and production photographs.
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
A collection of full text documents, images, Women’s Commission Collection, and links to Web sites which provide a historical analysis of women in the United States.
