African American Music
African American Music will contain at completion 50,000 audio tracks, including collections of recordings by the fifty top names in the history of black American music. Premier artists such as Ma Rainey, Lead Belly, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, and William “Bunk” Johnson are some of the many artists showcased within the database. At least 5,000 tracks will be rare or never-before-published. The other tracks will be in-copyright and licensed from various labels, including the complete holdings of the Document Records label.
African American Music Reference
African American Music Reference is the first comprehensive reference database to chronicle the rich history of African American music through 1970. It brings together for the first time the most important reference texts in this subject area, including discographies, bibliographies, songsheets, images, other print resources, and links to Web resources. In all, African American Music Reference contains at completion more than 50,000 pages of reference materials, including rare and previously unpublished items.
The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
Knits together more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs, to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war. This extraordinary electronic collection includes 100,000 pages of re-keyed and indexed text, including 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscript material. Users can see and compare, for the first time, the writings of politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, seamen, and spies. The letters and diaries are by the famous and the unknown, giving both the Northern and the Southern perspectives, along with that of foreign observers.
American Film Scripts Online
The latest release of
American Film Scripts has 776 scripts and PDFs of every page of more than 500, as well as other major enhancements. Growing to 1,000 scripts, each is indexed and organized to allow searching by scene, by character, by director, and more. Most have never been published in any format, and about half appear as facsimile images. With more than 100,000 scenes of life as portrayed in the movies, this resource is of interest to researchers in sociology, psychology, popular culture, writing, film studies, and history.
American Indian Thought and Culture
North American Indian Thought and Culture contains more than 100,000 pages of personal stories, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The collection presents the entire spectrum of Indian and Canadian First People experiences from their own point of view. Firsthand accounts reveal how Indians lived, thought, and fought to protect their interests; how the tribes interacted with each other and the white invaders; and how they reacted to the constantly changing and challenging situations they faced. These rare and informative biographies are supported with historical materials that provide context for the personal stories. Also included is a detailed timeline of Indian events, cross-referenced by region and tribe, to further aid in contextual placement.
American Song
American Song is a database of 50,000 songs that users listen to over the Internet. It will allow people to hear and feel the music from our past. Much more than a repository of well known classics like Yankee Doodle and The Star Spangled Banner, this new resource includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, every ethnic group, and every time period. You’ll find songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. There are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and anti-war protests. There are hymns, funny songs, college songs, sea shanties, shape note songs, and songs about topics as diverse as New York and electricity.
Asian American Drama
Documents Asian American theatre, from the late nineteenth century to contemporary playwrights, with more than 250 plays and related biographical, production, and theatrical information.
Black Drama
Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 150 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. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection, is the project’s editorial advisor. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
Each play is extensively and deeply indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching. The plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images. The result is an exceptionally deep and unified collection that illustrates the many purposes that black theater has served: to give testimony to the ancient foundations of black culture; to protest injustices; to project emerging images of the New Black; and to give voice to the many and varied expressions of black creativity.
American Writers
The works from early 20th-century America include key writings of the Harlem Renaissance, works performed for the Federal Theatre Project, and plays by critically acclaimed dramatists through the 1940s. Included are the plays of Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Zora Neale Hurston, Ira Aldridge, Shirley Graham, W.E.B. DuBois, William Wells Brown, Owen Dodson, Joseph Seamon Cotter, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Randolph Edmonds, Angelina Weld Grimke, Georgia Douglas Johnson, May Miller, Willis Richardson, Eulalie Spence, and others. The plays address a wide range of struggles and triumphs, including migration to Northern cities, mothers keeping families together, exploitation by white land owners, interracial unity, racial violence, civil rights activism, and the black war hero.
American works from the later twentieth century cover the Black Arts movement of the sixties and seventies, works performed by the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School (BARTS), The Negro Ensemble Company, and other companies. The collection includes plays by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Ed Bullins, Phillip Hayes Dean, Aishah Rahman, James Baldwin, Kia Corthron, Ossie Davis, Rita Dove, Charles Fuller, Ron Milner, Dael Orlandersmith, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Melvin Van Peebles, Joseph Walker, Richard Wesley, August Wilson, and many others. The plays explore themes including civil rights, desegregation, and a wide range of ideologies — integrationist and separatist, revolutionary nationalist.
The African Diaspora
African and Caribbean drama is represented by a wide collection of plays from Ghana, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, the West Indies, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the world. It includes works by writers such as David Edgecombe, Femi Osofisan, Zakes Mda, John Ruganda, Dennis Scott, ‘Zulu Sofola, Paul Boakye, H.I.E Dhlomo, Gus Edwards, Errol John, Fatima Dike, Francis D. Imbuga, Clifford Sealy, Edgar White, Joe Coleman de Graft, Richard Rive, Bole Butake, Matsemela Manaka, Earl Lovelace, Errol Hill, Derrick Walcott, and many others. The plays deal with the social and political ills stemming from colonialism, slavery, and apartheid; the struggle for independence; African history; and neo-colonialism. Of particular interest is material written as “Township Theatre” in South Africa under apartheid and during the development of black grassroots urban theatre.
Black Short Fiction and Folklore
Black Short Fiction and Folklore brings together 100,000 pages and an estimated 8,000 works of short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present. The materials have been compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors. Some 30 percent of the collection is fugitive or ephemeral, or has never been published before.
The project unifies an astounding variety of traditions ranging from early African oral traditions to today's hip-hop. It covers fables, parables, ballads, folk-tales, short story cycles, and novellas - all the writings included will have fewer than 10,000 words. The presentation of this material in a single, cohesive, searchable form - together with extensive indexing - will enable scholars to study the writings in a wholly new way.
Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trail transcripts. The ideas of nearly 100 people present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be black in America.
Black Women Writers
This collection brings together more than 100,000 pages of literature and essays written by black women from Africa and the African Diaspora in electronic format for the first time. Facing sexism and racism at the same time, black women have needed to create their own identities and movements. This collection documents that effort from its earliest beginnings.
British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries
British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Complementing Alexander Street’s North American Women's Letters and Diaries, the database lets researchers view history in the context of women’s thoughts – their struggles, achievements, passions, pursuits, and desires.
Caribbean Literature
More than a million and a half Africans were brought to the Caribbean between the 15th and 19th centuries. Today, their descendants are active in literature and the arts, producing literature with strong and direct ties to traditional African expressions. At completion Caribbean Literature will contain 100,000 pages of text with associated images. Writers share tales of survival, exile, resistance, endurance, and emigration in their native dialects making it a vital resource for those seeking to hear and understand the often ignored voices of the Black Diaspora.
Classical Music Library
Classical Music Library is an ever-growing, fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. Unlike other resources on the Web, Classical Music Library is the only audio service developed exclusively with the needs of librarians in mind. It’s also the only dedicated library resource offering music licensed from major labels. Users browse, search, click, and then listen to the music over the Internet through their headphones.
Classical Music Reference Library
Classical Music Reference Library brings together more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, including Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, which have never before been available in electronic form. The database delivers comprehensive coverage of all classical genres, spanning music from Medieval to the 21st century, with definitions of musical terms and biographical information on the major classical composers and artists. In addition to the Baker's resources, there are biographies, chronologies, primary source readings, critical texts, full text from other major reference works, biographical information, score and lyric excerpts, musical and notational terms, and photographs and images of people, instruments, and ensembles.
Classical Scores Library
Classical Scores Library is the first classical scores database that allows for a truly integrated musical experience for scholars and students. The most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material are available for study. All opera, vocal, and choral text are re-keyed to allow for deep searching and textual analysis. Subscribers to Classical Music Library and Music Online can easily link between scores and music tracks. Scores are viewable in PDF format, with links to movements and acts within the PDF.
Contemporary World Music
Contemporary World Music takes listeners around the globe to experience the vibrancy, history, customs, politics, personalities, struggles, and joys of diverse peoples and cultures. The database contains 50,000 tracks that you can organize and share using personal play lists and course folders, plus liner notes both in facsimile and as rekeyed, searchable text. The breadth of this collection is impressive, incorporating contemporary reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres. Traditional music such as Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku is also featured to round out the offerings and allow you to see the progression that music has made through the ages.
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works is a landmark database containing more than 2,000 transcripts of actual therapy sessions—almost 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, together with 25,000 pages of major reference works. There are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full text of the sessions themselves. All accounts are non-fiction, delivered in the first person and, where possible, contemporaneous.
Dance in Video
With Dance in Video, Alexander Street Press captures dance performances from the stage and brings them directly to your computer screen through online streaming video—including 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Dance as an art form is ephemeral—there are rarely scripts to study, no commonly used notation to analyze—making a live performance vital for study and research. Dance in Video provides the visual element necessary for appreciation and analysis. Students and researchers can at last discover and revisit great performances and learn from the dancers, choreographers, and directors who have perfected the craft.
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts, The
A uniquely exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, this comprehensive electronic collection gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to more than 1,200 works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. These works include the theological writings of more than 300 Protestant authors, as well as a wide range of confessional documents, biblical commentaries, polemical treatises, and Bible translations.
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation, The
A collection of nearly 450,000 pages of primary-source material from the 16th and 17th centuries containing all of the key documents that sparked and sustained the reform from within the Catholic Church before, during, and after the landmark decrees of the Council of Trent.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
Assembled from hundreds of sources, Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. The project brings coherence to a wide range of published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters.
Harper's Weekly 1857 - 1912
Harper’s Weekly was the definitive newspaper of record for the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th. It had broad distribution and a broad circulation and effective readership of at least half a million people. Harper's Weekly 1857-1912 from Alexander Street Press is the definitive version of the newspaper in electronic form.
Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines is the definitive online Civil War media resource. The database contains 65,000 pages drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, most of them illustrated—3,720 issues published from 1860 to 1865. Originally printed in 16 different cities, many of the publications are now rare and hard to find, with an item sometimes extant only in a single archive.
In the First Person
This new FREE library index lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within Alexander Street Press databases - more than one million pages of editorially selected materials spanning 400 years, and also searches scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web. The most comprehensive archive of social memory yet created. It’s a one-stop starting point for historians, sociologists, genealogists, linguists, and psychologists who want to find, explore, and analyze human experiences.
Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
This collection comprises more than eighty volumes of poetry by Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842, a significant, but largely underappreciated body of work. Most of the texts are rare, existing in print in fewer than five libraries in the world. Along with the poetic texts are biographical and critical essays contributed by the world’s foremost poetry scholars and other supporting resources.
Latin American Women Writers
Latin America is immense not only in its size—twice the area of Europe, and stretching from the Rio Grande in Texas to Cape Horn in Patagonia—but in its range of cultural and literary expression. What we call "Latin American culture" is a composite of the rich and diverse output of 20 sovereign countries. Each had its unique struggle for independence and particular ways in which it evolved after the end of colonization. This collection presents an electronic collection of literature by Latin American women from the colonial period in the 17th century forward to the present. The 100,000 pages of works in their original languages comprise literary works, memoirs, letters, and essays.
Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
Contains more than 200 novels, many hundreds of short stories, 20,000 pages of poetry, and more than 400 plays. The majority of the works are in English, with selected works of particular importance presented in Spanish. The collection begins with the works of Chicano writers in the Southwest in the early 19th century and continues through to contemporary works. Social historians as well as students of literature and Latino studies will find much of value in Latino Literature.
Manuals and Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family: North American Advice and Video, 1900-1990
Rapid and drastic changes in cultural values and behaviors touched nearly every aspect of American life in the twentieth century. Conduct, behavioral, advice, and etiquette literature and videos reveal how society grappled with these changes. Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Sex, Gender, and the Family will contain more than 150,000 pages of text and approximately 100 videos.
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society, 1
High-quality images of original manuscripts, covering 200 years, extensively indexed and online for the first time comprise this collection. In many cases, we also include the replies, from both men and women, placing the letters in their full context. Alexander Street is excited to offer this collection from the American Antiquarian Society, extensively indexed and online for the first time.
Music Online
This program brings all of Alexander Street Press’ music services to public libraries at a drastically reduced rate. All 170,000 tracks are included from Smithsonian Global Sound, Classical Music Library, and African American Song. Users browse, search, click, and then listen to the music through their headphones, either in the library or from their homes. They can create their personal, password-protected playlists, and much of the music can be downloaded (if the library chooses to allow downloading) at a small cost to the patron. Audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. With more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories, the collection provides 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, along with thousands of political cartoons. Never before have scholars been able to search these documents easily and find answers to complex questions with just a few clicks.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories provides perspectives both on North America and on the immigrants’ countries of origin. Users will find vivid descriptions of life under the Czar and the various revolutionary governments in Russia; tales of famine and poverty in Ireland; accounts of anti-Jewish pogroms in Eastern Europe; stories of persecution and fascism; and detailed descriptions of life in rural communities and towns as well as in major cities such as London, Berlin, and Moscow. Descriptions of initial encounters with soda pop, chewing gum, and bananas appear alongside reflections on labor conditions, political groups, and attitudes of the authorities.
North American Indian Drama
North American Indian Drama brings together the full text of more than 200 plays representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th century. Many of the plays are previously unpublished or hard to find, and they represent a wealth of dramatic material that is often overlooked or inaccessible. Together, the plays demonstrate Native theater’s diversity of tribal traditions and approaches to drama—melding conventional dramatic form with ancient storytelling and ritual performance elements, experimenting with traditional ideas of time and narrative, or challenging Western dramatic structure.
North American Indian Thought and Culture
North American Indian Thought and Culture contains more than 100,000 pages of personal stories, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The collection presents the entire spectrum of Indian and Canadian First People experiences from their own point of view. Firsthand accounts reveal how Indians lived, thought, and fought to protect their interests; how the tribes interacted with each other and the white invaders; and how they reacted to the constantly changing and challenging situations they faced. These rare and informative biographies are supported with historical materials that provide context for the personal stories. Also included is a detailed timeline of Indian events, cross-referenced by region and tribe, to further aid in contextual placement.
North American Theatre Online
North American Theatre Online will be the largest, most comprehensive reference work in North American drama. It will provide detailed bibliographic information on more than 10,000 plays – including references to works that have never been published. It will contain thousands of facts about theaters, authors, theatrical companies, and individuals, as well as some 1,000 playbills, posters, photographs, and related theatrical ephemera.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
North American Women’s Letters and Diaries is the largest electronic collection of women’s diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it presents the personal experiences of hundreds of women. Complementing Alexander Street’s British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, the database will be used for research in women’s studies, history, sociology, literature, genealogy, and other fields.
The writings provide a detailed record of what women wore, what they ate, what they read, the conditions under which they worked, and how they amused themselves. We can see how frequently they attended church, how they viewed their connection to God, and how they prayed. We can explore their relationships with lovers and with family and friends.
North American Women's Drama
This initiative delivers 1,500 plays by women in Canada and the United States. Presenting the complete works of leading playwrights as well as those of lesser-known but important writers, many of the plays are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Relevant for the study of literature, the collection also will be of interest for women’s studies and the history of feminism.
Opera in Video
Opera in Video contains 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries, and then delivered online through streaming video. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. The result is a dynamic and powerful resource for performers, researchers, and students. The database lets users bookmark specific scenes, acts, arias—even a single recitative passage—and then include the links in papers and course reserves. Instructors and students can annotate and share these personally selected segments during classroom lectures or teaching assignments. With these and other powerful Web tools, Opera in Video will be an essential new resource for study in this area.
Oral History Online
This landmark project makes English-language oral histories easily accessible for the first time. Users link directly to the narratives of individuals from all walks of life, from around the world. The database provides detailed indexing of oral history collections, repositories, and narratives, along with links to full-text, audio, and video where available. Users can search in new ways, such as by occupation or by interviewer, through a newly created, fully controlled subject thesaurus.
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
This electronic collection of over sixty volumes of lyric poetry by Scottish women, written between 1789 and 1832, endeavors to fill a gap in our knowledge of and access to this large and comprehensive body of work. Conventional anthologies and histories of Scottish literature have been composed largely of the works of male authors. Seldom have any but the most specialized twentieth-century literary histories of the period paid serious attention to the dozens of Scottish women poets who were active at the time and whose work and influence were in many instances familiar and admired by their male contemporaries.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. The database includes an extraordinary array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.
Social Theory
Social Theory is a major new undertaking to provide comprehensive coverage of major social thinkers together with seminal texts from lesser writers. Essential for study in the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, anthropology, religion, and literature, the works of many important thinkers in sociology have remained inaccessible until now. For many writers, the project represents the first availability of a major scholarly edition of their collected works. Extensive licensing allows readers to see both the original works and translations, searchable together in a single database for the first time. At completion, the product will include more than 150,000 pages, with well over half of the materials in copyright.
South and Southeast Asian Literature in English
South and Southeast Asian writers working in English, both in Asia and throughout their diasporas, have developed a rich and exciting literary output. The literature included here displays the literary imagination and linguistic inventiveness of writers negotiating multiple cultural identities and the realities of living in a transnational world. Providing deep insights into the modern South Asian experience and its traditional connections, South and Southeast Asian Literature brings together 100,000 pages of fiction, short fiction, poems, interviews, and manuscript materials from these writers.
The Digital Karl Barth Library
The Digital Karl Barth Library, created in association with the Theologischer Verlag Zürich (TVZ) and Princeton Theological Seminary, is an online collection to support a new generation of research into the works of one of the 20th century's most influential theologians. The database features the entire corpus of Barth's Gesamtausgabe. Published under the TVZ imprint, this definitive edition of Barth's works in German currently comprises 42 volumes of theological writings, letters, sermons, academic writings, and more. Also included is Barth's magnum opus, the 14-volume Kirchliche Dogmatik. During the second phase of the project, Alexander Street will supplement the exhaustive German-language content with English translations of Barth's most important works—in particular, the monumental Church Dogmatics.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online will be the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world’s peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. Since its first publication in 1997, The Garland Encyclopedia has been the preeminent reference work for research in this area and a favorite of libraries everywhere. It has won numerous awards, including the Dartmouth Medal, the New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book award, and Library Journal’s award as one of the 50 Reference Sources for the Millennium. Now for the first time, the entire set of 10 print volumes is available as a single, integrated online database, with additional features from Alexander Street Press.
The Gilded Age
Immigration and migration, racism and civil rights, labor and industry, women and universal suffrage, American Indians, and the environment are just a few of the issues that came to the fore during the Gilded Age.
With this collection, Alexander Street Press brings 40,000 pages of texts, photographs, songs, and primary materials together with 5,000 pages of reference and secondary materials. The result is a highly visual, annotated record of this critical—yet sometimes understudied—period in American history.
The "Second Wave" and Beyond: a Women and Social Movements Community
The "Second Wave" and Beyond is a free, online scholarly community associated with Women and Social Movements. Three scholar-editors host this online community, and more than 150 people have become registered members so far. Participants analyze compelling questions about feminist activism and theories; collaborate on new directions for historical research; share bibliographies, unpublished papers, chronologies, images, oral histories, links to external Web sites, book reviews, reviews of new Web resources, syllabi, and other materials; and explore new ways in publishing, writing, and recording the history of contemporary feminism. Content is continually updated through member participation, with many rare and otherwise unavailable items added regularly.
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960-1974
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 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. Alongside 70,000 pages of letters, diaries, and oral histories, there are more than 30,000 pages of posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and rare audio and video materials. The collection is further enhanced by dozens of scholarly document projects, featuring richly annotated primary-source content that is analyzed and contextualized through interpretive essays by leading historians.
The Street
What's The Street? It's a way for libraries with limited materials budgets ($1,500,000 or less) to:
- Save on Alexander Street subscriptions, while getting Web access to our award-winning suite of humanities and social sciences collections ? in one easy stroke.
- Get Web access to ten Alexander Street Press collections.
- These collections are on The Street:
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries
- The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
- Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
- Black Drama
- Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
- British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
- American Film Scripts
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
- Black Thought and Culture
- Asian American Drama
Theatre in Video
Theatre in Video provides more than 500 hours of online streaming video, featuring more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, and more than 100 video documentaries. This is the first collection of its kind to be offered in this new electronic format. Theatre in Video was developed specifically for drama students, instructors, and researchers who can now bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples, and then include those online links in their research papers and course reserves.
Twentieth Century Advice Literature
Rapid and drastic changes in cultural values and behaviors touched nearly every aspect of American life in the twentieth century. Conduct, behavioral, advice, and etiquette literature and videos reveal how society grappled with these changes. Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Sex, Gender, and the Family will contain more than 150,000 pages of text and approximately 100 videos.
Twentieth Century North American Drama
Full-text is accompanied by playbills, posters, production, performance, theatrical company information, and related ephemera of major North American playwrights. Lesser-known but important works of African Americans, Asian Americans, gay and lesbian writers, and others are included.
Women and Social Movements in the United States
This project includes tens of thousands of primary documents, document projects with introductory essays that interpret the documents, a definitive bibliography, related web links, a Dictionary of Social Movements, and an enormous collection of images.
World Literature Online
World Literature Online brings together all of our databases in world literature at one affordable price. Featuring hundreds of thousands of pages of poetry, short stories, novels, non-fiction, plays, and essays, the series celebrates the achievements of authors from around the globe. These literatures of place, gender, and race are rich in sociological and historical significance. Students and scholars of literature, history, politics, transatlantic studies, postcolonial studies, geography, cultural studies, anthropology, and other areas can now explore these important works in new ways.
