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African-American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The contents are based upon the bibliography of William French et al, Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975: A Guide to Information Sources (Gale Research, 1979). Generally, the policy has been to use first editions whenever possible; later editions were selected if they were more inclusive. Where poems appeared in their original dialect in an earlier edition and standardized in a later edition, both forms have been included for comparison purposes. Poems originally published in periodicals have also been included. Textual apparatus and front matter to the poems are generally omitted, except the poet's own notes, which have been included in the database.

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 (APS Online) provides the full text of articles, advertisements, illustrations, editiorial cartoons, obituaries, letters to the editor, etc., from more than 1,100 American magazines and journals that began publication between 1741, when Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine first appeared, and 1900. Popular, special interest and general magazines; literary and professional journals; children's and women's magazines; and many other historically significant periodicals are included. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.

The articles are available as digitized images and therefore preserve the original typography, graphics, and page layout. The database allows searching by author, title, article type, publication title, date, and keywords in the full-text. In addition, a Search for Periodicals function in APS Online leads to bibliographic information and a summary of the historical significance of all the periodicals represented in the database. Extensive primary source content in its original context and a history of American magazine publishing are made available in APS Online.

The Bibliography of American Literature provides more than 37,000 records of the literary works of 281 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930. It aims to include all first editions, chronologically arranged, of each author covered. In addition, it includes any book (pamphlet, broadside, etc.) containing the first appearance of any prose (except letters) or poetry by such authors. It records variant issues and states of the first editions, as well as details of illustrations and maps, and standard and variant publishers' bindings. European editions in English are included as and where necessary. Reprints which might be confused with first editions, and subsequent editions containing important textual changes by the author, are briefly noted. A selective list of bibliographical, biographical and critical works is also given for each author. Certain categories of material, including periodical and newspaper publications, unrevised reprints and translations into other languages, have been excluded.

1,200 plays, almost a quarter previously unpublished, have been carefully selected by well known experts such as James V. Hatch to create this landmark collection. The collection includes the complete works of leading playwrights such as Amiri Baraka and Ed Bullins. Fielded, searchable performance and cast information, materials by Black writers from Africa, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom, in addition to African Americans are included. (Updated one or two times a year)

Black Short Fiction and Folklore contains short stories and folktales by African, African American, and Caribbean authors. When complete this collection should have approximately 8000 works of short fiction. When complete, it will feature the English-language literature of more than 15 countries, with additional special units of French and Portuguese literature from the African continent. In addition, the collection will include literature in languages that have their origins in African countries and are still present in some regions today, such as the Gullah language of South Carolina.

Black Short Fiction and Folklore will include short stories published from the mid-1900s to the present. In addition to these published works, the database will feature previously uncollected works and unpublished manuscripts by many authors. Fables and folktales, which arise from the oral traditions of many peoples and date back many hundreds of years, will also be widely represented within the collection. Researchers will be able to follow their development in both Africa and the New World.

Published by the Alexander Street Press and produced in collaboration with the University of Chicago, Black Short Fiction and Folklore has extensive searching capabilities. Black Short Fiction and Folklore uses PhiloLogic software, developed at the University of Chicago, to enable in-depth browsing and searching of both the bibliographic and the full-text elements within the database.

British Newspapers, 1600-1900 is a comprehensive digital historic newspaper archive. It provides access to historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from the British Isles. This interface searches the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th century British Library Newspapers. It also includes specially commissioned essays and contextual materials written by expert scholars intended to help non-specialist users with perspective and analysis.

C19 indexes millions of documents published between 1790 and 1919. It is currently comprised of the following components for which further detail is available.

Books:
--Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (1801-1919) (Index only)

--Nineteenth Century microfiche project (1801-1900) (Index only)

Periodicals:
--American Periodicals Series (1770-1919) (Full-Text)

--British Periodicals Series (Index only)

--Periodicals Index (1790-1919) (Index only, but links out to JSTOR)

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (Index only)

--Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1824-1900) (Index only)

Official Publications:
--House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1801-1900) (Full-Text)

Archives:
--ArchivesUSA (19th century records only) (Index only)

Newspapers:
--Palmer's Index to the Times (1790-1905) (Index only - but full-text available via Times Digital Archive )

This online collection contains scanned images of rare printed and important manuscript texts on many aspects of gender, sexuality and culture in Great Britain. Types of materials include: ephemeral material such as ballads, cartoons and pamphlets, diaries, advice literature, medical journals, conduct books, and periodicals. Other features include essays by modern scholars, biographical sketches, a chronology, etc.

Provides both images and text for a well-defined and comprehensive collection of early American fiction. Presently includes 440 titles by 80 authors, including first printings of works by James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Published jointly with the University of Virginia Library. When complete, Early American Fiction 1789-1875 will incorporate the full text of more than 250 additional titles and over 60 new authors, including Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Herman Melville and Thomas Bailey Aldrich, as well as a host of minor writers of the period. Early American Fiction 1789-1875 will include more than 750 works of fiction by more than 130 authors.

From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and Thomason Tracts and their revised edition. Designed for graduate scholars in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a collection of English and foreign language books, directories, pamphlets, bibles, sheet music, sermons, advertisements and other ephemera published in the U.K. and the Americas between 1701 and 1800. Content is presented as full text page images which can be viewed online or downloaded as PDF documents. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide. With full-text search capabilities across 180,000 titles (33 million pages), this collection provides multidisciplinary research opportunities not possible until now.

96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles. Includes a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

A combination of Chadwyck-Healey's English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama full-text databases. 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.

English Poetry, Second Edition redefines the English poetic canon for the 21st century, building on the achievement of its ground-breaking predecessor with enhanced functionality and the addition of more than 20,000 poems from several new categories. Containing more than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets, the most comprehensive archive of English verse from the 8th century to the early 20th now offers incomparable representation both of the literary heritages of Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and of the poetic legacies of English writers who have only been brought back to scholarly attention during the last thirty years.

Everyday Life is a dynamic resource that provides a strong basis for teaching and research in areas such as American home life, 1800-1920, the history of women, and the history of childhood. There are rare books, periodicals, pamphlets, tracts, and broadsides relating to:

Political and Social Issues
Race
Religion
Family
Popular Fiction & Sensational Literature
Children's Prescriptive Literature
Periodicals
Women
Fashion & Beauty
Cookery
Medicine
Education
Work
Farming

Gale NewsVault allows you to cross-search or browse multiple historical news collections from Gale.

'Authorized' Version via Chadwyk-Healey provides a single Bible for reference purposes.

Contains fiction, poetry, and plays representing the Chicano culture and all the different ethnicities of Latin American writers with a Hispanic background working in the United States. The database also includes ancillary materials such as playbills and performance material, poetry readings and book presentation flyers, book covers, pictures, etcIncludes some 19th century materials but the vast majority of the materials are from the Chicano Renaissance to current times. Texts are presented in their original language, English or Spanish. In cases where authors produced more different language versions of their work, both are included. About 30of the database is previously unpublished or rare materials from various sources including institutions such as the Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos at Hunter College, scholars personal archives and the authors themselves. The three major groups are represented, Chicanos, Puerto Rican and Cubans, as well as Argentineans, Salvadorans, Dominicans, and other Central and South Americans.

Most of these unique manuscripts are unavailable in any medium elsewhere. They are supplemented by some rare printed materials, including early editions annotated by the authors. Each author collection is included in its entirety, allowing users to browse and search the manuscripts as they would in the Berg Reading Room. Authors represented in this collection include:

* Matthew Arnold
* The Brontes
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning
* Robert Browning
* Wilkie Collins
* Joseph Conrad
* Charles Dickens
* George Eliot
* George Gissing
* Thomas Hardy
* Henry James
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti
* John Ruskin
* Alfred Tennyson
* William Makepeace Thackeray

Provides direct access to a widely scattered collection of original medieval manuscripts that describe travel - real and imaginary - in the Middle Ages. Combines:

--Multiple manuscript sources detailing the journeys of famous travellers from Prester John and Marco Polo to Sir John Mandeville and John Capgrave
--Translations and supporting materials (all of which are fully searchable)
--Maps showing the routes of the travellers
--Introductory essays by leading scholars

Online access to a wide range of primary source materials from the 19th century. Collections currently available are 1) Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange, 2) British Politics and Society, 3) British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture, and 4) the Corvey Collection of European Literature, 1790-1840.

When finished will include more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. 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. The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1920 to 1980. People from many countries are represented, including more recent waves of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. In selected cases, users can to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants or view images of their scrapbooks.

Oral History Online, published by Alexander Street, is the most comprehensive online index of oral history collections in English, with access to full text, audio, video, or bibliographic citations for more than 2,000 English oral history collections from all over the world. The narratives cover thousands of subjects from the late 19th Century to present, including civil rights and race relations, labor history, African American history, women's history, immigration studies, political history, American Indian history, regional history, and more. Oral History Online provides keyword searching of more than 129,000 pages of full-text by some 4,300 individuals, as well as pointers to some 1,400 audio and video files and over 10,000 bibliographic records. Additional indexing also permits searching by narrators' age, race, occupation, birth and death dates; by interview subject and place; by repository information; and many other search criteria.

Incldues the American Periodicals Series, and the following historical newspaper runs:

Atlanta Daily World
Baltimore Afro-American
Baltimore Sun
Boston Globe
Chicago Defender
Chicago Tribune
Guardian & Observer
Irish Times
Los Angeles Times
New York Amsterdam News
New York Times
Philadelphia Tribune
Pittsburgh Courier
Scotsman
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post

Provides access to the single largest collection of working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers anywhere in the world, all digitized in full color.

Part of the British Library Newspapers collection, 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers is a full-text, fully searchable digital archive of nearly 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom. Collected by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), a notable scholar, this unique collection represents the largest single archive of 17th and 18th century news media available from the British Library.

Summon is a powerful, yet simple search tool that allows you to discover the breadth of Temple Libraries' collections. Whether you need to find books, scholarly articles, films, music, dissertations, archival material or other library sources, Summon has you covered.

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Brings together over 100,000 of the most important and influential poems representing the full range of movements and traditions in American poetry from 1900 to the present day including Maya Angelou, John Ashbery Gwendolyn Brooks, Clark Coolidge, Rita Dove, Susan Howe, Langston Hughes, W.S. Merwin, Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams.

The current edition of Twentieth Century North American Drama contains the full text of 319 plays by 53 playwrights. Each play is itself richly indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching. Some 25 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. The structure of this database is unique; it has been built around the core elements of drama - not just the authors, but the performers, the productions, the companies, the theaters as well as the plays themselves. The database indexes information on related productions, theaters, and production companies, as well as selected playbills, production photographs and other related ephemera. This database allows users to examine and understand North American Theatre of the past century in ways that have never been possible before.