New Databases 2008

Includes: African American Newspapers parts I-XII, Charlestion South Carolina Gazette, Pennsylvania Gazette, The Liberator Folio I – VII, Civil War: A Newspaper perspective.

An electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Société des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels.

Covers blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression in essays and images.

Includes: Freedom`s Journal, Colored American (Weekly Advocate), The North Star, The National Era, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder.

Early history of African American poetry.

Includes over 210 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose.

Includes broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.

Covers the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Includes images, regimental rosters and officer profiles.

Includes diaries, letters and memoirs from the time of the American Civil War.

Contains more than 1,500 dramatic works from 1714–1915.

Contains more than 48,000 film records.

Contains scripts by nearly 1,000 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.

Contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.

The Annual Register is a year-by-year record of British and world events, published annually since 1758.

Contains original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1.

Contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Contains approximately 1310 plays by 210 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Contains short stories and folktales from Africa and the African Diaspora.

Includes fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents and 20 countries written by women from Africa and the African Diaspora.

Online edition of Brill's New Pauly.

Full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.

Comprised of the Cambridge Companions Collections to Literature, Classics, Philosophy, Religion and Culture. Also includes the Shakespeare Survey.

Contains more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets.

Contains poetry and fiction produced in the Caribbean region during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The collection contains a wealth of information on Colonial/Early American History and Genealogy, and provides an accurate glimpse of life in South Carolina and America during the early days of this country.

This database contains the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.

The earliest editions of the Daily Picayune (later Times-Picayune) from 1840 to 1865 and many other important American Newspapers from the ante-bellum and Civil War period.

Includes reference materials spanning the entire history of Western classical music. Includes essays and images.

From 1940-1945, covers the political life in Occupied Western Europe available to the British Government during World War II from the original intelligence reports, photographs, posters, and film.

Contains more than 75,000 U.S. government documents obtained from presidential libraries.

Biographies covering the history of Canada's inhabitants and their culture.

Covers the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, and includes an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.

Covers the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, and includes an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.

Contains contemporary accounts and follow the detailed exchanges that shaped British foreign policy from the origins of the First World War and beyond.

Contains more than 200 works from the period 1500–1700.

Historical archive 1843-2003.

A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from 1700–1780.

Online edition of The Encyclopaedia of Islam (English) Volumes I-XI and Supplement (Volume XII).

Online version of The Encyclopaedia of Judaism, Second Edition.

Online version of the 5 volume Encyclopaedia set.

Full-text of the 20th edition.

Online edition of the five volume work.

Contains over 3,900 plays in verse and prose.

This second edition contains over 183,000 poems from more than 2,700 poets.

Covers music from around the world with essays and images.

Covers the cultural landscape of America during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt. Includes essays, songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, ephemera. and interviews.

Covers the cultural landscape of America during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt. Includes essays, songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, ephemera. and interviews.

Part of the America's Historical Newspapers collection. To access only the Hispanic American Newspapers, click on the "select a specific collection to search" link in the top center of the page.

Contains: New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), and Los Angeles Sentinel (1946-2005)

Journals of the House of Representatives and Senate 1789 to 1817, covering the first 14 Congresses of the United States.

Part of the America's Historical Newspapers collection. To access only the Hispanic American Newspapers, click on the "select a specific collection to search" link in the top center of the page.

Contains: New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), and Los Angeles Sentinel (1946-2005).

Journals of the House of Representatives and Senate 1789 to 1817, covering the first 14 Congresses of the United States.

A bibliography of books, articles and reviews on Islam and the Muslim world.

Online version of The International Encyclopedia of Communication.

Covers: Film and Television.

Covers more than 720,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to the present.

Contains over 465,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1864 to the present, covering film, theatre, and dance.

Contains original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers.

Contains over 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842.

A Collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

Contains more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States.

The Liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts. Coverage is from 1831-1865.

Contains more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials.

Comprehensive index to historical information published by the United States federal government from 1955-1975.

Online edition of Der Neue Pauly.

Contains digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers, including the Daily Picayune (later Times-Picayune) from 1861-1899.

Contains 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903.

Includes contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives from those who immigrated to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.

Includes biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories.

Contains plays by 18 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Contains over 1,500 plays by 330 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Covers from 1921-1972, and includes a full record of every debate and transaction for the duration of the Stormont administration, the devolved government of Northern Ireland. Separate files exist for each Cabinet Meeting, with minutes and memoranda.

Full text of 2,125 Oxford books.

Electronic version of Jacques-Paul Migne's first edition, published 1844-1855, and the four volumes of indexes published 1862-1865. It comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian (200 AD) to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.

Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides the reader with a first-hand view of colonial America.

Focuses on refugees, exile, and resettlement from 1945-1950.

The ReferenceUSA database contains detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; 1 million Canadian businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents.

Covering from 1500-1926, this collection includes published pamphlets, tracts, memoirs, congressional legislation, correspondence, broadsides, biographies, histories, fiction and poetry, eulogies, sermons and other genres.

Online encyclopedias on a variety of subjects.

Contains 60 volumes of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women, the database includes extensive contemporary critical reviews and numerous scholarly essays.

Executive Journals of the United States Senate 1789 to 1866, covering the first Congress through the first session of the 39th Congress.

All U.S. House and Senate reports and documents from 1824-present. To access the Serials Set, go to advanced search.

Contains fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas.

Covers full-text of Sur Magazine from 1931-1992.

Full-text searchable version of the Times from 1785-1985.

Civil War Era (1840-1865 as Daily Picayune)(link above), 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (1861-1899), from and from Lexis-Nexis (1993-on).

Contains almost 9,000 poems by 62 African American poets.

Includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets.

Includes plays from throughout the English-speaking world, from the 1890s to the present.

Full-text currently available from 1934-2003. To access the Hearings, go to advanced search.

Covers from 1600-1900, and contains publications and documents of local, state, and federal Commissions on the Status of Women from 1963 to the present. Also includes reports, pamphlets, posters, and ephemeral materials.

Includes charity and international relief reports, pamphlets, photographs, and press cuttings, along with interpretative essays from leading scholars. Covers 1914-1918.