Chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Contains full text from major reference works, biographies, and personal narratives from oral histories. Manuscripts, song-sheets, lyrics, discography data, and other text sources cover jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
Contains Japanese-language dictionaries, encyclopedias of Japanese history and culture, and primary source texts from Japanese religious traditions and cultural life. The database can be viewed in either English or Japanese, and the search engine/main search function searches all available reference materials at once
Provides access to primary and secondary sources including treaties, captivity narratives, traditional stories, speeches, maps and images that engage students with the historical experiences and contemporary practices of more than 150 Native American tribes across North America. Includes the WPA Narrative Collection on Removal to Oklahoma.
Bibliography of works produced in Europe that make some mention of the discovery and emerging awareness of the Americas. Derived from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750,” commonly known as the Alden-Landis bibliography.
Provides content and tools to support the study of literature from a variety of sources including primary texts, criticism, full-text journals, book reviews, dissertations, eBooks, reference material, audio, and video.
Archive of almost every play submitted for licence in England between 1737 and 1824. Also includes The London Stage 1660-1800 which is a searchable database of every performance in London during those years and the Biographical Dictionary of Actors etc. 1660-1800.