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	American Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street Press) is a full-text collection of scripts that also includes detailed information about scenes, characters and the people related to the scripts.
	Asian American Drama (Alexander Street Press) contains plays, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Also includes selected playbills and production photographs.
	ARTstor provides online access to hundred of thousands of visual images and related data from different cultures and disciplines. There are special system requirements for using ARTstor.
	Black Drama - 1850 to present (Alexander Street Press) contains plays, related production information, playbills, photographs, and more. It includes playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
	Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street Press) is a collection of full-text books, articles, letters, interviews, speeches and other non-fiction resources by leading African Americans from colonial times to the present.
	British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press) features the diaries and correspondence of hundreds of women including biographies and annotated bibliographies from the 16^th to the mid-20^th century.
	China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 (Adam Matthew Digital) is a primary source database that contains a wide variety of full-text documents relating to China and the West. It also features interactive maps, paintings and photographs.
	Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street Press) contains classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21^st century.
	Defining Gender, 1450-1910, Online (Adam Matthew Digital) provides full-text access to primary and secondary source materials mainly from British and European archives covering five major themes: Conduct and politeness; Domesticity and the family; Consumption and leisure; Education and sensibility; The body.
	Early Canadiana Online is a bilingual resource providing access to primary source documents relating to Canada’s heritage from the time of the first European settlers to the early 20^th Century.
	Early Encounters in North America (Alexander Street Press) provides access to primary sources including letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts relating to Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean.
	Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) features content published in Great Britain and the Americas including books, directories, Bibles, pamphlets, sheet music, sermons, advertisements, and more.
	Eighteenth Century Journals I & II (Adam Matthew Digital) contains full-text newspapers and journals relating to various aspects of eighteenth century social, literary, and political life.
	Empire Online (Adam Matthew Digital) features full-text primary and secondary source documents covering colonial history, politics, culture and society. It includes thematic essays, periodicals, first-person accounts, folk tales, maps and photographs.
	Globe and Mail : Canada's Heritage from 1844 WE'RE HAVING TROUBLES WITH THIS DATABASE! If the main link isn't working then please try this alternate link to Globe and Mail : Canada's Heritage from 1844. If neither link works, here is another link to the Globe that will only work on campus. There is a known issue with personal firewalls blocking access to Globe & Mail. Test whether your personal firewall is blocking your access
	In the First Person (Alexander Street Press) covers letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives in English from around the world.
	Intelex Past Masters features full-text works of seminal figures in humanities and social sciences. It includes texts in their original language and English language translation.
	Latino Literature (Alexander Street Press) is a full-text collection of fiction, poetry, and plays by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States.
	Mass Observation Online (Adam Matthew Digital) is a resource for archival information about mid-twentieth century British social history and everyday life. It also contains photographs and interactive maps.
	Medieval Travel Writing (Adam Matthew Digital) contains both primary and secondary sources from libraries around the world covering the 13th to 16th centuries. It focuses on accounts of travel to China, India and the Holy land.
	North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories is a full-text collection that provides a personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
	North American Indian Drama (Alexander Street Press) features plays and information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
	North American Indian Thought and Culture (Alexander Street Press) features biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, oral histories, and images.
	North American Theatre Online (Alexander Street Press) provides detailed information on major productions in Canadian and American Theatre.
	North American Women's Drama (Alexander Street Press) contains plays together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
	North American Women\\\'s Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press) is a primary source database of diaries and letters of over 1,300 women from Colonial times to the 1950s.
	Oral History Online (Alexander Street Press) provides full-text access to collections of Oral History in English from around the world along with pointers to free audio and video files available on the Internet.
	Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest - Chadwyck) provides full-text access to the backfiles of journals covering the humanities and social sciences.
	PROME - Parliament Rolls of Medieval England contains the full-text and translations of the meetings of the English parliaments from Edward I to Henry VII, covering the years from 1272 to 1509.
	Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 (Adam Matthew Digital) features a variety of primary and secondary documents relating to trans-Atlantic slavery, abolition, and modern slavery. Includes full-text essays, manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images.
	Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press) is a virtual encyclopedia of streamed audio of folk musical and aural traditions.
	Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press) features streaming video of plays and documentaries.
	Times Digital Archives 1785-1985 (Gale) features full-text access to the digital edition of The Times (London) including articles, advertisements, illustrations, and photos.
	Twentieth Century North American Drama (Alexander Street Press) contains plays together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
	Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Alexander Street Press) contains primary and secondary sources including books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's activism in public life from colonial times to the present.

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