Archive for the ‘Humanities’ Category

Short Story Index

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Locate more than 96,000 stories—plus the full text of more than 4,000 stories—with the pinpoint accuracy of electronic searching! For the reader seeking short fiction by a favorite author, the teacher looking for the quintessential example of a particular genre, or the student researching the body of work of a literary figure, Short Story Index is a practical resource.

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ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA’s online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 555,000 article citations from more than 1,656 journals (518 currently indexed), more than 232,000 essay citations from over 16,700 multi-author works, and more than 511,000 book review citations. Full text is provided for more than 266,000 electronic articles and book reviews.

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American History in Video

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

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Dolley Madison Digital Edition

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Dolley Payne Madison was the most important First Lady of the nineteenth century. The DMDE will be the first-ever complete edition of all of her known correspondence. It is currently complete through April 1837, with a total of 964 documents.

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African-American Biographical Dictionary

Friday, February 13th, 2009

African-American Biographical Database (AABD) brings together biographies, rare books, and historical information on thousands of African-Americans. These biographical sketches (including photographs and illustrations) have been assembled from Chadwyck-Healey’s acclaimed Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950. Biographical portraits from newly uncovered dictionaries as well as from other published reference sources, obituary files, slave narrative collections, internet sites, etc. will be added as the database expands.

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Women Poets of the Romantic Period

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Two new databases from Alexander Street Press have been added to the Electronic Resources. 

Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period “includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842 (and) the database also offers numerous biographical and critical essays.”

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period also includes “60 volumes of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women, the database includes extensive contemporary critical reviews and numerous scholarly essays.”

New - Literature Resources from Gale

Monday, August 11th, 2008

This is a new resource brought to us through DISCUS which enables cross-searching of several literature resources, including Literature Resource Center, Scriber Writers Series, Twayne’s Author Series, and Lit-Finder.

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RIPM

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

RIPM is an international annotated bibliographical database of articles on music history and culture, found in music periodicals published in seventeen countries between approximately 1800 and 1950.

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American Civil War Research Database

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

The American Civil War Research Database is an online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Originally created by Historical Data Systems, Inc., the database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. With thousands of regimental rosters and officer profiles, the database will continue to grow as new information is loaded semiannually.

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Book Review Index Online Plus

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Comprehensive reference database for locating reviews of books, periodicals, books-on-tape and electronic media.

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