American Studies Brochure A4

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Meet the PressSince its television premiere in 1947, Meet the Press has cemented its position as an institution in broadcast jour nalism. For the first time ever, network TV’s longest running program—with its thousands of interviews, panels, and debates—is available via streaming online video. The Meet the Press collection from Alexander Street Press opens up a wealth of information to libraries by making 1,500 hours of footage—nearly the full broadcast run to date—available online in one cross-searchable interface.

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: Volume I and Volume II

This two-volume collection, which includes the newly launched Volume II, is the first-ever primary-source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels. Many of the works here are rare and hard to find, and all are online and cross-searchable for the first time. At completion, the series will feature 175,000 pages of North American and international works together with more than 25,000 pages of interviews, commentary, and criticism.

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Black Studies in Video is a seminal video collection of archival footage, powerful interviews with leading figures in the civil rights movement, and documentaries examining the black experience in the arts, politics, public and private life, and much more. In partnership with California Newsreel, the oldest nonprofit social issue documentary film center in the United States, this collection is the exclusive streaming source for the SNCC Legacy Video Collection.

Black Drama brings together 1,200 plays, almost a quarter of which are previously unpublished. Hand-chosen by prominent scholars in the field, the collection includes the complete works of more than 300 playwrights. Most works (over 70%) are written by black American playwrights, though the collection also includes a sizable collection of plays from writers in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and Australia. Starting with Victorian plays and working up to the present, this indispensable collection presents the writings together with biographies, playbills, images, production notes, performance information, and much more.

Black Short Fiction and Folklore brings together 8,000 works by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora (25% of them American), from the earliest times to the present. Drawn from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors, much of the collection is fugitive, ephemeral, or previously unpublished. It presents a variety of traditions ranging from early African oral traditions to today’s hip-hop and covers fables, parables, ballads, folktales, short stories, trickster tales, story cycles, and novellas.

African American Music Reference. The ideal companion to American Song and the only online history of its kind, this collection brings together the most authoritative and respected texts, discographies, bibliographies, song sheets, images, and more to chronicle the development of African American music from its beginnings in early slave spirituals to the popular gospel, jazz, and blues movements that have so influenced music world-wide.

Black Thought and Culture includes more than 100,000 pages of primary documents, many of them rare or previously unpublished. Speeches, essays, articles, and interviews from the most important scholars and leaders in the American black community from the pre-Civil War period to the present—and the most complete collection of Black Panther materials available anywhere—illustrate the evolution of what it means to “be black” in America.

Black Women Writers brings together more than 100,000 pages of literature and essays by over 4,000 black women (70% of them American) in electronic format for the first time. Confronted with both sexism and racism, black women have needed to create their own identities and movements. This collection documents that effort from its earliest beginnings. With this landmark collection, Alexander Street makes accessing these resources easy at last, bringing scholars the voices of black women in an immediate, powerful, and uniquely searchable way.

The American Civil War Online. The definitive, must-have resource for American Civil War studies, this specially priced package offering includes three award-winning Civil Warcollections, all completely cross-searchable from a single interface. The three collections below may be acquired individually or as part of the package.

The American Civil War Research Database® is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War, with deeply indexed, searchable information on 4.3 million soldiers and thousands of battles as well as 16,000 photographs. Available nowhere else, the statistics included here let users identify large-scale trends and then funnel down to details about individual regiments and soldiers.

The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries. Find detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, data on individual battles, and more in this massive, 100,000-page collection, much of it previously unpublished and all of it deeply indexed for uniquely powerful searching.

Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera, 1860 to 1865 is a richly indexed collection of 50,000 photographs, posters, cartoons, etchings, and ephemera. The broadest range of primary source content yet collected and made cross-searchable online, this unique resource offers an extensive visual history of American life during the Civil War Era.

Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines is the definitive online American Civil War media resource with 65,000 full-text pages and thousands of photos from 49 periodicals published on both sides of the Mason-Dixon between 1860 and 1865. With materials from 17 public and private archives, this collection gives modern scholars cross-searchable, online access to these rare periodicals for the first time.

Harper’s Weekly 1857–1912 was the definitive newspaper of record for the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th. It had broad distribution and a broad circulation and effective readership of at least half a million people. Harper’s Weekly 1857-1912 from Alexander Street Press is the exclusive version of the newspaper in electronic form.

The Gilded Age. With 40,000 pages of texts, photographs, songs, and primary materials and 5,000 pages of reference and secondary materials, this collection is a highly visual, richly annotated record of this critical period in American history.


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North American Indian Thought and Culture contains more than 100,000 pages of personal stories, many previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find and representative of the entire spectrum of Indian and Canadian First People experiences from their own point of view. Firsthand accounts reveal how Indians lived, thought, and fought to protect their interests; how the tribes interacted with each other and the white invaders; and how they reacted to the constantly changing and challenging situations they faced.

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment. Painstakingly assembled from hundreds of primary sources, this collection documents the relationships among native peoples from 1534 to 1850. Presenting the perspectives of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, officials, and others, it captures first impressions, hundreds of years of observations of flora and fauna, descriptions of encounters with indigenous peoples, and new language elements as they evolved.

North American Indian Drama brings together the full text of more than 200 plays representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th century. Together, the plays demonstrate Native theatre’s diversity of tribal traditions and approaches to drama—melding conventional dramatic form with ancient storytelling and ritual performance elements, and challenging Western dramatic structure.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories. The personal experiences of immigrants provide insights into labor history, American and world history in general, women’s and ethnic studies, and a wide range of related disciplines. With 100,000 pages of material, including Ellis Island Oral Histories, audio files, scrapbooks, previously unpublished diaries (some translations), and more, this collection covers the years 1840 to the present and represents many countries and groups.

Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online. This collection allows researchers to walk a mile in the shoes of people from every time period and walk of life—through personal and private writings presented as searchable full-text documents, audio files, images, and online videos. The most comprehensive archive of social memory yet created, this is the ideal starting point for social and cultural historians.

Asian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth century and progresses to the writings of contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga.

Latin American Women Writers is an extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. It features 100,000 pages of primary writings penned from the 1700s to the present accompanied by supporting essays from Latin American feminists that discuss various aspects of the feminist movement.

American History in Video. With documentaries from leading producers, including the History Channel®, PBS, and others, this landmark collection of documentaries, newsreels, and other broadcast content gives researchers and students online access to what will ultimately be more than 2,000 hours of streaming video.

World History in Video. This online collection gives faculty, students, and history lovers access to more than 1,750 (at completion) important, critically acclaimed documen taries from filmmakers worldwide. A rich survey of human history from the earliest civi lizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall, World History in Video is global in scope, presenting sights, sounds, artifacts, and histories from nearly every country and continent.

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America—vividly conveying the zeitgeist of the decade and its effects into the middle of the next. Alongside 70,000 pages of letters, diaries, and oral histories, there are more than 30,000 pages of posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and rare audio and video materials. The collection is further enhanced by dozens of interpretive essays written by prominent scholars that lend context and valuable analysis.

Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Sex, Gender, and the Family. Conduct, behavioral, advice, and etiquette literature reveal how society grappled with these changes. With over 150,000 pages of text focusing on gender roles and relations, views of democratic citizenship, character development for children, class relations, and more, this collection is an invaluable research tool for scholars in American studies and social history.

Images of America: A History of American Life in Images and Texts. The result of a partnership with Arcadia Publishing, this powerfully searchable collection tells the story of the places and people that have made America, with one million printable historical images with explanatory text, covering thousands of towns and cultural groups in all 50 states.

World Newsreels Online: 1929–1966. This collection of more than 500 hours of histor ical newsreel footage and news media from the US, Japan, France, and the Netherlands enables scholars to analyze key World War II events and figures from a range of global perspectives. Newsreels also provide cultural coverage of the time period, addressing topics like health, scientific and industrial progress, religion, sports, fashion, politics, meteorology, agriculture, and disasters.

Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction features more than 200 novels, many hundreds of short stories, 20,000 pages of poetry, and more than 400 plays. The collection traces the medium from the works of Chicano writers in the Southwest during the early 19th century through to today, with select texts available in their original Spanish.


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World War II Newsreels, 1929–1946

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Women and Social Movements in the United States. Edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin of SUNY Binghamton, this collection is one of the most popular women’s history resources on the Web. Containing a variety of primary-source documents—including images, scholarly essays, book reviews, and more—this collection offers researchers a thorough investigation of the changes in American culture and the impact on the experience of women from the 1600s through today.

North American Women’s Letters and Diaries,Colonial to 1950. Our flagship collection, this is a comprehensive resource that catalogues and indexes American and Canadian women’s diaries and correspondence over the centuries.Researchers have access to 150,000 pages of materials,including more than 5,000 pages of previously unpublishedmanuscripts as facsimile images. Drawn from more than 1,000sources and representing 1,500 women from all walks of life,the writings are extensively indexed for scholarly use.

LGBT Studies in Video. LGBT Studies in Video is a landmark collection that features award-winning films, docu mentaries, interviews, and archival footage exploring the cultural and political evolution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people and the community. This powerful video collection will benefit of scholars in history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science, and gender and cultural studies.

LGBT Thought and Culture. This collection brings together rare material to create a holistic picture of the gay rights movement as it traveled from the fringes of society to the mainstream. At completion, it will comprise 150,000 pages of content, including archival material from local and national organizations and the personal papers of key leaders in the movement.

Manuscript Women’s Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society 1750–1950. This collection features 100,000 pages of the personal writings of American women (both famous and unknown) in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. These documents reveal the details of the authors’ daily lives, their activities and concerns, and their attitudes and help shed light on the roles women played within their families, communities, and in the social and political movements of their time.

North American Women’s Drama. This major new initiative delivers 1,500 plays by women from the United States and Canada, including the complete works of leading playwrights along with those of lesser-known but important writers. Many of the plays are rare, hard to find, or out of print, and all are deeply indexed to enable the collection’s powerful use as a tool for scholarship.

Twentieth Century North American Drama. This collection contains 2,000 plays from the U.S. and Canada from the early 1900s through today. More than 1,300 of the works are in-copyright; more than 550 are available only here. Important playwrights include Sam Shepard, Horton Foote, William Saroyan, August Wilson, David Rabe, Beth Henley, Neil LaBute, David Mamet, Anna Deavere Smith, and many more.

American Song. This growing collection of more than 100,000 tracks for online listening lets users hear and feel the music of America’s history. From well known classics like Yankee Doodle to music from virtually every walk of American life and time period, the collection includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, sailors, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys as well as songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the American Revolution and American Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.

Jazz Music Library. The largest and most comprehensive collection of recorded jazz available online, this collection in streaming audio covers the most notable jazz artists and ensembles from the beginnings of jazz to today—a total of more than 100,000 tracks and growing. With the catalogs of leading record labels, the collection covers the complete spectrum of jazz genres—from acid jazz, bebop, and Dixieland, to free jazz, swing, and more, making it the ideal research and classroom tool.

American Film Scripts. An invaluable resource for scholars of American film studies as well as anyone interested in American thought, culture, and society as depicted on the screen, this collection includes roughly 1,000 official studio scripts (from the time of the earliest silent films to the present day), most of them published here for the first time, plus hundreds of previously unpublished screenplays.

Theatre in Video contains more than 400 seminal (mostly American) theatre productions, together with over 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours in all. These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, have been painstakingly licensed and deeply indexed. For the first time, students, instructors, and researchers can cite and bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples and then include them in papers, syllabi, and course reserves.

North American Theatre Online. This online collection combines more than 40,000 pages of renowned reference works, along with new data on nearly 30,000 plays; 22,000 productions; 57,000 people; 5,400 theatres; and 2,500 production companies, plus thousands of best-of-Web theatre sites. Important reference works, ephemera, and an extensive bibliography make this an unparalleled resource.

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection. This collection delivers more than three hundred important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays, which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.

Filmakers Library Online Series. This diverse three-part collection contains more than 1,200 full-length, issue-based documen taries spanning a wide range of cross-disciplinary topics from architecture and art to criminal justice, economics, the environment, globalization, health, and social issues such as aging, death and dying, racism and sexism, disabilities, education, and more.


LGBT Studies in Video

Filmakers Library Online Series

LGBT Thought and Culture

American Studies

Jazz Music LibraryAvailable on the Web

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