Databases
Databases
Defining Gender is a collection of fully digitized rare primary source advice literature covering five centuries between 1450 through 1910.
American Film Scripts Online (AFSO)
Publication coverage: 1903 - excluding latest 3-4 years (ongoing)
Collection of approximately 1,000 film scripts with detailed information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
Oral History Online provides in-depth indexing to more than 2,700 collections of Oral History in English from around the world.
Empire Online contains an expansive collection of primary source documents that explore colonial history, politics, culture, and society.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
Publication coverage: 1500 to 1950
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment
Publication coverage: 1600 - present
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Publication coverage: 1600-2000
Focusing on women’s activism in American public life from Colonial times to the present, this database consists of primary documents, books, images and essays.ProQuest Historical Annual Reports
Publication coverage: 1844 - present
Contains information on more than 35,000 slave voyages involving the forcible transport of more than 12 million Africans to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the personal experiences of 1,325 women who lived in North America from colonial times to 1950.
This resource on trans-Atlantic slavery and abolition brings together original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps, images and rare printed material from dozens of libraries and archives across the Atlantic world.
An online archive of British social history from 1937- 1972, with a focus on the World War Two period (1939-1945).