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.
A group of full-text databases providing access to primary texts in the humanities and social sciences.
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
ProQuest Historical Annual Reports covers over 800 companies and contains searchable digital reproductions for more than 43,000 reports. Key data (financial, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor, and related companies) are indexed in the citation and can be searched. Reports can be browsed by company name, industry or date. Cross-searchable to other historical periodical databases from ProQuest.
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.
Publication coverage: 1937-1972
Diaries and personal writings, published studies and questionnaires, photographs, and file reports, manuscript and typescript papers on everyday lives of people in Britain from 1937 to 1965.