Arts and Humanities

This database contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.

American Drama, 1714-1915 contains more than 1,500 dramatic works from the colonial period to the beginning of the twentieth century. It provides a comprehensive survey of American dramaturgy from its origins up to the era of sensational melodrama and manners comedy. Plays are also cross-searchable according to a range of criteria, including genre, date and place of first performance and the nationality and ethnicity of the author.

Broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900, and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.

Provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Sources indexed include journals, books, dissertations, online resources and selected government publications published in the U.S. and Canada.

Access to complete collection of 494 videos, including BBC Shakespeare Plays.

Access to articles published on allAfrica.com from 1996 to the present.

Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

This freely available resource indexes the periodical literature of Africa with a focus on the social sciences. The Africana Periodical Literature database now includes citations from the Nairobi Office of the Library of Congress Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature (1991-2011). Where possible links to the full-text of the article have been included. While the priority has been to index the scholarly literature of Africa, selected NGO reports are also indexed.

A collection of documents examining the lives of saints.

A database of medieval abbreviations to assist in deciphering and transcribing medieval Latin manuscripts.