Language and Literature

Asian Film Online is an online streaming video collection of more than 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts. The works explore a wide variety of cinematic styles and techniques relevant to the study of film, literature, and the visual and performing arts.

Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial period to the early 20th century.

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.

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

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

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

A full-text retrieval database of classical French writings. Users can create a dictionary and frequency count of words used in a text, trace origins of words or phrases back through the 17th century, etc. The database includes literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises.