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Offers nearly 70,000 streamed videos in a wide range of subject areas. Includes documentaries, feature films, news programs, and more.
Academic Video Online delivers nearly 70,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. The database includes includes documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage. Distributors include CNN, PBS, A&E Television, BBC, 60 Minutes (CBS), Sony Pictures Classics, First Run Features, Documentary Educational Resources, and many others.
All films* purchased from Alexander Street, whether streaming or DVD, include limited public performance rights, which includes permission for classroom showings, as well as public screenings, as long as no admission is being charged.
*Excluding FILM PLATFORM and National Theatre titles
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American history, literature, and cultural primary sources, spanning five centuries.
Presents manuscript and typescript letters, diaries, notebooks, journals, newspapers, art works, illustrations, photographs, video, and 360-degree objects. This platform facilitates the cross-searching of the following seven standalone Adam Matthew collections:
Manuscript cookbooks, advertising ephemera, government reports, films, and illustrated content sourced from across the globe.
Primary source material, including printed and manuscript cookbooks, advertising ephemera, government reports, films, and illustrated content showing the evolution of food and drink in society. The collection has been sourced from across the globe to reflect a wide range of food cultures and traditions. The collection illustrates the deep links between food and identity, politics, power, gender, race, and socio-economic status.
Other subject areas of interest include; agriculture and food production, and advertising histories of key food and drink brands.
Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
Includes these collections: Alternative Medicine and Health Periodicals, 1810-1877 American Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry Periodicals, 1786-1877 Scientific Periodicals, 1771-1901
Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
Includes these collections:
American Literary Periodicals, 1782-1834
American Literary Periodicals, 1835-1858
American Literary Periodicals, 1859-1891
Cultural Periodicals from the Southern US, 1797-1877
Drama, Humor, and Fine Arts Periodicals, 1764-1877
Fireside Companions and Family Literature Periodicals, 1805-1877
Literary Periodicals of New England, 1789-1878
Story Papers, Dimes and Dollar Periodicals, 1828-1877
Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
Includes these collections:
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1-5
American Civil War Periodicals, 1855-1868
American Political and Social Movements Periodicals, 1815-1884
American Political Periodicals, 1715-1891
Canadian Periodicals, 1790-1877
Current Events and History Periodicals, 1691-1912
Foreign Language Periodicals in America, 1684-1904
Hobbies, Socialization, and Sport Periodicals, 1775-1889
Masons, Odd-Fellows and Other Societal Periodicals, 1794-1877
Military and Law Enforcement Periodicals, 1691-1877
Periodicals from Around the World, 1691-1880
Periodicals of the American West, 1779-1881
Periodicals of the British Empire and Its Colonies, 1702-1879
Slavery and Abolition, 1789-1887
Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
Includes these collections: Alternative Faith and Philosophy Periodicals, 1789-1878 Baptists, Quakers, and Independent Church Periodicals, 1797-1881 Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, and Episcopal Periodicals, 1797-1904 Congregational, Presbyterian, and Reformed Church Periodicals, 1803-1902 Emerging American Religions, 1821-1895 General Interest Christian Periodicals, 1743-1889 Missionary and Charity Periodicals, 1793-1902 Religious Periodicals for Women, Children, and Families, 1804-1878 Religious Periodicals from the Southern US, 1801-1904 Sunday School Periodicals, 1818-1885 Theology and Biblical Studies Periodicals, 1760-1877
Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century.
Includes these collections: Womens Periodicals of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, 1733-1844 Womens Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century, 1845-1865 Womens Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century, 1866-1891
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
Collection of magazines dating from 1940 to the present highlighting topics and trends of youth and popular culture.
Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive showcases unique periodicals from 1940s-present, highlighting topics and trends of youth culture like fashion, rock and roll, sexuality and dating, as well as youth portrayal in the media. At completion, this collection will have 200,000 pages from periodicals published in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Most of the periodicals within the collection are difficult to find and no longer published, such as Clarity Magazine from the 1940s and Petticoat from the 1960s, providing insight to the various content that influenced youth culture throughout the decades.