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.
Digital primary collections sourced from around the world.
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Streaming videos and documentaries.
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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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.
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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.
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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:
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.
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Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century.
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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.
Covers social science, history, art, & liberal arts, as they relate to American popular culture.
Collection of magazines dating from 1940 to the present highlighting topics and trends of youth and popular culture. Includes Rolling Stone and The Vibe.
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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.
The Rolling Stone Archive, one of the most influential consumer magazines of the 20th-21st centuries, spanning music, politics / society, and entertainment. Coverage is from its launch in 1967, with ongoing addition of new issues.
The Vibe Archive, the US magazine of record for hip-hop culture from 1993-2014.