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The Library is pleased to announce a wonderful addition to its online
offerings: The Street, a package of 10 primary source databases
published by Alexander Street Press. The 10 resources are available on campus
and at home from our alphabetic listing of e-resources. The titles include:
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
This database
contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters
and memoirs. The product includes 4,000 pages of previously
unpublished manuscripts such as the letters of Amos Wood and his wife and the
diary of Maryland Planter William Claytor. The collection also includes
biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and
material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long. CWLD
uses software developed at the University of Chicago to enable in-depth
browsing and searching of both the bibliographic and the full-text elements
within the database. You can limit your search to specific authors, months,
battles, sources, places, days, and personal events (such as the death of a
comrade or imprisonment).
American Film Scripts Online
This edition
of AFSO contains 386 scripts by 484 writers together with
detailed information on the scenes, characters and people related to the
scripts. When complete, the collection will include more than 1,000 scripts
and over 100,000 scenes of life as portrayed in the movies. The current
collection has everything from the 1938 version of The Adventures of Robin
Hood to Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. In some instances
the shooting script and the continuity script are included as well as drafts
and scripts that were never actually produced such as Raging Bull
author Paul Schrader's Covert People.
Asian American Drama
Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with
detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production
companies, and more. Some 50% of these plays have never been published
before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs
and other ephemera related to the plays. You can search by year,
character, historical event, personal name, and broad and narrow subject
terms not to mention the full text of each play.
Black Drama
Black Drama contains approximately
1200 plays by 215 playwrights, together with detailed information on
related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database
also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera
related to the plays (click
here to see the poster for the 1955 premiere of The Amen Corner by
James Baldwin). Some 440 of the plays are published here for the first time,
including a number by major authors.
Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture contains 438 works of non-fiction written by
192 leading African Americans totaling some 38,000 pages. Where
possible an author's complete published non-fiction works are included, as
well as interviews, journal articles, letters and other fugitive
material. Please note that wherever possible catalog records for the
individual works have been added to CUNY+ for your convenience.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
British and
Irish Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 430
women, as revealed in approximately 80,000 pages of diaries and
letters. When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000
pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years. Each source has been
carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. The collection also includes
biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the
database. Simply browsing through the collection is fascinating. Take a
quick look at Lady Winnifred Howard's Memoirs for a wonderful
description of traveling in late 19th century America including a visit to the
"very fine" Greenwood Cemetery.
Early Encounters in North America
Early
Encounters in North America contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of
letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. The research
possibilities are very exciting. For example, you can identify all encounters
between the French and the Huron between 1650 and 1700 or you can find a list of items (with prices) that
settlers should take with them as they emigrate to Virginia in the early 1600's. You
can also search the flora and fauna and cultural events. There are also over
1,700 images illustrating the primary resources.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
The IMLD includes 342 authors and approximately 37,500 pages of
information which provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to
immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews,
and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars
in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear
the actual audio voices of the immigrants.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
The
NWLD includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women through
150,000 pages of diaries and letters. The materials have been carefully
chosen using leading bibliographies, supplemented by scholars requests and
more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also
includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources
in the database.
Scottish Women Poets of
the Romantic Period
Edited by Nancy Kushigian Davis and Stephen Behrendt, the SWPRP
contains 60 volumes of Romantic poetry, extensive contemporary critical
reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading
scholars. In the Critical Introduction Behrendt states: "This
electronic archive of poetry by women of the Romantic period undertakes to
rectify the critical and cultural lacunae involving these poets by making
available in electronic format a large collection of volumes of their poetry
reproduced in their entirety rather than merely extracted."
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