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Databases on American Life

America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
An index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Has indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present; also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages. Covers 1964 to present. Citations only with links to full text for some articles. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.
Sources are journal articles. Search interface is EBSCOHost.
Archive of Americana This link opens in a new window
Time Period: 1690-1980
Location: North America
Digitized books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries. Contains several primary source collections: America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, American State Papers, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, House and Senate Journals, Senate Executive Journals.
Search interface: Readex
American Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Time period: 1740-1940
Location: North America
Contains digitized images of the pages of special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Search interface: ProQuest.
Readers' Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982 This link opens in a new window
Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Citations only, with links to full text for some articles.
Search interface: EBSCOhost
Library of Congress Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
Time period: 1700s-present
Location: North America
Primary sources and archival materials relating to American culture and history, mostly from the collections of the Library of Congress. Includes written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music.
Organized into more than 100 collections, each accompanied by a set of explanatory features designed to make the materials easy to find, use, and understand. Collections may be browsed individually, searched individually (including full-text searching for many written items), or searched across multiple collections. Comprises more than 9 million items including written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music. Freely accessible.

Newspapers

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Time Period: 1777-1963
Location: North America
A collection of digitized pages of newspapers from many states in the U.S. published between 1836 and 1922. Also includes directory information about American newspapers published between 1690 and the present.
Sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Proquest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Time Period: 1851-1997
Location: North America
Includes The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945); The Christian Science Monitor (1908-1997), The New York Times (1851-2007), The Wall Street Journal (1889-1993), The Washington Post (1877-1994.)

Article Databases

The indexes below are among the best to use when performing research in theatre arts, generally. You may find some articles pertaining to set design and related topics in these databases. For an expanded listing of possible resources, see the Electronic Databases by Subject. Use BrowZine to help you locate the full-text of articles you have identified in one or more of the indexes listed here. Just type in the title of the journal to see where it is available. If we do not have access to it, you can request the article via Sewanee ILL, our interlibrary loan program, which is linked below.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a multi-disciplinary database that offers indexing and the text of articles published in key academic journals.
Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Provides millions of articles from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources with extensive coverage in key subject areas, such as biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology.
OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Provides full text of articles from approximately 2,700 publications (many of them peer-reviewed.) Also includes abstracts and indexing from over 4,000 publications. Covers every core undergraduate subject (sciences, humanities, social sciences, business, and education) as well as cross-disciplinary areas such as ethnic studies, women’s studies, history. 1982 to present.
All the content of these full-text databases as well the full runs of every full-text journal they index: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text. Also contains the full text from ONLY the journals in selected databases to which Wilson has full text rights: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Contains abstracts and indexing from over 4,000 publications. Search interface: EBSCOhost.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index of sources published on modern languages, literature, folklore, dramatic arts, linguistics, and more from the Modern Language Association.
Search interface: EBSCOhost.
BHA and RILA This link opens in a new window
Searches both the BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art/Bibliographie d'histoire de l'art) and the RILA (Répertoire de la litterature de l'art). The BHA is the most comprehensive art bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present, including painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture, decorative and applied arts, graphic arts, and folk and popular art. Time period: 1975-1989. Citations and abstracts only.
BHA includes articles from over 1,200 journals and covers the years 1990-2007. RILA covers 1975-1989. Records have abstracts in French or English and subject terms in French and English. The database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals.

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