A-Z Databases

Aging in the Modern World provides a rich, multi-media exploration of global aging complexities, offering diverse cultural perspectives, personal narratives, and scholarly insights. With its coverage of government approaches, societal attitudes, and key themes like ageism and technological innovations, this is a valuable resource for understanding and addressing the challenges and opportunities associated with the aging population worldwide.

Alt-Press Watch showcases unique, independent voices from respected and cited grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals. The regional, rural, and metropolitan perspectives on local, national, and international issues provide an alternative to corporate controlled media.

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries includes previously unpublished manuscripts such as the letters of Amos Wood and his wife and the diary of Maryland Planter William Claytor.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.

American History in Video features newsreels, including the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel, and documentaries from leading video content producers such as PBS, California Newsreel, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, and others. Much of the content is contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s.

This collection begins with early Colonial poems of John Wilson and William Morrell, offers the complete works of Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, and continues through to early twentieth-century writers such as Adelaide Crapsey and Vachel Lindsay. Canonical poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, and important literary groups, such as the Transcendentalists and the Knickerbocker school, can be read alongside substantial bodies of work by less familiar names such as Elizabeth Akers Allen, Richard Emmons, Lemuel Hopkins and Emma Lazarus.

The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) is widely regarded as one of the most important bibliographical sources for English studies. It covers the critical years of literary output from 1892 through 1962, along with current records through to today with regular monthly updates of newly indexed material.

The Annual Register is a year-by-year record of British and world events, published annually since 1758. This classic reference work provides historians and students with information on the major and minor events of the past 250+ years, with historical context and perspective and a mass of biographical information.

Art and Architecture in Video offers documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis.

Artforum Archive comprises the backfile of Artforum (later Artforum International), the leading magazine for coverage of international contemporary art. Spanning six decades of reporting on art in all media, Artforum offers features, reviews, and interviews relating to artists, exhibitions, publications, and other art world events / trends.

ASM Handbooks provide a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the structure, processing, performance, and evaluation of metals and non-metallic engineering materials.

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection, Volumes I and II present the most important dramatic masterpieces and contemporary plays from the archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays—which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries—showcase leading actors from around the world recorded with state-of-art sound technology.

Baltimore Afro-American is a Historical Black Newspaper available via ProQuest's Historical Black Newspapers collection. Titles from this collection provide cultural perspective and insight to the events that shaped the United States, including the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement. Covering everything from major events to everyday life, these titles are invaluable research tools for studying American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and art.

The complete Arkangel Shakespeare contains fully dramatized unabridged recordings of all of Shakespeare's 38 plays.

BBC Literary Adaptations in Video is a collection of BBC productions of famous literary works. From Dickens to Shakespeare, from Chekhov to Arthur Miller, from Jane Austen to Mary Shelley, a great breadth of works is included, along with titles like Face to Face where actors and directors discuss their craft.

The BBC News Bulletin Scripts Archive offers a unique window on the major national and global events, as well as the evolution of news reporting practices over six decades. The archive consists of daily radio bulletin transcripts from the BBC that provide an overview of unfolding local and global news events. FSU has access to Collections 1 (1937–1955) and 2 (1956–1975).

The work of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) holds up a mirror to the literary and political tumult of the twentieth century. In his dramatic, poetical and theoretical texts he involves himself time and time again with the turbulent events of the era in which he lived. In co-operation with the German publishers, Suhrkamp Verlag, this edition is based on Bertolt Brecht - Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden - Jubiläumsausgabe um 100. Geburtstag, edited by Werner Hecht, Wolfgang Jeske and Jan Knopf, which collects Brecht's works and writings in six volumes with brief notes on each text.

Black Short Fiction and Folklore comprises works of short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present. The materials have been compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors. Some 30 percent of the collection is fugitive or ephemeral, or has never been published before.

Black Studies in Video brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. The collection contains films covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.

Black Women Writers comprises literature and essays on feminist issues, written by authors from Africa and the African diaspora. Facing both sexism and racism, black women needed to create their own identities and movements. The collection documents that effort, presenting the woman’s perspective on the diversity and development of black people generally, and in particular the works document the evolution of black feminism. Many of the writings have been hidden in rare and hard-to-find texts, obscure typewritten documents, photocopied journals, and other fugitive sources.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Complementing Alexander Street’s North American Women's Letters and Diaries, the database lets researchers view history in the context of women’s thoughts—their struggles, achievements, passions, pursuits, and desires.

Created in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries, this unique collection comprises essentially the complete cannon of English-Language Canadian poetry from the seventeenth century up to the early twentieth, and includes Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott.

More than a million-and-a-half Africans, along with many Indians and South Asians, were brought to the Caribbean between the 15th and 19th centuries. Today, their descendants are active in literature and the arts, producing literature with strong and direct ties to traditional African expressions. This literary connection, combined with the tales of survival, exile, resistance, endurance, and emigration to other parts of the Americas, makes for a body of work that is essential for the study of the Caribbean and the Black Diaspora.

The Cecil Papers is a major collection of early-modern historical documents from the reigns of Elizabethan I and James I/VI comprising almost 30,000 manuscript documents written by some of the most significant figures of Elizabethan and Jacobean history. These are accompanied by the complete Calendar of the Cecil Papers, featuring summaries and/or transcripts of many documents and two eighteenth-century volumes of selected transcriptions.

The backfiles of a variety of 20th-century serials covering many aspects of children's lives and interests. These include titles focusing on education, entertainment/literature, news, and religion/moral development. As well as shedding light on the history of childhood and family life during this period, these titles provide alternative perspectives in the study of 20th-century advertising/marketing, popular culture, education, media, and print culture.

Cleveland Call and Post is a Historical Black Newspaper available via ProQuest's Historical Black Newspapers collection. Titles from this collection provide cultural perspective and insight to the events that shaped the United States, including the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement. Covering everything from major events to everyday life, these titles are invaluable research tools for studying American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and art.

The backfiles of over 30 periodicals concerning the 20th-century history of the British Empire, decolonization, and the history and culture of former colonies. This archive offers a mixture of British publications about the empire and titles published in Commonwealth countries. These publications encompass the key events in the empire's later phase and its post-independence legacies.

Colonial State Papers comprises a large collection of hand-written documents and bibliographic records covering Colonial History. In addition to Britain's colonial relations with the Americas and other European rivals for power, this collection also covers the Caribbean and Atlantic world. It is a valuable resource for scholars of early American history, British colonial history, Caribbean history, maritime history, Atlantic trade, plantations, and slavery.

The Comics Studies Library comprises material related to comics studies and history. It covers major works from North America and Europe, beginning with the first underground comix from the 1950s and continuing through to modern sequential artists. The collection contextualizes these original works with interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism from journals, books, and magazines.

The Communist Historical Newspaper Collection includes English-language publications spanning the 20th century covering Communist, Socialist and Marxist thought.

Contemporary Global Issues in Video includes films covering humanitarian, environmental, and social issues such as child trafficking, migration, refugee camps, LGBTQ+ rights, plastic pollution, natural disasters, anti-corruption protests, indigenous people's movements, and global security.

An archive of the weekly British culture and lifestyle magazine, Country Life, focusing on fine art and architecture, the great country houses, and rural living. Country Life Archive presents a chronicle of more than 100 years of British heritage, including its art, architecture, and landscapes, with an emphasis on leisure pursuits such as antique collecting, hunting, shooting, equestrian news, and gardening.

The Daily News Record preserves a key publication for fashion history, whose daily reporting had a huge influence on the global menswear industry. As well as coverage of major trends and events, there is a wealth of information about leading designers, brands, retailers, and advertisers in this publication of record.

Die Deutsche Lyrik in Reclams Universal-Bibliothek covers German lyric poetry from the 15th to the 20th century. Published with the co-operation and support of Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart, it contains the complete text of each poem, including material such as dedications and authorial notes which are an essential part of the original volumes. The collection illustrates the development of German literature and language, and allows the user to examine the reciprocal influence between poetry and politics, literary theory and philosophy. The scope and the range of the database have been enhanced through the addition of various anthologies, which also enables lesser known authors to be seen in context.

Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker, is an essential collection of German writing. Published with the cooperation and support of the publishers Deutscher Klassiker Verlag Frankfurt am Main, this database covers the works of major authors spanning eleven centuries and includes historical, philosophical, theological, political and art history texts.

Disability in the Modern World covers the growing disciplines of disability history and disability studies, along with history, media, the arts, political science, education, and other areas where the contributions of the disability community are typically overlooked. Content includes primary sources, supporting materials, archives, and video.

Documents on British Policy Overseas (DBPO) is a collection of primary source documents from Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), shedding light on diplomatic history throughout the 20th Century. It is based on three print series which form a record of British peacetime diplomacy since the end of the 19th Century: British Documents on the Origins of the War 1898-1914, Documents on British Foreign Policy 1918-1939, and Documents on British Policy Overseas.

The years 1789–1875 saw the publication of many masterpieces of American fiction, and the Early American Fiction collection restores the original literary context of these enduring classics, situating the work of canonical writers alongside numerous novels and short stories popular in their own time but now forgotten and largely inaccessible in print form.

This database documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. The project brings coherence to a wide range of published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters.

This collection is a balanced and representative survey of fictional prose in English and explores the rich diversity of prose fiction preceding the emergence of the realist novel as its dominant form. The database includes numerous rare texts inaccessible in print form together with early editions of all the best-known works of the period. Many different kinds of fiction are represented, including prose romances, popular jest books, and rogue literature.

Eighteenth-Century Fiction brings together works of English prose from the British Isles. The eighteenth century saw an enormous increase in the production and publication of prose narratives. It was a period of great creative experiment as the structure and conventions of what would be termed the novel were shaped and developed.

Engineering Case Studies Online is a comprehensive source for a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes. The collection includes quality documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world.

This collection redefines the English poetic canon for the 21st century. It essentially comprises the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles and the British Empire from the 8th century to the early 20th.

An archival research resource containing the key periodicals for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to the 21st century. The core US and UK popular and trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting, theatre and video games are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Issues have been scanned in high-resolution color, with individual indexing of articles, covers, ads and reviews.

Environmental Issues Online brings together multimedia materials (text, archival, primary sources, video and audio) around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more. The comprehensive database is curated around specific environmental issues and events from the 20th and 21st centuries, enabling students to build a critical understanding of the relationship between people and the environment.

The backfiles of more than thirty 20th and 21st-century magazines, each aimed at ethnically specific audiences. Titles range from political publications to those concerned with lifestyle, fashion / beauty, culture, and identity. The collection reflects diverse voices and gives insight into cultural perspectives, societal shifts, and historical events.

The Faber Poetry Library contains the works of 50 poets comprising 140 volumes of poetry. The authors are all part of the Faber Poetry list and the database enjoys the active support of the publisher and the poets or their estates. The Faber list spans the first seventy years of this major publishing house, showcasing some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.

The field of fashion is rapid-changing. To truly study the essence of this ever-evolving art form and its role in contemporary culture, it’s vital to understand where fashion has been. While photography stills and books can paint a broad picture of this history, no resource can replace the experience of viewing fashion’s most iconic garments and designers in action on the runway and beyond.

Food Studies Online brings together rare and hard-to-find archival content with visual ephemera, text, and video. Food studies is a relatively new field of study, and its importance is felt in many major disciplines. It has social, historical, economic, cultural, religious, and political implications that reach far beyond what is consumed at the dinner table.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History seeks to improve the future as well as appreciate the past and present of historical studies. Articles will provide a careful selection of the most influential and useful primary and secondary materials, so that readers will gain a solid understanding of a given topic, learn to navigate thickets of specialization, and entertain new perspectives and approaches.