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Best of 2011
Did you know American Song; Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works; and Counseling and Therapy in Video were featured in Library Journal among the Best Databases of 2011? Take a look!

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Databases


HarpWeek Databases

Harper's Weekly 1857–1912  
Harper’s Weekly was the definitive newspaper of record for the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th. It had broad national distribution and some international, a circulation that exceeded 100,000 and peaked at 300,000, and effective readership of at least half a million people.  Harper's Weekly 1857-1912 from Alexander Street Press is the definitive version of the newspaper in electronic form.

Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines: Important and Rare Periodicals from Confederate, Union, Abolitionist, and British Presses  
Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines is the definitive online Civil War media resource. The database contains 65,000 pages drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, most of them illustrated—3,720 issues published from 1860 to 1865.

Subscriptions for the HarpWeek databases will be setup directly through Alexander Street Press.

History and Personal Narratives

American History in Video
Black Thought and Culture
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works
Counseling and Therapy in Video, vol. 1  New!
Counseling and Therapy in Video, vol. 2  Coming soon
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
Ethnographic Video Online
Images of America: A History of American Life in Images and Texts
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
North American Indian Biographical Database
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Oral History Online
The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
The American Civil War Research Database
The Gilded Age
New! The March of Time
Women and Social Movements in the U.S.
World History in Video

Learn more about Alexander Street Press' History databases at http://alexanderstreetpress.com/products/history.htm

Literature and History

Black Short Fiction
Black Thought and Culture
Black Drama
Caribbean Literature
South and Southeast Asian Literature
World Literature Online

Learn more about Alexander Street Press' Literature and History databases at http://alexanderstreet.com/products/black.htm"

Music

African American Music Reference
American Song
Classical Music Library
Classical Music Reference Library
Classical Scores Library
Contemporary World Music
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Jazz Music Library
Smithsonian Global Sound

Learn more about Alexander Street Press' music databases at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/music.htm

Performing Arts, Drama, and Film

American Film Scripts
Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection
Asian American Drama
Black Drama
Dance in Video
Latino Literature
North American Theatre Online
North American Women's Drama
Opera in Video
Theater in Video
Twentieth Century North American Drama

Learn more about Alexander Street Press' Performing Arts databases at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/drama.htm

Religion and Social Thought

The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation

Learn more about Alexander Street Press' religion databases at http://alexanderstreetpress.com/products/religion.htm

Women's History and Literature

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
Latin American Women Writers
North American Women's Drama
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Women and Social Movements in the U.S. (Scholar's Edition)
Women and Social Movements: International
Women's History and Literature Reference: North America

Learn more about Alexander Street Press' womens' history and literature databases at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/women.htm

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