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Literature Online
Works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, with some full-text literature journals, with key criticism and reference resources. The following literature collections are cross-searchable via the... Connect
Empire Online
Collection of primary source documents spanning the 16th through 20th centuries pertaining to colonial history, politics, culture and society.Empire Online contains a vast array of primary source documents, sourced from... Connect
Gale Databases
Explore all the Gale databases available at the University of Windsor. This includes primary source content from across the ages, and full-text journal and ebook content. Connect
Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
Books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. The Gerritsen Collection is a source for the study of women's history in the world,... Connect
Intelex Past Masters
An interdisciplinary resource comprised of humanities and social science databases.A comprehensive resource that is comprised of humanities databases—in both original language and English translation—of... Connect
ITER: Bibliography
Access the ITER Bibliography through the ITER Gateway portal.  This unique bibliography contains over 1.1 million citations for secondary source material from over 400 medieval and renaissance journal titles. Users... Connect
John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera
Scanned documents from the 18th through 20th centuries pertaining to crimes, advertising, booktrade, and more.This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed... Connect
JSTOR
Over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs, primary sources and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always... Connect
Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and Fiction
Includes poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States. Among the gems of the collection are nearly 800... Connect
Literature Online
Works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, with some full-text literature journals, with key criticism and reference resources. The following literature collections are cross-searchable via the... Connect
London Low Life
Colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London. It is designed for both teaching and study, from undergraduate to research students and... Connect
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries
The personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts. Semantically Indexed and online for the first time. The collection is drawn entirely... Connect
Medieval Travel Writing
A collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. The main focus is accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. Featured authors include Ambassadors,... Connect
North American Indian Thought and Culture
Approximately 27 000 pages of text and images included are biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters and oral histories. When complete IBIO will include 100 000 pages of text and... Connect
North American Women's Drama
Contains plays by many different playwrights, with detailed fielded information on related production theaters production companies and more. .Full text of plays written from Colonial times to the present by many women... Connect
Romanticism, Life, Literature & Landscape
The access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.... Connect
Theatre in Context Collection
Covers Canadian and American Theatre. It includes some 40,000 pages of major reference materials together with records to more than 30,000 plays over 57,000 people 5,400 theatres nearly 22,000 productions and 2,500... Connect
Twentieth Century North American Drama
Contains 834 plays by 124 playwrights, together with detailed fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs... Connect
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels
A scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels. Beginning with the first underground comix from the 1960's to the works of modern sequential artists, this collection will... Connect
Victorian Popular Culture
Source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain, and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930. Spiritualism, Sensation, and Magic explores the relationship between the popularity of Victorian magic... Connect
Women, War and Society, 1914-1918: From the Imperial War Museum, London
Primary source materials brought together in the Imperial War Museum, London. These unique documents charity and international relief reports, pamphlets, photographs, and press cuttings are published here for the first... Connect
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