Black Culture

A resource on trans-Atlantic slavery and abolition brings together original manuscript and rare printed material from dozens of libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Documents are presented alongside contextual essays contributed by leading academics in the field; each essay will have hypertext links to the primary sources it discusses. The project will encompass all the major themes, including: Slavery in the Early Americas; Urban and Domestic Slavery; Underground Railroad, and; Slavery Today, Legacy of Slavery.

Searchable historical Ontario newspapers from 1810 onward.

This resource brings together over 200 years of newspaper titles throughout South Western Ontario from as early as 1810. This collection contains over 100,000 complete issues of 52 community newspapers in both French and English. Originally scanned from microfilm, the content in this collection is fully searchable via Optimal Character Recognition (OCR) technology.

 

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 production companies. The file also includes some 10,500 images playbills postcards scrapbooks and other resources.

The following are cross-searchable through the unified North American Theatre Online interface, with the results seamlessly integrated into one search result.

• Black Drama
• Twentieth-Century North American Drama
• Asian American Drama
• North American Women's Drama
• Latino Drama

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 Literature Online interface:

• African American poetry
• American Drama 1714–1915
• American Poetry
• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, 1920– (abell)
• Canadian Poetry
• Early American Fiction 1789–1850
• Early American Fiction 1789–1875
• Early English Prose Fiction
• Eighteenth-Century Fiction
• English Drama
• English Poetry
• English Poetry, second edition
• The Faber Poetry Library
• King James Bible
• Nineteenth-Century Fiction
• Twentieth-Century African American Poetry
• Twentieth-Century American Poetry
• Twentieth-Century English Poetry
• Bibliography of American Literature

Contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other fugitive material.

Contains approximately 1200 plays by 200 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

Offering fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents and 20 countries, the database gives a view of black women's struggles through time. New content is uploaded on a biweekly basis, giving users immediate access to a steadily growing treasury of extraordinary writings. The database currently features over 73,000 pages of poetry and prose from women from Africa and the African Diaspora.

Combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index. Includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and more.