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More than 400 hours of streaming video and growing to 1,000 hours on music history, music appreciation, music performance, analysis, and theory from Medieval to the twenty-first century, recordings from the 1950s up to the most current recordings,
performances, master classes and documentaries.

Primary and secondary sources pertaining to U.S. history and U.S. women’s history between the years 1600 to 2000.

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 contains over 5,000 documents and 123 document projects pertaining to U.S. history and U.S. women’s history. This resource is focused on the history of women in U.S. social movements between 1600 – 2000. Documents include photographs, letters, newspaper articles, and more.

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 and other ephemera related to the plays. More than 100 of the plays are published here for the first time including a number by major authors.

Access to videos pertaining to theatre including performances, documentaries, interviews, and more.

A product of Alexander Street, Theatre in Video contains over 660 video resources featuring performances, documentaries, and interviews. Subjects include acting, modern theater, staging and design, and more.

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 contain more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this artform. As of May 2010, there were 23,199 pages in 130 series and 355 publications included.

A video archive of the acclaimed seminar series held by The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television and Radio) in New York and Los Angeles. The seminars feature the leading names in media discussing the creative process, contemporary issues in production, and issues such as the impact of the media on contemporary society. Topics covered range from presidential advertising campaigns to reality shows, from writing sitcoms to the role of the media in the Middle East. When complete, the archive will include more than 300 hours of video, with new content added each year in regular updates. Already available are seminars on movie editing, women in television drama, and representations of gay and lesbian characters, together with panel discussions with the cast and crew of both recent hit shows (The Wire, Mad Men, Heroes, Curb Your Enthusiasm) and television classics such as M*A*S*H, Columbo and Cagney and Lacey.

This collection includes the immediate experiences of numerous women and contains many pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.  The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

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 from the United States and Canada. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. The database also includes selected playbills production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

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