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Search millions of pages of primary sources spanning the 15th – 21st centuries, including a wealth of new content added every year.
Trial ends: June 7, 2022
This collection contains records pertaining to the Tudway family’s ownership of an Antiguan sugar plantation during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The papers cover the period from the early slave trade to the post-slavery economy. The combination of statistical ledgers and narrative correspondence provides a unique insight into the operation and eventual abolition of the slave trade in the West Indies.
Trial ends: May 26, 2022
The backfile of Artforum (later Artforum International), the leading magazine for coverage of international contemporary art, from its launch in 1962 to 2020. 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.
Coverage: 1962-2020
A powerful research database that brings together deep, scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology (Birds of North America, The Handbook of the Birds of the World, Neotropical Birds, and Bird Families of the World) with millions of bird observations from eBird and multimedia from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds.
This collection will offer 200 plays from TCG (Theatre Communications Group) Books, the largest independent trade publisher of dramatic literature in North America. TCG Books’ backlist consists of diverse voices in contemporary American theatre, including 18 winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The collection has launched with 110 titles. It will complete with a further 90 in Fall 2022.
The online version of the MLA Handbook (9th edition). Use this resource to help format your papers and citations, and avoid plagiarism. This handbook features advice on punctuation, grammar, inclusive language, formatting research papers, and in-text citations. Includes an appendix of sample works-cited-list entries, illustrations, and an index. Chapters 5 and 6 as well as Appendix 2 focus on citation: how-to and examples.
Qwest TV (co-founded by Quincy Jones) brings some of the most powerful performances in jazz, soul, funk, classical, and global music to students and educators. All videos are available in HD or 4K.
Newspaper collection covering several countries from the region, including Myanmar (formerly Burma), Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and featuring multiple languages such as Dutch, English, French, Javanese, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Provides coverage and perspectives on regional and global events of the late 19th and 20th centuries, including the monumental changes that took place throughout the region during the pre- and post-WWII era, and the challenges of early statehood.
A collection of several hundred thousand citations of Old Latin (pre-Vulgate) versions of the Bible taken from patristic writings of the Vetus Latina Institute in Beuron. The database contains images of the file cards kept by Abbot Joseph Denk in the late nineteenth century on which he noted Old Latin biblical citations; the notations on these cards have sometimes been updated by later editors. Citations may be searched by selecting the biblical book, chapter, and verse desired.
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