Text, video, audio clips and images about 250,000+ people from throughout history, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Comprehensive index of biography and criticism from antiquity to the present day.

LION contains the full text of English and American poetry, drama, and prose from the Anglo-Saxon period through the twentieth century. Includes literary criticism, biography and reference sources.

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Provides access to The Dictionary of Art, with over 45,000 signed articles and images on every aspect of the visual arts. Content updated 3x/year. Includes several other art reference works.

Comprehensive reference covering on all aspects of music

Indexes scholarship on American and Canadian history and culture. Provides some full-text. 1964-present.

The standard indexing service for academic historical writings on all areas of the world, except the United States and Canada. Covers items published from 1972 to present.

Searches magazine and journal articles in the arts and humanities. 7000+ sources, mostly full-text from 1986 - present.

Search for journal articles, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. 1910- present

Broad collection of full-text scholarly journals (approximately 2700 titles). Discipline coverage uneven and usually does not include the most-recent three years.

Index of scholarship on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics. 4,000+ journals and 1,000+ book publishers covered. Some full-text. 1925-present.

Searches journals (approximately 600 titles) and books from over 120 publishers worldwide, often in full-text. Emphasis on humanities and social sciences.

Indexes art journals, including museum bulletins and published images, from 1984. Abstracts 1994-present.

Indexes topics in art including museum bulletins and published images. 1929-1984.

Searches several small databases at once: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals, The Chicago Defender 1910-1975, and Black Literature Index.

Archival resource for the historical study of the entertainment industry in the U.S. and U.K. Provides information on industry economics as well as on TV series, plays, films, musicians, record labels, etc. Covers industry’s impact on political, cultural and social change and the creation of subcultures and youth movements. Included are full-text back files of major trade magazines: Billboard (1894-2000), Variety (1905-2000), Broadcasting (1931-2000), etc. and consumer and fan magazines.

Explore gender history through primary source materials from the 19th to the 21st century, including records from men’s and women’s organization, diaries, correspondence, advice literature, etiquette books, photo albums and more.

Digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals published during the latter half of the 20th century.

The history of modern advertising and global consumer culture is presented through this collection of memoranda, correspondence, market research and reports, print advertisements, creative briefs, staff newsletters, and more from the pioneering agency of J. Walter Thompson Company. The collection is global in scope, but with the U.S. as a major focus.

An online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection illuminates the lives of lesbians, gays, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community.

Covers many years of National Theatre Live broadcasts as well as recordings never previously seen outside of the National Theatre's archive. As a supplement to the filmed productions, exclusive digitized archival materials such as photographs, scripts, costume designs, etc., is available to provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information.

This resource contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930. Sources include books, posters, photographs, playbills, postcards, and ephemera.

Current and archived news content for the United States. Access local, in-state, and national news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, web-only and video content.

Searches digitized images/text of American periodicals from 1740 to 1940. Coverage varies by title.

Collections I and II: full-text primary source periodicals, 160+ journals from Early British Periodicals and 300+ journals from English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts. Fully searchable text. Topics covered: literature, arts, social sciences. 17th-19th centuries.

Search and view approximately 200 U.S. newspapers published from 1880-1922.
Searches hundreds of full-text U.S. newspapers from across the country. 1880-1922.

Full-text articles and images; in PDF format. 1851-2015.

Full-text of the daily newspaper. 1980-present.

Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature. This resource offers researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.

Full-text of 1,300+ newspapers, news websites, and blogs worldwide. 1984-present.