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	SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY
	HISTORY PACKAGES
	The American Civil War Online The American Civil War Online is the most comprehensive series of databases available for research in perhaps the most extensively studied subject in American history. Comprised of a number of highly respected and heavily visited collections, the series tells the story of the War Between the States in the words of those who lived through it, with letters, diaries, newspaper stories, illustrations, and the statistics that tell the grim realities of a war unlike anything the world had ever seen.
	Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online Imagine seeing into the minds of tens of thousands of individuals and knowing the details of their lives within seconds. Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online allows today’s readers to feel and understand what it was like to be a person of any time, race, ethnicity, or gender, experiencing the past viscerally—through personal and private writings presented as searchable full-text documents, audio files, images, and online videos. The most comprehensive archive of social memory yet created, Letters and Diaries Online is the ideal starting point for historians, sociologists, genealogists, linguists, and psychologists who want to explore and analyze human experiences.
	INDIVIDUAL COLLECTIONS
	Local and Regional History Online - PREPUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT The study of one’s family history is the study of self-identity. People long to understand where they come from, and the forces that have shaped their family over the generations. Local and Regional History Online enables individuals to experience history on a personal level, an achievement previously impossible in traditional history books that often only focus on the accomplishments of a select few celebrities and politicians. This unique online collection is cultivated from Arcadia Publishing’s award-winning series of local history books, and includes over 1 million historical images and texts, celebrating the places and faces that give America its spirit and life.
	The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 - PREPUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America— vividly conveying the zeitgeist of the decade and its effects into the middle of the next. Alongside 70,000 pages of letters, diaries, and oral histories, there are more than 30,000 pages of posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and rare audio and video materials. The collection is further enhanced by dozens of scholarly document projects, featuring richly annotated primary-source content that is analyzed and contextualized through interpretive essays by leading historians.
	Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society, 1750-1950 - PREPUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT High-quality images of original manuscripts, covering 200 years, extensively indexed and online for the first time comprise this collection. In many cases, we also include the replies, from both men and women, placing the letters in their full context. Alexander Street is excited to offer this collection from the American Antiquarian Society, extensively indexed and online for the first time.
	Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Sex, Gender, and the Family Rapid and drastic changes in cultural values and behaviors touched nearly every aspect of American life in the twentieth century. Conduct, behavioral, advice, and etiquette literature reveal how society grappled with these changes. Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Sex, Gender, and the Family will contain more than 150,000 pages of text focusing on gender roles and relations, views of democratic citizenship, character development for children, class relations, and adjustments to new technology.
	Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera Images of the American Civil War is a richly indexed collection of more than 50,000 photographs, prints, and other visual materials that illustrate the experience of Americans in a time of national crisis. Collectively, these items offer a vivid glimpse of American popular culture in the 1850s and 1860s—reflecting attitudes toward national heroes and villains, revealing evolving definitions of patriotism and just dissent, and providing invaluable information on prevailing forms of popular education and entertainment.
	The Gilded Age Immigration and migration, racism and civil rights, labor and industry, women and universal suffrage, American Indians, and the environment are just a few of the issues that came to the fore during the Gilded Age. With this collection, Alexander Street Press brings 40,000 pages of texts, photographs, songs, and primary materials together with 5,000 pages of reference and secondary materials. The result is a highly visual, annotated record of this critical—yet sometimes understudied—period in American history.
	Harper's Weekly 1857-1912 Harper’s Weekly was the definitive newspaper of record for the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th. It had broad distribution and a broad circulation and effective readership of at least half a million people. Harper's Weekly 1857-1912 from Alexander Street Press is the definitive version of the newspaper in electronic form.
	Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines is the definitive online Civil War media resource. The database contains 65,000 pages drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, most of them illustrated—3,720 issues published from 1860 to 1865. Originally printed in 16 different cities, many of the publications are now rare and hard to find, with an item sometimes extant only in a single archive.
	The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries Find detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, a rich battles database, and more. These and thousands of other experiences are represented in this massive, 100,000-page collection. The materials are indexed with dozens of search fields, and there are 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscript images.
	The American Civil War Research Database® The American Civil War Research Database® is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War, with indexed, searchable information on 4.3 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 16,000 photographs. Use the database to examine the military record for each soldier. Trace the war effort, using critical statistics including average age, method of entry into and exit out of the military, war engagements, and associated loss and prisoner statistics. Analytical tools are a distinctive feature of The American Civil War Research Database®, letting you identify a large-scale trend and then focus down to the regiment or individual soldier.
	North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories The personal experiences of immigrants provide insights into labor history, American and world history in general, women's and ethnic studies, and a wide range of related disciplines. This collection brings together 100,000 pages of material, including Ellis Island Oral Histories, audio files, scrapbooks, previously unpublished diaries (some translations), and more. The project covers the years 1840 to the present and represents many countries and groups.
	North American Indian Thought and Culture North American Indian Thought and Culture contains more than 100,000 pages of personal stories, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The collection presents the entire spectrum of Indian and Canadian First People experiences from their own point of view. Firsthand accounts reveal how Indians lived, thought, and fought to protect their interests; how the tribes interacted with each other and the white invaders; and how they reacted to the constantly changing and challenging situations they faced. These rare and informative biographies are supported with historical materials that provide context for the personal stories. Also included is a detailed timeline of Indian events, cross-referenced by region and tribe, to further aid in contextual placement.
	Oral History Online This landmark project makes English-language oral histories easily accessible for the first time, giving voice to typically unheard people from all walks of life from around the world. The database provides detailed indexing of oral history collections, repositories, and narratives, along with links to full text, audio, and video where available. Updated quarterly. Includes the Oral History Top 100 popularity rankings.
	Women and Social Movements in the United States Under the editorial direction of Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Sklar (Department of History, SUNY Binghamton, and the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender), this project includes tens of thousands of primary documents, document projects with introductory essays that interpret the documents, a definitive bibliography, related web links, a Dictionary of Social Movements, and an enormous collection of images. The project will continue to grow each year.
	Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment Painstakingly assembled from hundreds of primary sources, this project documents the relationships among peoples from 1534 to 1850. The collection presents the perspectives of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, officials, and others. It includes works by American Indians, Canadian First Peoples, and many European groups, capturing first impressions, hundreds of years of observations of flora and fauna, descriptions of encounters with indigenous peoples, and new language elements as they evolved. The collection includes nearly 1,000 prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, letters, photographs, and original facsimile pages.
	North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 Our flagship collection, this is a massive, ongoing project to catalog and index American and Canadian women's diaries and correspondence over centuries. Researchers will have access to 150,000 pages of materials, including more than 5,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts as facsimile images. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources and representing 1,500 women from all walks of life, the writings are extensively indexed. Databases of women, sources, personal events, historical events, a geographical table, and other features make the writings useful to researchers in history, sociology, literature, genealogy, women’s studies, and related fields.
	British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries The personal writings of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, spanning more than 400 years, are in this collection. Researchers can explore the thoughts, observations, and experiences of both famous and ordinary women on all subjects. The collection begins in 1500 and moves through to World War II. It includes never-before-published materials from the Imperial War Museum in England.
	American Song American Song is a database of 50,000 songs that users listen to over the Internet. It will allow people to hear and feel the music from our past. Much more than a repository of well known classics like Yankee Doodle and The Star Spangled Banner, this new resource includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, every ethnic group, and every time period. You’ll find songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. There are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and anti-war protests. There are hymns, funny songs, college songs, sea shanties, shape note songs, and songs about topics as diverse as New York and electricity.
	African American Music With jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression represented, African American Music brings 50,000 tracks of music to the ears of library patrons and music scholars. It’s the first online resource to document the history of African American music in the form of an online music listening service. Users search using a powerful interface, identify the music and performances they want to hear, and click to listen through speakers or headphones.
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