Black Drama Third Edition contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Over 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
A digitized collection of all 1,450 volumes of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives of the United Kingdom. Documents in this collection offer a British colonial perspective of North America. Contains original correspondence between the British government and the governments of the American colonies from the period covering 1606 to 1822. Modules include:
Module I: Early Settlement, Expansion, and Rivalries
Module II: Towards Revolution
Module III: The American Revolution
Module IV: Legislation and Politics in the Colonies
Module V: Growth, Trade, and Development
LGBT Magazine Archive traces the history and evolution of myriad aspects of LGBT history and culture, including legal contexts, health, lifestyle, politics, social attitudes, activism, gay rights, and the arts. This collection includes twenty-seven titles, including The Advocate, Out, Gay Times, Transgender Tapestry, and others.
A collection of primary source exhibits for students and scholars of queer history and culture. The database uses "queer" in its most inclusive sense, to embrace topics that are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender and includes work on sexual and gender formations that are queer but not necessarily LGBT. Each document collection in the database includes a critical introductory essay that helps explain the significance of the primary sources in historical terms and in relation to previous scholarship.
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An archival research resource comprising the full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines. Coverage ranges from 1846 to 2005. Titles are scanned from cover to cover in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.