Literature Online includes collections of American and English plays, usually no later than the early 20th century. From the main search page, select Drama in the left sidebar for a search interface optimized for searching plays.
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A collection within Literature Online. Containing more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714–1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented.
Contains searchable PDFs of material published in Colonial America and the early U.S to the early 19th century. In addition to searching, the collection may be browsed by topic (e.g., Genre: Songs, Economics: Liquor Traffic, History: Louisiana Purchase, Satires, Peoples: Illinois Indians, Government: Church and State).
Coverage: 1639-1819
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More than 550 full-text works by Black authors from the Americas, Europe and Africa, from the renowned holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Works include personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems and musical compositions.
A full-text collection resources that chronicle the development of America across 150 years that include digitized images of the pages of magazines and journals.
Contains full-text magazines published from 1684 through 1912, and collected by the American Antiquarian Society, reflecting many subjects surrounding the development of the United States.
Features wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations’ bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
Coverage Dates: 1825-1995
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Provides access to scholarly journals in the arts and sciences.
Specifically contains access to Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, Complement, Ecology & Botany and General Science Collections.
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Images and full-content access to historic newspapers from the 18th to mid-19th Century, based on the collections of the American Antiquarian Society, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and 90 other institutions, from every region of the United States.
Searchable full-image of the Chicago Defender (1909-2010), Chicago Tribune (1849-1996), Los Angeles Times (1881-1995), St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-2003), New York Times (1851-2015), Wall Street Journal (1889-2002) and the Washington Post (1877-2002).
Full text collection of African American newspapers from the 1800s, with articles, editorials, poetry, prose, advertisements, vital statistics, essays, and early biographies.