Video Collections
Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
Black Studies in Video features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. In partnership with California Newsreel, the database provides unique access to their African American Classics collection, and includes films covering history, politics, art and culture, family structure, social and economic pressures, and gender relations
LGBT Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
A cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. Features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics.
New World Cinema: Independent Features & Shorts, 1990-present This link opens in a new window
The collection includes over 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and Global Lens.
Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
The collection includes streamed documentaries that are used in humanities and social science classrooms. Topical coverage is contemporary and relevant across the curriculumrace and gender studies, human rights,global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science, psychology, arts, and literature.
Texts & Archival Collections
Black Women Writers This link opens in a new window
Black Women Writers brings together the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora. Offering fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents and 20 countries, the database gives a view of black women's struggles through time. New content is uploaded on a biweekly basis, giving users immediate access to a steadily growing treasury of extraordinary writings. The database currently features over 16,000 pages of poetry and prose.
Digital Transgender Archive
Historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.
Archives of Sexuality & Gender This link opens in a new window
The Archives of Sexuality and Gender program provides a robust and significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas. This growing archival program offers rich research opportunities across a wide span of human history.
Library has access to parts 1 through 6.
Defining Gender, 1450-1910 This link opens in a new window
Original source material from British and European libraries and archives, including a strong core of document images from the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the British Library; Cambridge University Library; Leeds University Library; Birmingham Central Library; etc. Sources include ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature.
Gender: Identity and Social Change This link opens in a new window
Gender: Identity and Social Change includes primary sources for the study of gender history, women’s suffrage, the feminist movement and the men’s movement. Other key areas represented in the material include: employment and labour, education, government and legislation, the body, domesticity and the family. Explore records from men’s and women’s organisations and pressure groups, detailing twentieth-century lobbying and activism on a wide array of issues to reveal developing gender relations and prevalent challenges.
LGBT Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. Collection includes seminal texts, letters, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights as well as memoirs, biographies, poetry, and works of fiction that illuminate the lives of lesbians, gays, transgendered, and bisexual individuals and the community.
Women Writers Online This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 320 texts published between 1526 and 1850, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama.
Art Images
Artstor This link opens in a new window
New interface available at JSTOR Artstor.
Artstor is a digital image library that provides over 1.6 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from around the globe and across time periods. Included are images from international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Register for free with the site to access its full range of services.
The Art Institute of Chicago
over 95,000 records with images
Art Images
Additional repositories for images of world art in all media (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.) held in museums worldwide are linked to the Art History research guide