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Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.

Provides access to periodicals published in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era. Full text is available.

Access hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. Major newspapers stand alongside lesser known titles published by African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, political parties, and the Confederacy. Full text is available.

Archives the African-American historical newspaper Norfolk Journal and Guide, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.

Provides full text plays from American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th century. More than half of the works are previously unpublished, and hard to find, representing groups such as Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, and others.

North American Indian Thought and Culture is a database on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America. This collection presents the life stories and historical events of American Indians and Canadian First Peoples as told in their own words. Resources include autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files. Biographies include works on Quanah Parker, Dennis Banks, Susan La Flesche Picotte, Crowfoot, Peter Pitchlynn, Sacajawea, Black Elk, Standing Buffalo, and others.

This collection provides full text access to the personal writings of more than 1,300 North American women from all classes and walks of life. All age groups, all life stages, many ethnicities, and many geographical regions are represented, from colonial times to 1950. Resources include diaries and letters, as well as biographies.

This three-volume biographical dictionary covers the lives of notable women throughout three and a half centuries of American history. More than 1,300 women from all walks of life are included.

Contains entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976-1999. Women from a variety of fields are covered, including radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; politicians and entrepreneurs; authors and aviators; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. Women from a broad spectrum of ethnic, class, political, religious, and sexual identities are all acknowledged.

This biographical dictionary includes entries on over 400 notable women who died between 1951-1975. Women from a broad spectrum of ethnicities, socioeconomic classes, sexual orientations, religions, and political parties are included. Criteria for selection include an influence on time or field, a pioneering or innovative quality, the significance of achievement, or relevance of the career in the history of women.