Primary Sources

Includes primary and secondary full-text materials supporting informed performance, pedagogy, and scholarship in dance.

A collection of art images spanning many times and cultures, and including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design and other visual media.

More than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities, from 1867-1970.

African-American Music Reference is a comprehensive reference database that chronicles the rich history of African-American music through 1970. It includes coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. Resources include biographies, anthologies, encyclopedias, images, lyrics (digitized and fully searchable), song sheets, chronologies, critical textbooks, a comprehensive discography of the top African-American artists, and links to editorially selected Web resources.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material and 300 audio recordings, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.

Over 50 high definition, surround-sound recordings of Shakespeare's plays.

Contains fifty hours of primary footage and secondary documentaries that explore the key events of the sixties and early seventies, including the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement and the sexual revolution.