Primary Sources
Dance
- Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowIncludes primary and secondary full-text materials supporting informed performance, pedagogy, and scholarship in dance.
Images
- Newspaper Navigator (Library of Congress)Primarily searches photographs and illustrations from American newspapers, 1900-1963.
- Global Plants This link opens in a new window
A collection of nearly 3 million high-resolution type specimens and related materials from contributors around the world. Also included are reference works, and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, illustrations, and photographs.
Maps
- Sanborn Maps (Library of Congress)The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist provides a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company housed in the collections of the Geography and Map Division.
- Digital Sanborn Maps (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowMore than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities, from 1867-1970.
- Ancient World Mapping CenterHosts a series of downloadable maps that are freely available for educational use and also can be licensed for publication at nominal cost. The maps are organized according to rough geographic regions, including the Roman Empire, the Iberian Peninsula, Egypt, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean.
Music
- African American Music Reference (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowAfrican-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.
- Music Online: Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
A reliable and authoritative destination for in-copyright digital scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of diverse and lesser-known contemporary works. Luther has access to Vols. 1 - 5 of this collection, which encompasses all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century and includes full, study, piano, and vocal scores.
- Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowThe 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.
Theatre
- Royal Shakespeare Company Collection (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowOver 50 high definition, surround-sound recordings of Shakespeare's plays.
Video
- The Sixties Video Titles (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowContains 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.
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News Media
- C-SPAN Video Archives
Free online access to over 2 decades of C-Span cable TV coverage. All programming that has aired on C-SPAN since 1987 (200,000 hours) is now available for viewing online. Many programs aired since 2003 have searchable text transcripts of the program’s closed captioning. Transcript text can be clicked on and the video will jump to that point.
- Latinx Thought and Culture: The NPR Archive, 1979-1990 This link opens in a new window
This collection showcases two radio programs: the weekly Spanish-language Enfoque Nacional (1979-1988) and the Daily English-language Latin File (1988-1990), available for the first time in a searchable database as digitized audio with transcripts. They focus on Latinx issues related to politics, sociology, human rights, the arts and more with interviews of key figures and news reporting by a new generation of Latino/a journalists at the time.
- Vanderbilt Television News ArchiveThe core collection of the Archive consists of regularly scheduled newscasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News. Special news reports are recorded in addition to these newscasts, including material from other networks.
Art and Architecture
- Historical American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)This collections documents achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types, engineering technologies, and landscapes, including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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