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Encyclopedia of information about African American life and experiences published by Greenwood Press.  Including: History, Biography, Literature, Arts, Music, Pop Culture, Folklore, Business, Slavery, Civil Rights, Politics, Sports, Education, Science & Technology, etc.

Includes material from major reference sets; includes many primary documents, manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, etc.; includes  over 4,000 interviews with former slaves—the WPA slave narratives—from the acclaimed The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography; “In their Own Voices” audio clips, such as interviews with former slaves and music files.

AMA Manual of Style contains everything medical and scientific researchers, writers, and editors need to produce well-organized, clear, readable, and authoritative manuscripts.   This guide is an essential tool for physicians and other health professionals. In addition to the basics of grammar and citation, it leads writers through the maze of abbreviation, nomenclature, and quantitation.

A guided tour is available for first time users.

American History in Video includes 1,526 video titles totaling 528 hours and will untimately grow to include 5,000 videos and 2,000 hours of footage.  In addition to newsreel footage and titles from the Works Progress Administration, new PBS documentaries include:

• The complete Ken Burns Civil War series
• Episodes from Burns' Jazz series (with the rest to be added soon)
• Two titles from Burns' America series
• Nineteen titles from the American Experience series, including Roots of Resistance; One Woman, One Vote; The Gold Rush; Influenza 1918; The Orphan Trains; The Berlin Airlist; Building the Alaska Highway; Jimmy Carter; LBJ; Jonestown; The Great Transatlantic Cable; Korean War Stories; The Massie Affair; Race to the Moon; Citizen King; Two Days in October; and Nixon.

Keyword-searchable with synchronized transcripts, it's possible to make customized, annotated clips that can be saved to a personal playlist and shared in a class, cited in papers, or embedded on a web site.

Index & abstracts of major journals in art, architecture, film, graphic arts, and related areas. Links to some full text where available.

A collection of digital images of art, architecture and design from a number of books (notably art history survey texts), museums, archives, and slide collections.

The ARTstor Collection currently contains approximately 500,000 images. The Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. (from pub blurb)

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