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History

American History in Video

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.

History of Psychology

This site indexes--by name and by birth decade, beginning with Heraclitus and ending with St6anley Milgram--approximately 100 people who made significant contributions to psychology.

New Database! American History in Video

Cowles Library has purchased a new database called: American History in Video.

American History in Video includes over 2,000 hours of streaming newsreels (United, Universal, Chronoscope, and others) and documentaries from The History Channel, Bullfrog, Ambrose, and California Newsreel -- with more to come.   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.