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ENGL 275: American Realisms

American Literature Textbooks

Literary Surveys on Film

American Passages: A Literary Survey Series
Video series on American Literature with an expanded view of American literary movements, placing literary movements and authors within the context of history and culture and bringing in a diversity of voices and tracing the continuity among them. 16 half-hour video programs coordinated with the Norton Anthology of American Literature.

Academic Video Online (AVON)
Academic streaming films and videos, including documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs, and more. Includes films and programs from PBS and the BBC.

History Databases

Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Primary sources from the 19th Century, covering Europe and Africa, Mapping the World, Photography, and Women.

Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
Monographs, manuscripts, and newspapers covering key issues of economics, world politics, and international strategy.

Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature
Selections from map repositories of the British Library and the National Archives at Kew representing the nineteenth century.

Photography: The World Through the Lens
Collections of photographs, photograph albums, photographically-illustrated books and texts on the early history of photography from libraries and archives from across the globe. Some images are well-known while many have rarely been viewed.

Women: Transnational Networks
Focuses on issues at the intersection of gender and class from the late 18th century to the era of suffrage in the early 20th century, through a transnational perspective. The collection contains sources on European and North American movements and collections from other regions.

Library Guide for HIST 215: Victorianizing America
Links to primary source databases for this time period

America: History & Life
Scholarly journals, magazines, and books covering history of the United States and Canada from pre-history to present. For coverage of the rest of the world, see Historical Abstracts.

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