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The electronic editions of local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded.

Combines ProQuest's Genealogy & Local History Online, a collection of over 25,000 family and local histories, and content from HeritageQuest, the largest genealogical data, products, supplies and equipment provider to consumers and institutions in the United States.

The 10 individual Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres:

Contemporary Literary Criticism provides brief reviews, interviews, and criticism often around the time of publication.

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers of 1900 to 1999.

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism presents overviews of f authors of 1800 through 1899 with chronologically arranged criticism representing the entire range of response to each author. Shakespeare Criticism This comprehensive survey of the Bard includes general and specific critical interpretations from the 17th century to the present.

Literature Criticism 1400-1800 This authoritative resource on the greatest writers of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Restoration eras fulfills a need for information on historical periods, literary trends and topics, and the achievements of noteworthy individuals.

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism excerpts criticism on the works of philosophers, poets and playwrights, political leaders, scientists and writers from other genres. Poetry Criticism Support students and enhance the understanding of poetry lovers with this collection of biographical sketches, author portraits, primary bibliographies and much more.

Short Story Criticism deliver a historical survey of the critical response.

Drama Criticism For each play or playwright featured, a full range of critical opinion is presented, along with a biographical sketch, a chronological list of the writer's major works and more.

Children's Literature Review From Louisa May Alcott to Judy Blume, the most popular and influential authors of the genre are assessed through criticism of their major works.

Music Online allows users cross search all of the music databases published by Alexander Street Press. Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products that your institution subscribes to. Music Online can potentially cross-search any combination of these databases: African American Music Reference American Song Classical Music Library Classical Music Reference Library Classical Scores Library Contemporary World Music Dance in Video The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online Jazz Music Library Opera in Video Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries

This resource contains recent articles from The Oregonian, the major daily newspaper in Portland, Oregon. It includes staff written news features, special interest stories, editorials, daily columns, letters to the editor, visual and performing arts reviews, and sports reports. Some obituaries are included. It does not include classified ads, photos, or advertisements.

Historical maps from the Sanborn fire insurance map company from 1867 to 1970 that show details of buildings (including construction materials, use of buildings, and name of owners), streets, lot lines, and neighborhood infrastructure like roads and water mains are included. Because the maps were published at different times, each one shows a snapshot of the neighborhood in a different historical era. Maps of hundreds of Oregon, Washington, and California towns and cities are included.

This resource has a large bibliographic database of records describing serials published throughout the world. Ulrich's covers academic and scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and more.