Using this Guide
Welcome to the course guide for Jenna Tamimi's TH 382, American Drama: Minoritarian Perspectives. This guide provides a selection of search tools that can help you find primary and secondary sources for your creative writing piece and essay.
Questions? Please ask Erica!
Primary Sources in Books
For more recent plays, use the author search in Primo to check for sources by
- the playwright
- actors and directors
- critics and observers
- Norton Critical EditionsNorton Critical Editions include contemporary primary sources that may, in some cases, give you useful information about performance history.
Historical Newspapers
- New York Times - Historical This link opens in a new windowProvides access to full text articles, photos, and advertisements in the New York Times from 1851 through <3 years ago>.
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new windowContains both bibliographic records for American newspapers and a substantial collection of digitized newspapers from 23 states, including Oregon. A rich and expanding resource.
- African American Newspapers (1827-1998) This link opens in a new windowFull text for approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.
- American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I This link opens in a new windowFacsimile images of 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820-1900, and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760-1900.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) This link opens in a new window19th Century Collections Online is an archival collection of including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more in both Western and non-Western languages.
- Internet Archive This link opens in a new windowThe Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996, the organization has grown to include texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in their collections.
