Description: Imagine seeing into the minds of tens of thousands of individuals and knowing the details of their lives within seconds. These personal and private writings allow today’s reader to feel and understand what it was like to be a person of another time, race, ethnicity, or gender, making Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online the ideal starting point for historians, sociologists, genealogists, linguists, and psychologists who want to explore and analyze human experiences. Brought together under a unified search interface is all the premium content from the following Alexander Street individual collections: *North American Women's Letters and Diaries*British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries* The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries*North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories*Black Thought and Culture*Oral History Online*Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries* The project also links to, indexes, and makes cross searchable more than 700,000 full-text pages of oral histories from open-access Web resources around the world, hand-selected by Alexander Street editors for their value to researchers. The Ellis Island Oral History Project’s 35,000 pages of interviews, including audio links, published for the first time and available exclusively through Alexander Street;*More than 2,000 Black Panther oral histories, available nowhere else;*Letters and diaries from London’s Imperial War Museum, written by women who served in both world wars, online exclusively from Alexander Street;*An Alexander Street-commissioned translation from Yiddish of the diary of a teenage boy who arrived in Philadelphia from Lithuania in the early nineteenth century, describing his personal coming of age and five years of his observations of American culture during the Roaring Twenties;*Access to the oral histories that are free on the Web but impossible to search efficiently without the Letters and Diaries Online unified search index.

Concurrent Users: unlimited

Other info: always proxy off-campus, provides full text, streaming

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