Humanities

Gale In Context: Biography is built on a foundation of more than 650,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study. Providing coverage of the most searched and studied people, Biography In Context includes over 4,500 portal pages on contemporary and historical figures. It offers authoritative reference content alongside, videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles. Users can also search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text. Partial full text.

The Fine Arts & Music Collection places 10.4 million articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available. Partial full text.

The go to source for popular music. You will find entries, often more than one, on popular performers in country, rock, hip hop and pop. Full text.

Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis. The database provides researchers with evidence to support their literary responses and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and perspectives are represented. Full text.

Pop Culture Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses. Partial full text.

This includes several subject specific encyclopedias. The following contain information potentially useful information for projects in this class:
American Decades Primary Sources,
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History,
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture,
New Encyclopedia of Africa,
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Contemporary Musicians

Collection of images from art collections around the world reproduced from major art books. Also includes major architectural works. To print, "clip" image to a new window. Then use CTRL P to print. Access high resolution image through Full Resolution link and save it as a file. This file can then be viewed, printed or manipulated as necessary for your coursework. Printing from the hi-res images may produce outsize images. Hi-res images are VERY LARGE.