North American Women’s Drama

 

 

 

Table of Contents - Authors

 

Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960

2 published plays and 9 unpublished plays

 

Mann, Emily, 1952-

7 published plays and 1 related resource

Contents: 1,174 full text plays by 300 playwrights from the United States and Canada

 

Coverage: 1714 to the present

 

Importance: relevant for the study of literature, women’s studies, and the history of feminism

 

Unique features: production photographs, playbills; previously unpublished and out- of-print plays

 

Overlaps with Black Drama, 1850 to Present and Asian American Drama

North American Women’s Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950

 

 

 

Table of Contents - Authors

 

Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960

5 letters

 

Burr, Esther Edwards, 1732-1758

27 letters

Contents: 150,000 pages of letters and diaries by 1,325 North American women, and 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts as facsimile images

 

Coverage: Colonial times to 1950

 

Importance: primary sources for research in history, sociology, literature, genealogy, women’s studies, and related disciplines

 

Unique features: none

 

Overlaps with Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 [Scholar’s Edition]

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 [Scholar’s Edition]

 

(Primary Sources of the Women’s Movement, 1960 to Present: Publications on the Status of Women merged with WSM in March 2007 to form the Scholar’s Edition)

 

Browse - Document Projects

 

1829

How Did the Removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia Shape Women’s Activism in the North, 1817-1838?

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 [Scholar’s Edition] (continued)

                                                                                                                                                                                           

Contents: 72 document projects with 2,100 documents, 28,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and 1,600 primary authors.  Document projects are added quarterly

 

Coverage: 1600 to 2000

 

Importance: documents American women’s social history

 

Unique features: book, film and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. The Second Wave and Beyond: a Free Online Scholarly Community blog

 

Overlaps with North American Women’s Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 and several microfilm sets in Firestone

Black Drama

 

 

 

Table of Contents - Authors

 

Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960

2 published plays and 9 unpublished plays

 

Wilson, August, 1945-2005

7 published plays and 3 related resources

Contents: 1,200 plays, a quarter of which are previously unpublished.  The complete works of more than 300 playwrights from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and Australia

 

Importance: key writings of the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement of the sixties and “township theatre” in South Africa under apartheid.  The collection is strong in social and political drama, and satires

 

Unique features: scanned images of production notes, playbills, biographies, and theater information

 

Overlaps with North American Women’s Drama

Black Short Fiction

 

 

 

Table of Contents - Authors

 

Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960

1 published work

 

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

273 works published

Contents: 8,000 fables, parables, ballads, folk-tales, short stories, and novellas. Published and unpublished works from the mid-1900s to the present

 

Importance: Literary traditions of the African Diaspora. English-language material from 15 countries and selected French and Portuguese materials from Africa

 

Unique features: scanned images and front matter from selected texts; ephemeral materials

 

Overlaps with Black Women Writers

Black Thought and Culture

 

 

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Black Thought and Culture (continued)

 

Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960

73 documents

 

Contents: 100,000 pages of monographs, speeches, essays, articles, and interviews

 

Importance: Wide range of sources for research in history, music, literature, arts, politics, and sports

Unique features: 94 interviews; full text of published non-fiction works; speeches.  Scanned images of The Black Panther newspaper

 

Overlaps with Oral History Online, and the Underground Newspaper Collection

Black Women Writers

 

Table of Contents - Authors

 

Elizabeth, 1766-1866(?)

1 work of nonfiction

 

Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Colored Woman. Collins, Philadelphia, PA 1863

Contents: 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and essays written by and about black women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean. Biographical sketches

 

Importance: social history, literature

 

Unique features: some privately published works and pamphlets

 

Overlaps with Black Short Fiction

African American Song

 

 

 

Browse by – Artist

 

Baker, Josephine

26 tracks

Contents: 16,000 tracks of historical recordings from jazz, ragtime, gospel, and blues to folksongs and narratives

 

Importance: documents the range of African American music

 

Unique features: users may create their own playlist folder

 

Overlaps with no other ASP database

 

 

 

Emily M. Belcher

Princeton University Library

belcher@princeton.edu

April 19, 2007