Alexander Street Press

African American Song is a comprehensive resource to chronicle the history of African American music from the slave spirituals to 20th century jazz, blues and gospel.

American Film Scripts Online will contain 1,000 film scripts. Alexander Street makes available accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted scripts, most never-before-published, available through arrangement with major film studios (such as Warner Bros. FOX, and SONY), rights holders (such as Faber & Faber) and writers (such Oliver Stone).

Asian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. This collection has reached just beyond its target size at 252 plays.

Black Thought & Culture The collection encompasses 100,000 pages of materials, beginning with the ideas of Frederick Douglass and including those of W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, Sojourner Truth, Amiri Baraka, and dozens more. This collection will reach its target size of 100,000 pages in 2006.

Classical Music Library is an ever-growing, classical music resource. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. It’s also offers music licensed from a variety of labels, including major labels, and focuses on great artists and distinguished performances.

Latino Literature The majority of Latino Literature is in English, with selected works of particular importance (approximately 25% of the collection) presented in Spanish. The three major components deliver approximately 200 novels and short stories; 20,000 pages of poetry; and 400 plays. This database will grow to target size of 120,000 pages within 2006.

North American Immigrants Letters, Diaries and Oral History The personal experiences of immigrants provide insights into labor history, American and world history in general, women's and ethnic studies, and a wide range of related disciplines. This collection brings together 100,000 pages of material, including Ellis Island Oral Histories, audio files, scrapbooks, previously unpublished diaries (some translations), and more. The project covers the years 1840 to the present and represents many countries and groups.

North American Indian Biographical Database offers more than 100,000 pages of personal stories,—including the first-ever compilation and organization of the Doris Duke Oral Histories; items from the Bureau of Ethnography; the first-ever complete collection of Edward Curtis’s photographs; and much more. The collection presents the entire spectrum of Indians’ and Canadian First Peoples’ experiences from their own point of view. Also included is a detailed timeline of Indian events, cross-referenced by region and tribe. The database will grow to target size of 120,000 pages within 2006.

North American Theatre Online is an ever-growing index project that will grow to include details on all people, plays, theatres, productions, and companies – together with images, floor plans, playbills, posters, and other ephemera – from the 1600s to the present. . It includes index access to Black Drama, Asian American Drama, North American Women’s Drama, Twentieth Century North American Drama and Latino Literature.

Oral History Online is the first and only index to thousands of English-language oral history collection around the world.

The Street Libraries with limited materials budgets ($1,500,000 or less) can qualify to purchase these ten Alexander Street Press collections: North American Women's Letters and Diaries, The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries, Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment, Black Drama, Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, American Film Scripts, North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories, Black Thought and Culture , Asian American Drama.

Women & Social Movements in the US Under the editorial direction of Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Sklar (Department of History, SUNY Binghamton, and the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender), this project includes tens of thousands of primary documents. OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2004 - Choice, January 2005. This collection is updated quarterly.