Popular Culture Resources

Mid-twentieth Century and Later

Article Indexes

Academic Search Premier (1977-present)
Multi-disciplinary database with citations and abstracts from over 8,100 journals and full-text for over 4,600 publications.

Alternative Press Index (1991-present) and Alt Press Index Archive (1969-1990)
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change and alternative sources of information. Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, comics, and magazines.

Art Full Text (1984-present) & Art Index Retrospective (1929-1983)
Subjects Covered: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video. Image searching tips

MLA Bibliography (1926-present)
Indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.

Film and Television Literature Index (1975-present)
Citations and some full text for articles in scholarly journals and popular periodicals covering film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Film Index International
Information on almost 120,000 films and more than 700,000 people in film. Search plot summaries and cast and crew lists, and find bibliographic citations for related materials.

American Film Scripts Online
The full text of almost 500 film scripts searchable by character, scene, and genre types.

Twentieth Century North American Drama
Full-text of plays including related playbills, photographs, and ephemera.

RILM Abstracts (1969-present)
Citations and abstracts of scholarly journal articles as well as books, conference proceedings, films, and other formats. Covers all aspects of the field of music including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy.

LexisNexis Academic
Use the Guided News Search to search for full-text news articles in areas such as arts, entertainment, or sports, and for the full-text of news transcripts. Find movie, book, or performance reviews and transcripts from television and radio broadcasts. Also, search specific sources such as Billboard, Variety, Salon.com, or Realscreen.

ARTbibliographies Modern (1974 - present)
Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. Image searching tips

DAAI - Design & Applied Arts Index (1973-present)
DAAI contains references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, & firms, making it the largest index of its kind in the world. Coverage includes fashion, advertising, marketing, retail design, & packaging. Image searching tips

Ethnic NewsWatch (1990-present)
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), and conprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority, and native presses.

GenderWatch (1974-present)
Full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, reports, and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. Includes content on the impact of gender and gender roles on popular culture.

SocINDEX (1908 to the present)
Journal article, abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers from the literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

MAS Ultra (1975-present)
Full-text for more than 700 popular magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, and Essence.

Still and Moving Image Resources

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AP Images
Electronic library containing the Associated Press' current year's photo report and a selection of images dating from the 1840s. The Archive is international in scope and contains over 700,000 photos, most of which are contemporary images made since late 1995 with new images added daily. There is also a separate database containing graphics, maps, illustrations and logos prepared by AP graphic artists. They can be downloaded and opened as PDF files. The graphics database dates from January 1999 to present.

Artstor
300,000+ images. Subjects include architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, fashion, and graphic design as well as many other forms of visual culture.

Digital Image Collections
This is a selection of digital image collections and other image resources of interest to artists, architects, and art historians.

Luna Collections
View digitized maps, fine artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty renowned collections.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
An index to a collection of more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts dating back to 1968 from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN. The archive also includes more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. Video tape loans may be requested for reference, study, classroom instruction, and research. Additionaly, online video delivered through the RealOne media player is available for CNN news broadcasts from 1999 to the present.

Mid-twentieth Century and Earlier

Article Indexes

America History and Life (1954-present)
Covering the history of the United States and Canada, this database includes citations and abstracts to articles from over 1,700 journals dating back to 1954.

Art Index Retrospective (1929-1983)
Subjects Covered: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video. Image searching tips

American Periodical Series Online (1740-1940)
A collection of over 1000 periodicals that first began publishing in the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. Search the digitized images of the pages of special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, and children's and women's magazines.

Early American Imprints Series I (1639-1800) & Series II (1801-1819) and Early American Newspapers (1690-1876)
Full text collections of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and newspapers from the early decades of the United States documenting all apects of society and culture.

Anthropology Plus
Indexes the literature in anthropology from the late 19th century to the present. Topics in social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies are covered.

HarpWeek (1857-1912)
Full text of Harper's Weekly, an illustrated 19th century American newspaper. Browse by date, search by keyword, or search by topic.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature

New York Times, Historical (1851-2003)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

New York Times (microfilm)

19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Full page images of 19th century newspapers from throughout the U.S.

Eighteenth Century Journals II (1699-1812)
Digitized rare journals providing a broad representation of eighteenth century print culture.

Still and Moving Image Resources

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Ad* Access
Duke University's Ad*Access presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.

American Memory Project
Library of Congress - digital collections listed by twelve topics.

The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
Over 9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture.