New Database: American History in Video
By Lura Sanborn - Reference Librarian January 21st, 2010
Ohrstrom Library is pleased to announce its subscription to American History in Video. This database provides access to over 5,000 titles from the 1920s to 2008 including: newsreels, documentaries and government footage.
Every video includes a complete and fully searchable transcript, readable alongside the video.
Videos can be selected from the database by keyword searching, or by multiple categories, including: subjects, historical eras, years, historical events, people, places and topics. Consider browsing by year to locate primary source videos created during the time period you are studying.
Click HERE to access the database.
To cite this source, be sure to give credit to both the creator of the video and to the database.
Example:
Burns, Ken, dir. Civil War. Episode 3, Forever Free (1862). PBS, 1990.
American History in Video. Web. 12 Dec. 2009. <http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com/Playlists/326964>.
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