Research Guides: Musical Theatre History: Place &amp; Time Context

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American Decades Series by Vincent Tompkins (Editor); Victor Bondi (Editor); Judith Baughman
Call Number: Stacks 973.9 A5125 - 5th floor. Also available online.
ISBN: 9780787650766
Social history and analysis in fashion, art, politics, social life, religion, and more, browsable one decade at a time from the 1900s through the 1990s.
American Decades Primary Sources by Cynthia Rose (Editor)
Call Number: Available online.
ISBN: 9780787665876
Incudes oral histories, songs, speeches, ads, play and movie scripts, letters, newspaper articles, recipes, and more.

"How to Use American Decades" - created September 2020, 7 minutes.

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Transitioning to Artstor on JSTOR | JSTOR Images. This resource will migrate to a new platform on June 1, 2024. Features images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. It is a comprehensive image resource, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else.
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New Artstor platform. Features images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. It is a comprehensive image resource, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else.

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A large, user-friendly statistics portal with a global scope. Find infographics, in-depth dossiers and reports, and Powerpoint slides, along with original source details.

World Factbook
Information about the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for entities around the world.
U.N. Data
A keyword searchable database of over 60 million data records compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies. Includes lists of country and regional profiles.
World Bank Open Data
A large collection of databases covering global development data.
World Bank Open Data by TOPIC
Browse by topic within World Bank Open Data.
World Statistics Pocketbook
Annual compilation of key statistical indicators prepared by the United Nations. Up to 50 indicators from more than 20 international statistical sources in one-page profiles for 30 world geographical regions and over 200 countries or areas of the world.
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