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Find Articles: Indexes and Databases:
American History in Video
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- Connection note
- Recommended that each computer accessing the service has at least a high-speed internet connection
with minimum 400 kbps connection.
- Browser required
- Optimized to operate with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, and Firefox 3.0 or higher.
- Plugins required
- Adobe Flash Player
- Description
- American History in Video will include more than 5,000 films totaling approximately 2,000
hours when completed. Some are documentaries from PBS, WGBH Boston, The History Channel and other
sources. Others are primary historical resources such as newsreel films and footage from the
National Archives. All of the films include full-text transcripts.
The database allows keyword searching within full text, as well as within numerous indexes such as
speaker, place, and historical event.
- Help
- "Help" is available via a link in the menu bar at the top of every screen.
- User tools and features
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- Playlists can be created and shared.
- Instructors can create their own video clips for use in teaching.
- Selected content can be sent to a mobile device.
- RSS feeds.
- Dates covered
- Videos cover historical periods from 1492 - 2000.
- Updating frequency
- Ongoing additions until the collection is complete.
- Sources
- Newsreels, documentaries, archival footage.
- Type of coverage
- Streaming video and transcripts.
- Print counterpart or related resources
- Some of the titles included are held by the Media Library and may be found through a search of the
Library Catalog.
- Producer/content provider
- Various.
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Alexander Street Press
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