A-Z Resource List: D

A rich collection tailored for the dance community, offering a collection of multimedia resources — ranging from primary to secondary — that cater to scholars, educators, students, and enthusiasts alike. Featuring video performances, instructional materials, interviews, books, periodicals, and extensive archival materials across dance genres, these materials support focused explorations into dance history, technique, and cultural context.

The Digital Archive of the Russian National Bibliography aims to provide a complete collection of all chronicles (letopisi) that comprise the Russian National Bibliography published from 1917 to 2017. The complete collection consists of approximately 18,000 issues of which 8,600 issues have already been scanned and published online at letopisi.dlibrary.org. Scanning and online publishing work done to date represent approximately half of the complete target collection. At present the Archive is already the largest online collection of historic Russian national bibliography records with full image browsing and keyword searching functionality.

Digitalia Film Library has over 800 quality documentaries and films distributed in the following collections: Argentine Cinema, European Cinema, French Collection, History, Latin American Selection, Nature and Wildlife, North American Classic Cinema, Spanish Cinema, Cuban Cinema and Travel Documentary.

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) contains digitized declassified government documents preserved by the nonprofit research institute National Security Archive, covers U.S. foreign, military, and intelligence policy, chronicling critical world events from post-World War II through the 21st century. Digitized documents include presidential directives, essays, memoranda, policy papers, reports, telegrams, photos, and more.

A streaming video database of theater productions, including Shakespeare, classics, musical theater, dance, opera, and recent British productions.

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Access to primary sources, videos, and scholarly research relate to disability studies from around the globe covering the history of the social movements surrounding disability.

Includes local, regional, and national newspapers published by Klan organizations and by sympathetic publishers across the United States. It also includes the voices from several anti-Klan newspapers. The collection covers 1921-1932.

East View's collection of 10 rare newspapers from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine covers the period of military hostilities between the unrecognized states and the government of Ukraine (2013-2015), including when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down near the city of Torez in the Donetsk Oblast. With sources primarily in Russian, this database allows analysts and researchers unprecedented access to articles and reports from these insurgent regions at the most important and critical junctures.

The collection spans nearly a millennium of dramatic writing covering the historical canon of Western theatre from its earliest days right up to the key figures of the early 21st century. It provides the most studied and performed plays of canonical playwrights as well as their less well-known contemporaries, allowing for a comprehensive survey. Drama Texts Collection also delivers a rich additional database of related ephemera, including posters, playbills, photos, and theatre diagrams. Many of these items are drawn from the private collections of the playwrights themselves.