Literature & Humanities

Artstor Digital Library

Features a wide range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. First time users will need to create an account (free through the library).

Brittanica Image Quest

Offers nearly 3 million images rights-cleared for non-commercial, educational use and are perfect for creating exciting and visually engaging projects and presentations.

Biography in Context

Includes more than 600,000 biographies on more than 500,000 people and integrates video, audio, podcasts, primary sources, and images.

Biography Reference Center

Provides thousands of biographies. In addition to keyword search, users can locate biographies by subject occupation, activity, nationality, gender, birthplace and more.

U.S. History in Context

Find comprehensive coverage of the most-studied topics, from the arrival of Vikings in North America 1,000 years ago to Vietnam, Watergate and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

World History in Context

Reaches back to the ancient world and forward to today's headlines. Provides an overview of world history that covers the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, and people.

History Reference Center

Includes full text for 150 leading history periodicals and features more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias, and non-fiction books.

Overdrive

Provides access to downloadable audiobooks, ebooks, and magazines. Requires your CMC ID number.

Hoopla

Offers over 300,000 movies, TV shows, music albums, audiobooks, ebooks, and comics. First time users will need to create a personal hoopla account by providing an email address and creating a password of their choice. When asked to enter library card number and library pin, use your standard CMC username and password instead. If your CMC password changes, you will need to update the library pin field in hoopla to re-authenticate your account.

Docuseek

Offers access to over 2,200 documentary films covering a variety of topics with a focus on environmental and social justice issues.

Films on Demand

Provides access to over 35,000 educational videos covering a wide variety of disciplines.

Kanopy

Offers access to a large, curated collection of educational, entertaining, and enriching films.

• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

  "Presents the Met’s collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history. Targeted at students and scholars of art history, it is an invaluable reference, research, and teaching tool."

• Met Publications

  A portal to the Met's comprehensive publishing program with 1,500 titles, including books, online publications, and Bulletins and Journals from the last five decades.

• Getty Virtual Library

  Free digital back list titles from the Getty Publications Archives. Includes exhibition catalogs, journals, symposium publications and more.

• Chicago Art Institute Online Scholarly Catalogues

  Each digital catalogue contains in-depth curatorial and conservation research on the museum’s collection, including high-resolution, zoomable images, and other interactive elements.

• smarthistory

  Smarthistory is the official provider of art history for khanacademy.org, supporting students, instructors, and lifelong learners everywhere.

• Google Art Project

  Museums large and small, classic and modern, world-renowned and community-based from over 40 countries have contributed more than 40,000 high-resolution images of works ranging from oil on canvas to sculpture and furniture. Some paintings are available in ‘gigapixel’ format, allowing you to zoom in at brushstroke level to examine incredible detail. Use Google Street View to explore the interiors of landmarks such as the Palace of Versailles and The White House. Or, build and share your own virtual art gallery.

• National Gallery Technical Bulletin

  The National Gallery Technical Bulletin, first published in 1977, has achieved a leading position in the study of the materials and techniques of painting, and the scientific examination of paintings. Published annually, it is essential reading for conservators, conservation scientists, art historians, collectors and curators.

• Conservation Perspectives, Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter

  Featuring articles and discussions on areas of conservation practice and on projects and activities of the Conservation Institute.

• Yale University Library Technical Art History and Conservation Research LibGuide

• Art21 

  Documentary videos and resources about contemporary art and artists.

• MoMAvideos (YouTube channel)

  Lectures, interpretations of specific art works, information on teaching with art, and more.

• The Art Assignment (YouTube channel)

  The Art Assignment is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Green. Videos contain assignments developed by working artists for viewers to complete at home.

• Artists Space (YouTube channel)

  Founded in 1972, Artists Space has successfully contributed to the changing institutional and economic landscape of contemporary art in New York City for more than three decades, lending support to emerging ideas and emerging artists alike.

• Walker Art Center (YouTube channel)

  Overviews of exhibits. Interviews with artists, and art talk panels.

• Google Art Project (YouTube channel)

  Features art talks, collection overviews, and information about the Cultural Institute and Art Project.

• Crash Course World History

This amusing video course is based on the 2012 AP World History curriculum, from growing the first crops in the First Agricultural Revolution to global textile production in the 2010s.

• Crash Course US History

This course will teach you the history of the United States of America! Based off of the 2013 AP US History curriculum.