The following database products are included in the free trial offer:

• Classical Music Library — A comprehensive resource of distinguished classical recordings, including tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet.
• Theatre in Video — More than 500 hours of the world's most important plays, together with 100-plus video documentaries, online in streaming video.
• World Literature — All of Alexander Street Press’s culturally diverse literature and drama databases brought together under one platform, highlighting authors from around the globe.
• American Civil War Research Database — An online resource for researching the individuals, regiments and battles of the American Civil War, with information on 4.3 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 16,000 photographs.
• Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives and Reference Works — Transcripts of actual therapy sessions, with extensive first-person accounts, including diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories and personal memoirs.

Letters and Diaries Online is a compilation of social and cultural history databases offering personal, contemporaneous and first-person accounts of history as experienced by the individuals who lived through and created it. Letters and Diaries Online offers full-text views of the following databases:

• North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 — Essential for research in women’s studies, history, sociology, literature, genealogy and other fields, this collection spans more than 300 years of women’s diaries and correspondence presenting their personal experiences.
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries — Extending back to the 1500s, the database brings together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, providing a view of history in the context of women’s thoughts and writings, their struggles, achievements, passions, pursuits and desires.
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories — With more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies and oral histories (much of it previously unpublished), users will get a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1840 and 1920.
• The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries — Interlacing more than 400 sources of diaries, letters and memoirs, scholars can read letters written by Amos Wood and his family, illustrating what life was like for a Massachusetts family separated by the war.
• Black Thought and Culture — Non-fiction writings by major American black leaders, including teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers and other figures, covering 250 years of thought on what it is to be black in America.
• Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society, 1750-1950 — Available in May, this unique database presents 100,000 pages of the personal writings of women of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

To sign up for a free trial to any of these databases, contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org). She can also answer subscription and pricing questions.