Free Database Trial: American History in Video

This trial is available to all. NO login/password is required during the trial. The name of this new database from Alexander Street Press is American History in Video and is available at: http://ahivfree.alexanderstreet.com. In a word, wow!

From a Description:

This is a massive, first-of-its kind collection of streaming video covering the entire gamut of American history–it will total 2,000 hours of video / 5,000 total videos at completion (currently it’s at about 420 hours and growing fast). It includes a wide range of documentaries (like those from The History Channel), newsreels–including the complete series of both Universal News and United Newsreel–and other contemporaneous films. It’s all deeply indexed, and the technical features make it easy to zoom in on exact moments of footage, make clips, create playlists (of clips by theme, entire films, and anything else anywhere on th e Web) and share them with a class, for example.There are synchronized scrolling transcripts for every video (and those are searchable, too).

The free trial runs through April 30, 2009.

Source: Alexander Street Press