Access to over 1,500 plays by more than 500 American authors from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. The works range from melodramas to farces and from comedies to adaptations of Shakespeare. You can search through the work of David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller, among others.

More than 40,000 American poems from the 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes works by major poets such as Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson, as well as lesser-known names. Contains the complete text of each poem, plus notes and prefaces from the poets themselves. For teachers, students and researchers of American literature.

The Annotated Leading Cases contains rulings (including comments) from international criminal tribunals, such as the Yugoslavia Tribunal, Rwanda Tribunal and Sierra Leone Tribunal. An important resource for students, scholars, legal practitioners, judges, prosecutors and counsellors interested in the various legal aspects of international criminal justice.

Contains digital collections of historical documents organised by subject. From witchcraft from the Middle Ages to World War II and beyond. Including African American and American Indian studies, Asian studies, British history, Holocaust studies, LGBT studies and much more. The collections were chosen based on requests from scholars, archivists and students.

Religious and theological literature from the late 13th century to the parliament of world religions in 1893. Read about various religious topics, such as prayer, the Reformation, ethics, archaeology, spiritualism and much more, in different languages. For historians and anyone interested in knowing more about the role and substance of religion in earlier times.

Religious and theological literature from 1894 to 1922. Learn how America changed in the areas of doctrine, religion and society at the turn of the century. A must for scholars who want to understand how religion was perceived and practised at the time.

Database of the collected works by the German poet, literary critic and playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956). This digital edition is based on Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden - Jubiläumsausgabe zum 100. Geburtstag and includes brief notes with each text. For research and academic study of Brecht's oeuvre.

Online catalogue with descriptions of all newspapers in the KB collection. Find information about articles in national and international newspapers, news magazines and daily local newspapers published from 1640 to the present day. From the Algemeen Dagblad to the Zwolse Courant. For researchers.

Online catalogue with approximately 585,000 descriptions of individual letters and parts of correspondence written in the early-modern and modern period (ca. 1500 - present). Contains information about more than 2 million letters. The letters come from the collections of Dutch heritage institutions, including the KB. For researchers.

Online catalogue with descriptions of books, magazines and microfiches about music and sheet music from classical antiquity to the present day. Part of the collection can be checked out on loan. Contains codes to search for different instrumentations, for example for “string quartets”. For researchers and Dutch music enthusiasts.