American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries
The Library has recently added to its digital collections American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries (APCRL). The collection consists of nearly 3 million pages of general interest magazines and trade journals from the period 1850-1920. Technology, industry, agriculture, medicine, and architecture are strongly represented. Most of them are not found in paper format [...]
Two New Military History Resources
We have recently added two new resources in military history that are sure to be of use to many. The International Bibliography of Military History is now available as an online volume. It was first published by the International Commission of Military History as the Bibliographie internationale d’histoire militaire. In 2012 Brill assumed publication responsibilities. It indexes [...]
Free Access to Fold3′s Black History Records in February
In honor of Black History Month, Fold3 is providing free access in February to its Black History Collection. The records, most of which have been scanned from the holdings of the National Archives. Here is a sample of what is being made available: Court Slave Records for Washington, DC South Carolina Estate Inventories and Bills [...]
Everyday Life & Women in America, c1800-1920
As part of a concerted an on-going effort to rebuild its collection budget, the Library has dedicated some funds to acquire important resources that it has had to forgo in the past. I am happy to announce the acquisition of the latest electronic primary source resource. “Everyday life & women in America c.1800-1920” is drawn [...]
Pinckney papers online
The newest additions to the Rotunda collection of The American Founding Era are The papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry. Here is a summary from the catalog record: The papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) and her daughter Harriott Pinckney Horry (1748-1830) document the lives of two observant and articulate founding-era women [...]
New Request System in RMC
Margaret Nichols from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) sends word of an important change in procedures: A few minutes past 8:00 am on Thursday, January 10, the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections inaugurated a new online registration and request system. The new system will allow patrons to do most of the [...]
Civil Rights Interviews
The Department of Special Collections and University Archives at Vanderbilt University has recently created a fascinating digital archive of primary sources compiled by Robert Penn Warren for his book “Who Speaks for the Negro?” In 1965, Warren traveled the country speaking to many civil rights leaders. The recorded interviews, transcripts, and associated correspondence and other [...]
Project MUSE Electronic Books
Project MUSE from the Johns Hopkins University Press has long been an important source for journals in electronic form, but did you know that it is now offering university press monographs as well? The University Press Content Consortium, which initially comprised 66 academic publishers, is offering many of its titles through Project MUSE. The utility [...]
Accessing Digitized Newspapers
The digitization of old newspapers is transforming their value as source material. It is now possible to search across millions of pages of scanned and OCRed papers. There are free resources, such as Chronicling America from the Library of Congress and the Fulton County history site (which provides access to an incredible 25 million pages [...]
Notable Reference Resources: The Complete Cambridge Histories Online
(cross-posted from the @ Olin & Uris Libraries blog) Looking for authoritative information and background on a historical event, period, or character? the literature of specific language? the evolution of the language itself? Search or browse the full text of the latest editions of the renowned Cambridge Histories series. The 250 titles comprising over 300 [...]
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