History @ CUL

5th Floor of Olin Closing on 1 Nov.

The 25 October Olin Fire Safety Update has news that will have great impact on users of Olin’s History call numbers (D and E): On Monday, November 1 at 6 a.m. the 5th floor will completely close and construction will begin. The floor is tentatively scheduled to reopen no later than December 17. The exact […]

New Database: European views of the Americas

EBSCO and the John Carter Brown Library have released a new free database of interest.  European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 is an online version of the bibliography entitled European Americana : a chronological guide to works printed in Europe relating to the Americas produced by the John Carter Brown Library. The database, […]

Book Reviews: Cowie’s Stayin’ Alive

Librarians often come across book reviews as we peruse the literature.  As we become aware of new reviews of CU faculty books, we will update an entry with the links.  The first book included in this new service is Jefferson Cowie’s Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (New Press: […]

Visualizing Analysis in U.S. History

Can complex patterns and trends in history be depicted visually?  One interesting attempt to do so are Timeplots.  Here is how the Timeplots web site describes their initiative: Timeplots tells complex stories in visual form. Our first completed public project is a three-part series of large-scale prints visualizing U.S. political institutions: Visual Histories of the […]

Prof. Norton and the Founding Fathers

Last week the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announced that it was funding the University of Virginia Press to create a web site that will provide free access to most of the papers of the Founding Fathers. The announcement also included news of the appointment of a new advisory board to guide the development […]

ICPSR webinar features “New Orleans Slave Sample 1804-1862”

The ICPSR Social Sciences Data Fair is coming in November. As part of the activities, it is featuring a number of free webinars that are open to all faculty and students. One, offered by Jim Oberly of the Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, may be of particular interest. On Thursday, 11 November, from […]

Historians and Digital Scholarship

A recent news article in the Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a survey of the attitudes of 4,000 historians to digital scholarship. The survey “found that most are willing to try digital scholarship—such as interactive maps or online databases—but that the number of journals interested in publishing such online scholarship is tiny.” The journals […]