History @ CUL

Book Reviews in European History

There is a new, free metasearch tool that presents book reviews in European history. Recensio.net is intended to be “a Europe-wide, multi-language platform for reviews of historical literature.” It is a joint project of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) Munich, the German Historical Institute Paris (DHIP) and the Institute for European History (IEG) Mainz, and […]

Review: Altschuler’s and Blumin’s “The GI Bill”

The March, 2011 issue of Reviews in American History has a review of Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, The GI Bill: A New Deal for Veterans. An online version can be accessed through Project MUSE. (Remember, you can use the Library’s PassKey bookmarklet to help make it easier to get to licensed electronic […]

New National Archives Research Fellowship

The National Archives Foundation has announced a new fellowship for Ph.D. students and recent (within 5 years) Ph.D. recipients.  The fellowship will support research in the Center for Legislative Archives.  Here is the press release announcing the fellowship: Press Release March 31, 2011 The National Archives Announces New Research Fellowship for 2011 Washington, DC…Archivist of the […]

Book Discussion: Silbey’s “A War of Frontier and Empire?

An interview with David J. Silbey, the Associate Director of the Cornell in Washington program, about his book A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902, has been posted on the “New Books in Military History” discussion blog.You can listen at the site or download a copy for listening later.

Connected Histories: British History Sources, 1500-1900

A new index created by the University of Hertfordshire, the University of London, and the University of Sheffield and made available by the Institute of Historical Research is a remarkable free resource and suggests some of the ways that historical digital collections may develop. Connected Histories: British History Sources, 1500-1900, indexes a number of free […]

New journal: The Journal of the Civil War Era

The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Richards Civil War Era Center at The Pennsylvania State University, have started publication of a new journal, The Journal of the Civil War Era.  It has been designated the official journal of the Society of Civil War Historians. Vol. 1, no. 1 is housed in […]

Book Reviews: Silbey’s Party over Section

A new review of Joel Silbey’s book, Party over Section: The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848, was recently posted to the H-Net List, H-SHEAR. UPDATE: Here is a review in Civil War History: Matthew Isham. “Party over Section: The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848 (review).” Civil War History 57.2 (2011): 179-180. […]

New! British Records on the Atlantic World

CUL recently added a new digital resource of interest to faculty and students in many different areas.  It is British Records on the Atlantic World. The resource consists of 12 collections of manuscript material found in England.  Cornell was one of only a few institutions in the U.S. to have copies of the collections on […]

New 18th-19th Century American Digital Resources

Thanks to the generosity of a new gift to the Library, we have been able to purchase digitized versions of two 18th century newspaper collections: The Virginia Gazette from 1736–1780, and a collection of newspapers from South Carolina from 1732 to 1780.  The newspapers are part of the “Accessible Archives” collection to which the Library […]