History @ CUL

Smithsonian Collections Online

  Smithsonian Collections Online offer rich digitized primary source materials from the Smithsonian’s museums, libraries, and archives. Cornell now subscribes to these three collections:   Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry This collection is comprised of items selected from the National Museum of American History Archives Center and Smithsonian Libraries and covers approximately 1820-1926. […]

Gale’s Nineteenth Century Collections Online now available

Nineteenth Century Collections Online provides full-text, searchable content from a broad range of primary sources including a variety of material types: monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. Selected with guidance of an international team of experts, these primary sources cover a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study. They include […]

State Papers Online Eighteenth Century part I, 1714‐1782: Domestic – now available

State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, part 1: Domestic, Military, Naval and Reigsters of the Privy Council, represents the final section of the State Papers series from the National Archives in the UK before the series was closed and replaced by the Home Office and Foreign Office series in 1782. Covering the reigns of the […]

Gale’s Slavery & Anti-Slavery digital collection –parts II-IV now available

Gale’s Slavery & Anti-Slavery collection consists of four parts: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World Part III: Institution of Slavery Part IV: Age of Emancipation From the Gale site: Part II, The Slave Trade in the Atlantic World  covers the inception of slavery […]

African Blue Books, 1821-1953 – now available online

About “African Blue Books, 1821-1953” from the British Online Archives site: The Blue Book was a key item of considerable standing in 19th century colonial administration. With a particular focus on the latter nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the focus of these Blue Books is upon economic development; imports, exports and each territory’s balance […]

Colonial State Papers Online – now available

[Proquest] Colonial State Papers Online Colonial State Papers Online provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Colonial State Papers integrates two important research tools as one service: Collection CO 1 from The National Archives (full name: Privy Council and […]

30 day trial: Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)

Gale’s Nineteenth Century Collections Online is a rich digital collection of primary source material. Rare primary sources, curated by an international team of experts, provide access to important works sourced from leading libraries worldwide. Users will find millions of full-text, fully searchable pages. The trial runs roughly March 18-April 18, 2014. Access via: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cornell?id=cornell&db=NCCO or […]

Announcing “Slavery and the Law”

  Proquest History Vault: Slavery and the Law: Race, slavery, and free Blacks petitions to southern legislatures and southern county courts. Announcing the arrival of this new digital collection. The Slavery and the Law collection provides testimony on a broad range of subjects by a variety of southerners—Black and white, slave and free, slaveholder and […]

Past FBI surveillance provides rich source material for present & future historians

Cornell University Library has purchased access to two new digital collections from Gale Cengage Learning’s Archives Unbound. They are available to Cornellians via the links below or through the library catalogs by title.   Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920–1984 Summary Between the early 1920s and early 1980s, the Justice Department and its Federal Bureau […]

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 […]

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