History @ CUL

British Online Archives: India in the records of the Governor-General

  British Online Archives (BOA) contains about 70 digitized collections of primary sources concerning the British Empire including Africa and India, and beyond, from 1700-early 20th century. Cornell subscribes to many of the collections, but not all. (Bookmark for off campus access: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/misc/7863096) We have a trial to the two collections below until September 23, […]

30 day trial to Church Missionary Society Periodicals

As of today, we have a 30 day trial to Church Missionary Society Periodicals Modules I and II– Church Missionary Society Periodicals, Module I: Global Missions and Contemporary Encounters, 1804-2009 Church Missionary Society Periodicals, Module II: Medical Journals, Asian Missions and the Historical Record, 1816-1986 Publisher description from the Adam Matthew website: Against the backdrop […]

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 […]

New Microfilm Collections at CRL

The Cornell University Library (CUL) is a member of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in Chicago. CRL owns approximately five million publications, archives, and collections that supplement Cornell’s humanities, science, and social science holdings. CUL users can borrow material for an unlimited period, making CRL’s collection in effect an extension of CUL’s own holdings. CRL […]

Review: The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China

David Sibley’s new book, The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, whose publication was announced here, has gotten a positive review in H-NET.  Reviewer James Carter writes in H-WAR: Military historian David J. Silbey’s book, The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, offers a much-needed and fresh telling of this series of events. […]

The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China

David Sibley’s new book, The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, was published today by Hill & Wang.  You can find an interview with David about the book in this month’s Military History magazine. Congratulations, David!

Ethnographic Video Online trial

Maureen Morris, the library’s selector for Anthropology, writes that she has arranged a trial of Ethnographic Video Online from Alexander Street Press (ASP).  This collection contains 608 films (1000 films when completed) and “it covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th […]

Trial access: ATLA Historical Monographs Collection

Kizer Walker, the Library’s Director of Collection Development, has arranged for trial access through 17 Dec. 2010 to the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection. The collection consists of 29,000 full-text titles focused on religion and theology divided into two series.  Series 1 consists of titles from the 13th Century through the 1893 […]