History @ CUL

Notice of Free Trial: Women’s Magazine Archive II

Cornell University Library currently has trial access to the Women’s Magazine Archive II, which includes the full runs of the following magazines: Cosmopolitan (1886 to 2005) Essence (1970 to 2005) Seventeen (1944 to 2005) Town and Country (1846 to 2005) Woman’s Day (1937 to 2005) Women’s International Network News (1975 to 2003) Cornell University Library has already purchased Women’s Magazine Archive […]

New: American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection!

Cornell now has access to American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection, a highly comprehensive digital collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912 which are held by the American Antiquarian Society (AAS).  Subject coverage includes: advertising, health, women’s issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, […]

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 […]

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. […]

More Historical Newspapers

Over the summer the Library purchased the digital backfiles of three more historical newspapers: The Baltimore Sun, The New York Tribune/Herald Tribune, and The Globe and Mail.  All three of are available through the collection Proquest Historical Newspapers and can be searched individually or with the other titles in the collection. Cornell now has access […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

New: Artemis Primary Sources for Text Analysis

Artemis is the Greco-Roman goddess of the hunt. Artemis isn’t a digital collection; it’s an interface, a platform, a tool that allows researchers to hunt, to do more sophisticated analysis collectively of all the Gale digital primary source collections. These would be collections such as The Making of the Modern World (MoMW) and Eighteenth Century […]

Two trials to University of Virginia Rotunda Digital Collections

The Papers of John Marshall John Marshall was the longest-serving chief justice on the U.S. Supreme Court and arguably the most influential. Under his direction, the judicial branch achieved equality with the other branches of government and constitutionality was established as the crucial element in court decisions. This digital edition of Marshall’s papers includes the […]

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