History @ CUL

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 […]

New at Cornell: British Periodicals

This just in:  British Periodicals! This digital collection allows searching full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture. More information and complete title list and […]

Explore Victorian Popular Culture

We’re excited to announce Cornell access to Adam Matthew’s Victorian Popular Culture, a unique archival resource for four fascinating areas of 19th British century life: (1) Spiritualism, Sensation & Magic; (2) Circuses, Sideshows & Freaks; (3) Music Hall, Theatre & Popular Entertainment; (4) Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments & the Advent of Cinema.  In addition to […]

New Resource: Eighteenth Century British Journals

Eighteenth Century Journals, A portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c.1685-1835 This resource focuses on the British Empire. It consists of five sections. Currently Cornell only subscribes to Section III. Materials for this section are drawn from two sources: the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London and Cambridge University Library. This section focuses on journals published […]

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 […]

Announcing One Week Trial to Proquest Civil War Era Digital Collection

City Point, Virginia, ca. 1865. image from Library of Congress Civil War Photograph Collection. City Point, Virginia, ca. 1865.   Format: Abstract and index, full text, full image, Text+Graphics Media: Electronic/Online Coverage: 1840-1865 Total Sources Covered: 8 newspapers, 2000 pamphlets ProQuest Civil War Era covers a range of topics including the formative economic factors 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 […]

Black Abolitionist Papers (1830-1865) –Trial until Oct 24 2013

ProQuest’s Black Abolitionist Papers (1830-1865) is a primary source collection detailing the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the massive, international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings and publications of the activists themselves. The […]

Easier path to online primary source collections

You asked for it, and we provided it. Kinda. But you will like it, we guarantee it. We’ve made it easier to find online collections of primary sources. Here’s how: In the upper part of the library home page, click on “Database Names” then click on the “Browse by Subject or Name” link that appears […]

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