History @ CUL

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 […]

Civil Rights Interviews

The Department of Special Collections and University Archives at Vanderbilt University has recently created a fascinating digital archive of primary sources compiled by Robert Penn Warren for his book “Who Speaks for the Negro?”  In 1965, Warren traveled the country speaking to many civil rights leaders.  The recorded interviews, transcripts, and associated correspondence and other […]

Project MUSE Electronic Books

Project MUSE from the Johns Hopkins University Press has long been an important source for journals in electronic form, but did you know that it is now offering university press monographs as well? The University Press Content Consortium, which initially comprised 66 academic publishers, is offering many of its titles through Project MUSE. The utility […]

Accessing Digitized Newspapers

The digitization of old newspapers is transforming their value as source material.  It is now possible to search across millions of pages of scanned and OCRed papers.  There are free resources, such as Chronicling America from the Library of Congress and the Fulton County history site (which provides access to an incredible 25 million pages […]

Notable Reference Resources: The Complete Cambridge Histories Online

(cross-posted from the @ Olin & Uris Libraries blog) Looking for authoritative information and background on a historical event, period, or character? the literature of specific language? the evolution of the language itself? Search or browse the full text of the latest editions of the renowned Cambridge Histories series. The 250 titles comprising over 300 […]

Oxford Bibliographies

As part of a joint purchase with our partner library at Columbia, CUL will be adding 15 of the Oxford Bibliographies Online to our electronic holdings.  The first of these, Atlantic History and Medieval Studies, are now listed in the catalog; the others should be activated shortly.  Among the topics being added are Renaissance & […]

Digital Resources for the Republic of Letters

A recent review in Reviews in History from the Institute of Historical Research praises the project called Cultures of Knowledge (Cofk).  CofK offers a platform on which early modern intellectual historians can meet virtually and exchange knowledge about early modern networks through the study of their correspondence. The reviewer notes that “the site structure makes […]

Expanded Access to NEHGS databases

For a number of years now, the Library has subscribed to 200 data sources made available in electronic form by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS).  NEHGS does not allow remote access to its American Ancestors web site; one had to use a computer in Olin Library in order to consult the resources. We […]

Google Scholar Citations

Google has added a new free feature to its Google Scholar database that may be of interest.  Google Scholar Citations allows you to build a profile of your scholarly work.  That profile can be either public or private.  (My profile is here; Google is using Richard Feynman’s profile as an example.) Once your profile is […]

Three new database trials

Readex has offered us trial access through 14 September to two new additions to its digitized newspapers collection, of which we currently own 4 series.  Both can be accessed via the record in the catalog for America’s Historical Newspapers. Series 8 and Series 9 of Early American Newspapers include full runs through 1922 of important, […]

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