History @ CUL

More Digitized Historical Newspapers Available

As part of its effort to return the Cornell University Library to its position among the top ten academic institutions in terms of collections support, the Library has started to draw down on funds that have been in reserve for a range of projects and divert them to collections support.We were able to make several […]

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

At the urging of several faculty in the History Department and at ILR, the Library has acquired access to the digital version of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP).  HCPP includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. It offers page images and […]

Digital Microfilm at The National Archives (UK)

The National Archives in the UK has an exciting new initiative.  Called “Digital Microfilm,” it is PDF versions of microfilm reels that can be downloaded for free.  The PDFs are quite large and the records have not been indexed so you will need to scroll through them, much as you would when using a microfilm.  […]

Full-text links added to 19th Century Masterfile

Many Cornell historians know about 19th Century Masterfile, the online version of many standard 19th century periodical indexes, including Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906, the Index to Legal Periodical Literature, 1786-1937, and the Royal Society’s Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900.  But did you know that it has been adding links to a variety of […]

Book Reviews in European History

There is a new, free metasearch tool that presents book reviews in European history. Recensio.net is intended to be “a Europe-wide, multi-language platform for reviews of historical literature.” It is a joint project of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) Munich, the German Historical Institute Paris (DHIP) and the Institute for European History (IEG) Mainz, and […]

Connected Histories: British History Sources, 1500-1900

A new index created by the University of Hertfordshire, the University of London, and the University of Sheffield and made available by the Institute of Historical Research is a remarkable free resource and suggests some of the ways that historical digital collections may develop. Connected Histories: British History Sources, 1500-1900, indexes a number of free […]

New! British Records on the Atlantic World

CUL recently added a new digital resource of interest to faculty and students in many different areas.  It is British Records on the Atlantic World. The resource consists of 12 collections of manuscript material found in England.  Cornell was one of only a few institutions in the U.S. to have copies of the collections on […]

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 […]

Best Historical Reference Materials: 2009

Each year a committee in the History Section of the American Libraries Association selects what it feels are the best historical reference materials published in the previous year.  The list for 2009 was recently published, and includes three print bibliographies and four free websites.  The websites are: Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History Online. […]

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 […]

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