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, […]

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 […]

New Database: European views of the Americas

EBSCO and the John Carter Brown Library have released a new free database of interest.  European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 is an online version of the bibliography entitled European Americana : a chronological guide to works printed in Europe relating to the Americas produced by the John Carter Brown Library. The database, […]