History @ CUL

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 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 […]

New Microfilm Collections at CRL

The Cornell University Library (CUL) is a member of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in Chicago. CRL owns approximately five million publications, archives, and collections that supplement Cornell’s humanities, science, and social science holdings. CUL users can borrow material for an unlimited period, making CRL’s collection in effect an extension of CUL’s own holdings. CRL […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

4 New Proquest Newspaper Titles

The Library has added four new titles to the ProQuest Historical Newspapers collection online: The Chicago Defender, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Times of India.  Each title offers full page and article PDFs with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection provides access to every page from every […]