History @ CUL

Notice of Free Trial: Women’s Magazine Archive II

Cornell University Library currently has trial access to the Women’s Magazine Archive II, which includes the full runs of the following magazines: Cosmopolitan (1886 to 2005) Essence (1970 to 2005) Seventeen (1944 to 2005) Town and Country (1846 to 2005) Woman’s Day (1937 to 2005) Women’s International Network News (1975 to 2003) Cornell University Library has already purchased Women’s Magazine Archive […]

New: American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection!

Cornell now has access to American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection, a highly comprehensive digital collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912 which are held by the American Antiquarian Society (AAS).  Subject coverage includes: advertising, health, women’s issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, […]

30 day trial: American History in Video until November 11, 2017

We have a trial to this product until November 11, 2017. Access the collection through this special link:  http://proxy.library.cornell.edu/login?url=http://search.alexanderstreet.com/ahiv American History in Video is a collection of thousands of titles. Semantic indexing makes the entire collection powerfully cross-searchable. New, powerful tools and features let you navigate, access, re-purpose, and share video as never before. Contemporaneous footage American […]

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, […]

30 day trial to Church Missionary Society Periodicals

As of today, we have a 30 day trial to Church Missionary Society Periodicals Modules I and II– Church Missionary Society Periodicals, Module I: Global Missions and Contemporary Encounters, 1804-2009 Church Missionary Society Periodicals, Module II: Medical Journals, Asian Missions and the Historical Record, 1816-1986 Publisher description from the Adam Matthew website: Against the backdrop […]

New: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990

The Cornell Library has purchased access to a new digital collection, The American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990, one of the collections forming The Making of the Modern Law produced by Gale-Cengage. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has throughout its history consistently stood at the center of controversies involving the rights of Americans. Its […]

Smithsonian Collections Online

  Smithsonian Collections Online offer rich digitized primary source materials from the Smithsonian’s museums, libraries, and archives. Cornell now subscribes to these three collections:   Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry This collection is comprised of items selected from the National Museum of American History Archives Center and Smithsonian Libraries and covers approximately 1820-1926. […]

More Historical Newspapers

Over the summer the Library purchased the digital backfiles of three more historical newspapers: The Baltimore Sun, The New York Tribune/Herald Tribune, and The Globe and Mail.  All three of are available through the collection Proquest Historical Newspapers and can be searched individually or with the other titles in the collection. Cornell now has access […]

Gale’s Nineteenth Century Collections Online now available

Nineteenth Century Collections Online provides full-text, searchable content from a broad range of primary sources including a variety of material types: monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. Selected with guidance of an international team of experts, these primary sources cover a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study. They include […]

State Papers Online Eighteenth Century part I, 1714‐1782: Domestic – now available

State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, part 1: Domestic, Military, Naval and Reigsters of the Privy Council, represents the final section of the State Papers series from the National Archives in the UK before the series was closed and replaced by the Home Office and Foreign Office series in 1782. Covering the reigns of the […]

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