History @ CUL

ScanIt

What is ScanIt? You may have noticed a new option at the bottom of records in the new catalog for “request a scan of an article or chapter.”  When you click that button, you’ll be asked to log in to the Interlibrary Loan/My Document system in order to place the request. The Library has had […]

The Fiske Icelandic Collection in the Cornell University Library

A guest contribution by Patrick J. Stevens. I don’t see your point as to [Ludvig Franz Adalbert] Wimmer’s book on runes. The runes form the oldest known form of the Icelandic language. You might as well object to any of the oldest skaldic lays, produced in Norway […] that they had nothing to do with […]

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 […]

New journal: The Journal of the Civil War Era

The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Richards Civil War Era Center at The Pennsylvania State University, have started publication of a new journal, The Journal of the Civil War Era.  It has been designated the official journal of the Society of Civil War Historians. Vol. 1, no. 1 is housed in […]

Best Historical Reference Materials: 2009

Each year a committee in the History Section of the American Libraries Association selects what it feels are the best historical reference materials published in the previous year.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. […]

Visualizing Analysis in U.S. History

Can complex patterns and trends in history be depicted visually?  One interesting attempt to do so are Timeplots.  Here is how the Timeplots web site describes their initiative: Timeplots tells complex stories in visual form. Our first completed public project is a three-part series of large-scale prints visualizing U.S. political institutions: Visual Histories of the […]