History @ CUL

Free Access to Fold3’s Black History Records in February

In honor of Black History Month, Fold3 is providing free access in February to its Black History Collection.  The records, most of which have been scanned from the holdings of the National Archives.  Here is a sample of what is being made available: Court Slave Records for Washington, DC South Carolina Estate Inventories and Bills […]

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, […]

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 […]

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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