History @ CUL

Four digital collections trials from Adam Matthew

The following collections are available: American Consumer Culture, 1935-1965 (new) American Indian Histories and Cultures The First World War Portal (part 3: Visual Perspectives and Narratives is new) Global Commodities   The resources will be available at the following URL for the next four weeks (ending on the 13/10/2014): www.consumerculture.amdigital.co.uk www.aihc.amdigital.co.uk www.firstworldwar.amdigital.co.uk www.globalcommodities.amdigital.co.uk   Please […]

New at Cornell: Black Abolitionist Papers

Black Abolitionist Papers is now available at Cornell. This digital collection consists of primary sources. It presents the international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings and publications of the activists themselves. Covering the period 1830-1865, the approximately 15,000 articles, documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works of almost 300 Black abolitionists […]

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 “Slavery and the Law”

  Proquest History Vault: Slavery and the Law: Race, slavery, and free Blacks petitions to southern legislatures and southern county courts. Announcing the arrival of this new digital collection. The Slavery and the Law collection provides testimony on a broad range of subjects by a variety of southerners—Black and white, slave and free, slaveholder and […]

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 […]

Past FBI surveillance provides rich source material for present & future historians

Cornell University Library has purchased access to two new digital collections from Gale Cengage Learning’s Archives Unbound. They are available to Cornellians via the links below or through the library catalogs by title.   Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920–1984 Summary Between the early 1920s and early 1980s, the Justice Department and its Federal Bureau […]

Founders Online is Here

It has been a long time coming (when the Archivist of the US first announced it, he promised a prototype site for Sept., 2011), but Founders Online is finally here.  It makes freely available online the historical documents of the Founders of the United States of America.  Professor Mary Beth Norton was one of a […]

American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries

The Library has recently added to its digital collections  American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries (APCRL).  The collection consists of nearly 3 million pages of general interest magazines and trade journals from the period 1850-1920. Technology, industry, agriculture, medicine, and architecture are strongly represented. Most of them are not found in paper format […]

Two New Military History Resources

We have recently added two new resources in military history that are sure to be of use to many. The International Bibliography of Military History is now available as an online volume.  It was first published by the International Commission of Military History as the Bibliographie internationale d’histoire militaire.  In 2012 Brill assumed publication responsibilities.  It indexes […]

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 […]

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