Archive for the 'history' Category

ABC Clio History Databases Now from EBSCO

November 7, 2007

America History and Life and Historical Abstracts, formerly from ABC Clio, are now available via the EBSCO platform. Complete content is available, plus the following EBSCO features:

Combine searches with over a dozen other EBSCO databases
Set journal tables of contents or “saved search” alerts and get new results delivered to you by email or RSS
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Additions to British Periodicals Collection

September 21, 2007

British Periodicals Collection I consists of more than 160 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals, the equivalent of 5,238 printed volumes containing approximately 3.1 million pages. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.
NYU Libraries has now added access to British Periodicals Collection II:
More than [...]

The Communist Party of the USA: 90 Years of History

August 16, 2007

The Communist Party traces its origins to the militant labor struggles of the early years of the twentieth-century. It was forged by the industrial union movement of the 1910s, opposition to World War I, and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Throughout its history the Communist Party and the nearly one million people who were [...]

The Continuing History of the Spanish Civil War: A Tamiment Library Symposium

April 23, 2007

April 27, 2007 - 4 PM - 8 PM
Tamiment Library, 70 Washington Square South (West 4th Street between Greene and LaGuardia), 10th Floor
Co-sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
This symposium celebrates the opening of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives that was preserved and processed with assistance from the National Endowment for Humanities.
Program details
An exhibit of [...]

History, General Reference Databases on Trial

February 26, 2007

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Early Encounters in North America
Publisher’s description: “Painstakingly assembled from hundreds of sources, Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850.
Ancestry Library Edition
Search and display U.S. census records, passenger lists, and more [...]

RLG’s Archival Resources Now Called ArchiveGrid

July 7, 2006

ArchiveGridSM is RLG’s international Web site describing primary sources. ArchiveGrid is the most thorough research tool available for material on family and corporate histories, personal papers, and historical records. ArchiveGrid provides direct search access to dispersed collections and meaningful, comprehensive collection descriptions written by archivists. Scholars can easily locate relevant research institutions, arrange visits, or [...]

History, Economics, Music, Politics Resources from NYU Libraries

July 3, 2006

 

CQ Press Political Reference Suite
The Making of the Modern World (Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library Jazz
Reference Universe
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926