Europeana Portal - The Europeana portal is our search engine for the digitised collections of museums, libraries, archives and galleries across Europe. Images may be downloaded.

Infomine - INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.

American Periodicals - Contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.

ARTstor - A searchable repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data. The collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Before you use ARTstor from home, please make sure to turn off any pop-up blockers and enable cookies on your computer. Images may be downloaded.

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index - A growing all-inclusive bibliographic spine for 19th-century research. C19 is a one-stop finding tool covering multiple content types, providing records for millions of documents ranging from books and newspapers to government documents and periodicals at the article level. Covers materials published from 1790 to 1919.

Internet Archive - A non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, images, movies, sound files & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.

JSTOR - A backfile of core journals in the arts and sciences, including a collections of journals focussed on environmental issues and economics, JSTOR contains millions of searchable pages in PDF format.

Google Art Project - A collaboration between Google and 151 acclaimed art partners from across 40 countries. Using a combination of various Google technologies and expert information provided by our museum partners, we have created a unique online art experience. Users can explore a wide range of artworks at brushstroke level detail, take a virtual tour of a museum and even build their own collections to share.

Making of America Collection - Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

MLA International Bibliography - Provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide from 1963 to the present. Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.

Project MUSE - With well over 100 journals in full-text, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others, searchable through Project Muse itself, or through the appropriate subject indexes.

Streaming Music Collections

DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) - The database of recorded American Music. Streaming music, can't be downloaded.

Naxos Music Library - Provides access over 80,000 tracks (5,500 CDs) from the entire Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues, plus other licensed independent labels.

Sound Effects CDs in Stevenson Library

BBC Sound Effects Library, v.1-60 - This is the original BBC commercial sound effects library and is composed of 2,400 of BBCÕs best sound effects from the BBCÕs top engineers. The BBC Original Sound Effects Library 1-60 is a truly versatile collection. Compiled on 60 audio CDs. Categories include international ambiences from Greece to Pakistan, animals, transportation, humans and more. These international sound effects were recorded in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South America and beyond.

Stevenson Library Reserves: CD286

The Century in Sound - Recordings of speeches by historic figures; historic musical recordings; field recordings of sounds from WWI and WWII; historic recordings of dramatic works; recordings of ordinary people talking about historic events.

Stevenson Library Reserves: CD 2597

"Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events occurred or well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories. Primary sources may include letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals, newspapers, speeches, interviews, memoirs, documents produced by government agencies such as Congress or the Office of the President, photographs, audio recordings, moving pictures or video recordings, research data, and objects or artifacts such as works of art or ancient roads, buildings, tools, and weapons. These sources serve as the raw material to interpret the past, and when they are used along with previous interpretations by historians, they provide the resources necessary for historical research." From the American Library Association's Reference and User Services Division.

Finding primary sources in our library:

Our collection is a rich repository of primary sources. From the papers of the presidents to Supreme Court decisions to interviews in documentaries to historical journals, make sure you search our catalog and ConnectNY as well as the online sources listed below.

Early to Mid-20th Century Periodicals Titles in our collection

(most are indexed in the paper copies of the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature on the first floor of Stevenson or C19)

American Historical Review 1928-
American Mercury 1929-54, 1957-58
American Review 1933-35
Business Week 1950-1981,1984-
Century Magazine's Scribner's Monthly 1882-1930
Christian Century 1934-
Commonweal 1927-1985,1987-1988,1992-
Current History 1941-1996,1981-
Fortnightly Review 1865-1931
Fortune 1930-1997,1999-
Golden Book 1926-1931
Atlantic 1857- (also called Atlantic Monthly)
Harper's 1913- (also called Harper's Monthly, Harper's Magazine, etc.)
Holiday 1949-1956,1957-1966,1967-1970
International Conciliation 1911-1972
Monthly Labor Review 1915-
Musical Quarterly 1915-1922,1924-1984,1985-1992, 1993-
National Geographic 1912-1920,1921-
Nature 1922-1932,1957-1960,{1961-1964 microfilm}, 1964-
New Outlook 1932-1934
North American Review 1835-1839,1868,1880-1881,1910-1940,{1915-1969 microfilm},1970-1994,1997-
Poetry 1921-1954,1956-
Political Science Quarterly 1924-1997,2000-
Life 1936-1972
Nation {1865-1965,1978-2005 microfilm} 1965-
New Republic 1914-1979,1981-2005-
Review of Reviews 1892-1897,1929-1931
Saturday Review of Literature 1924-51
Saturday Review, 1952-72, 1972-81, 1976, 1978-86
Science 1927-
Scribner's {1901-1939 microfilm}
Theatre Arts Monthly 1934-1947
Time 1923-
Virginia Quarterly Review 1941-
Vital Speeches of the Day 1948-1987
Wilson Bulletin 1942-1956,1959,1961-1970
Yale Review 1911-1928,1930-1990 {1982-1995 microfilm}

Finding primary sources on the web:

The websites listed below are collections of documents, oral histories, photographs, etc. An excellent guide to finding and evaluating primary sources on the web can be found at http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/.

Suggested Sources:

Hudson Valley River Heritage

EuroDocs (a portal for connecting to a multitude of sites with documents relating to European history in their original languages and in translation)

New York Times From 1851 to 3 Years Ago

LexisNexis Academic (for newspaper articles from the 1990s to yesterday)

The Avalon Project (documents in American history)

Gallica (documents in the National Library of France)

The American Memory Project

In the First Person (an index to personal narratives)

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive

Primary Source Documents in Early American History (be careful, this is a list of links on a constitutionalist website, some of the links are broken)

Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States and the American Frontier (A bilingual, multi-format English-Spanish digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United States in America from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.)

Rochambeau Map Collection (The Rochambeau Map Collection contains cartographic items used by Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), when he was commander in chief of the French expeditionary army (1780-82) during the American Revolution. The maps were from Rochambeau's personal collection, cover much of eastern North America, and date from 1717 to 1795. The maps show Revolutionary-era military actions, some of which were published in England and France, and early state maps from the 1790s.)

Virtual Jamestown

The TransAtlantic Slave Trade Database: Voyages

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: The Cold War

Finding primary sources outside our library:

Archives are collections of unique, original documents organized by donor and subject matter. The contents of many archives are cataloged on ArchiveGrid. Once records of documents in a collection are found, a researcher usually contacts the archive to arrange a time to visit. Each archive has its own rules about how its materials may be handled. Make sure you understand and are prepared to do your research within the constraints of the institution you are visiting.

Studies of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages - This is the official blog of The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages, a community of scholars and enthusiasts organized to promote and foster scholarship on and teaching and discussion of representations of the medieval in post-medieval popular culture and mass media. Encompassing material produced from the close of the Middle Ages to today, these medievalisms can be categorized as survivals, revivals, or re-creations of the medieval in post-medieval eras.

MEMO: Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organizer -- Useful Links - The Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO) is interested in digitalized medievalism (DVD, television, electronic games, Second Life,...) including neomedievalism.

Dante Today: Citings & Sightings of Dante's Work in Contemporary Culture - This experimental website, inspired by students of Arielle Saiber’s “Dante’s Divine Comedy” course, has been built to archive occurrences of Dante and his works in popular and contemporary culture of the twentieth century and beyond.