Colgate University Libraries News and Events

Titles in Rotunda's American Founding Era collection have been added.  The collection includes the digital editions of the papers of a number of early presidents which are now searchable by keyword or browsable in context and cross-linked.  Collections include -

• The Documentary History of Ratifications of the Constitution
• The Papers of George Washington
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
• The Adams Papers Digital Edition
• The Dolley Madison Digital Edition
• The Papers of James Madison (forthcoming)

The African American historian, Carter G. Woodson, first conceived of the idea of a Negro History Week (which later became Black History Month). He envisioned a celebration of black history and achievement as well as an educational forum. The first annual celebration took place in 1926. It was held during the 2nd week of February in honor of the birthdays of African American scholar Frederick Douglass and former United States president Abraham Lincoln.
 
The Colgate University Libraries have numerous resources for learning about African American history and experience. Some examples include:

Encyclopedias
Oxford African American Studies Center
Civil Rights Movement: People and Perspectives
Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience, Case Ref - DT14 .A37435 2005
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history: the Black experience in the Americas
Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture
Slavery in the United States: A social, political, and historical encyclopedia
Harlem Renaissance
 
Newspapers & Magazines
Ethnic NewsWatch
African American Newspapers: the 19th Century
African American Newspapers - 1827 - 1998 (Newsbank)
 
Scholarly Articles
America: History and Life
Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database
 
Primary Sources
African American frontiers : slave narratives and oral histories
Black Literature Index
Oxford African American Studies Center
Antebellum slave narratives : cultural and political expressions of Africa, CASE Main - E444 .A73 2009  
 
Many other resources are available from the Libraries' African American Studies page or by searching in the Library Catalog.
 
Note: The text was adapted from an article by Marian Aguiar in the Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The photo is by Robert Scurlock, Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. The text and photo are available from the Oxford African American Studies Center.

 

ABC-Clio ebooks
Belligerents, Brinksmanship and the Big Stick
This encyclopedia offers authoritative coverage of the concepts, traditions, events, and individuals that shaped United States' foreign relations from the American Revolution to the present.

Canada and Arctic North America : an Environmental History
A comprehensive treatment of the environmental history of northern North America offers a compelling account of the complex encounters of people, technology, culture, and ecology that shaped modern-day Canada and Alaska.

Creation Myths of the World
A resource on creation myths from around the world—their narratives, themes, motifs, similarities, and differences—and what they reveal about their cultures of origin.

Gay and Lesbian Rights (2nd edition)
This thoroughly updated edition provides readers with the background and resources needed to understand one of the important civil rights issues of our time.

Koreas
Asia in Focus: The Koreas is the most complete, accessible, and up-to-date resource available on both North Korea and South Korea.

Sharpe Online Reference
Offering a unique, interdisciplinary approach to U.S. History and Culture, Sharpe Online Reference (SOLR) explores the broad range of events, people, movements, and political, social, economic, and cultural issues that have shaped the nation from colonial times to the present day.
American Presidential Campaigns and Elections 1788-2008

American Social Movements

Colonial America

Encyclopedia of American folklife

Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive era

Encyclopedia of the great depression and the new deal

Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age

Postwar America (1945 to the Present) : An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History

Social issues in America

 
Oxford Digital Reference Collection
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
This multivolume reference work is a comprehensive overview of the major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world--Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman--from the Bronze Age to the fifth century CE. It also covers the legacy of the classical world and its interpretation and influence in subsequent centuries.

 
Sage eReference
Encyclopedia of African-American Education
This reference is a comprehensive guide to significant issues, policies, historical events, and persons associated with the education of African Americans in the United States.

The ScienceDirect site which hosts over 200 of our journals will not be available Saturday, January 23rd, 8 am until 8 pm due to scheduled maintenance.    Please plan your research accordingly.

The Arts and Sciences VIII collection has been added to the available Jstor resources.  The Arts & Sciences VIII Collection will broaden JSTOR's coverage of core humanities disciplines including history, language & literature, art & art history, and education. Included in this set will be a group of rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals digitized as part of a special project undertaken with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. With a minimum of 140 titles by its completion in 2011, this collection will also include journals in philosophy, classical studies, and music.
 
H.W.Wilson's Art Abstracts has become Art Full Text.  In addition to indexing over 500 periodicals back as far as 1984, it now includes the full text of over 200 journals back to 1997.  The same quality indexing continues and Art Full Text can be searched with Art Index Retrospective to locate articles published during the past 70 years. 

This full text multidisciplinary ebook collection contains over 250 volumes from the Cambridge History of .....  series published since 1960. Recent additions include: the Cambridge History of Science, the Cambridge History of Turkey, and the Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy, the Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, and the Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature.  This collection can be browsed as a whole or you can find individual volumes in the online catalog of the university libraries.
Key Features:

• Unique & dynamic content
• Covers over 15 different academic subjects
• Search and browse content (basic & advanced search and a content specific browse)
• Personalization including, saved & most recent searches, workspaces and bookmarks
• Citation export functionality
• Comprehensive librarian support resources including, COUNTER compliant usage statistics, library branding, MARC records and title lists
• User display control features including, switchable hit term highlighting, pagination of results and the ability to control the number of hits per page
• Extensive bibliographic reference functionality; fully referenced content with all references displayed, OpenURL compliant and linked online through CrossRef

Content has been added to African American Newspapers - 1827-1998
 
The lists of available titles organized by state and by starting date are now available.  The few previously available titles are included within the lists.  These represent about 17% of the material that will eventually be included within the collection when completed in one to two years.
 
When complete, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 will enable users to search more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Created in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, African American Newspapers chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience.

ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection adds 489 titles to the collection.  Records for the titles can be found within the online catalog.  A list of titles  by classification number has been created to enable browsing of the new additions.  Titles include editions of Walt Whitman's works, scholarly works on religion, philosophy, and history.  They may be recent imprints or might be reprints of classic titles from the early 1900's.  Users can browse the titles using table of contents, indexes or may search the full-text of the works.
 

Parliament Rolls of Medieval England is unavailable due to an authentication problem at the vendor's site.  The Library is in communication with the vendor and they are working to reestablish access.   More information will be posted as it becomes available.  There is no estimated time when access with be restored.
Access restored - Tuesday - Nov 25 - 4:30 p.m.  Please report any access issues to Mike Poulin, Digital Resources Librarian.

New titles from ABC-Clio (including Greenwood and Praeger)

African American Religious Cultures 
This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive presentatino on the diversity and richness of religious practices among African Americans, from traditions predating the era of the transatlantic slave trade to contemporary religious movements.
Civil Rights Movement: People and Perspectives
This work documents the importance of the civil rights movement and its lasting impression on American society and culture.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States
Contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries survey contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer American literature and its social contexts.
Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture
This unique encyclopedia chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more. Over 150 entries, written by scholars in the field, highlight topics ranging from animation and comics to Hollywood and pop psychology.
Gangs: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition
Provides an overview of the gang phenomenon both historical and contemporary.
Gender and Violence in the Middle East
Discusses the effect of violence in gender relations in Middle Eastern societies.
Gun Control: A Documentary and Reference Guide
This is the one-stop valuable reference source for students and general readers searching for historical and current information on the ever-ongoing gun debate in the United States.
Hispanic American Religious Cultures
This encyclopedia is the first comprehensive survey of Hispanic American religiosity, contextualizing the roles of Latino and Latina Americans within U.S. religious culture.
Lobbying in America: A Reference Handbook
A comprehensive presentation of the way lobbying and interest-based political activism works in the United States.
National Guard and Reserve: A Reference Handbook
This reference handbook takes a close look at the important roles citizen-soldiers have played in America from colonial times through the war in Iraq.
Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab States Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Arab States
Provides broad coverage of countries that are little known in the United States and even less written about in English.

From Sage

Encyclopedia of Education Law
This encyclopedia  is a compendium of information drawn from the various dimensions of education law that tells its story from a variety of perspectives. The Encyclopedia also includes selections from key legal documents such as the Constitution and federal statutes that serve as the primary sources for research on education law.
Encyclopedia of race and crime
Covers issues in both historical and contemporary context, with information on race and ethnicity and their impact on crime and the administration of justice. These two volumes offer a greater appreciation for the similar historical experiences of varied racial and ethnic groups and illustrate how race and ethnicity has mattered and continues to matter in the administration of American criminal justice.
Encyclopedia of social and cultural foundations of education
A comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural foundations of education. With more than 400 entries, the three volumes of this indispensable resource offer a thorough and interdisciplinary view of the field for all those interested in issues involving schools and society.
Encyclopedia of Time
Surveying the major facts, concepts, theories, and speculations that infuse our present comprehension of time, this encyclopedia explores the contributions of scientists, philosophers, theologians, and creative artists from ancient times to the present.