Looking for twentieth-century articles published before 1984? Try the Wilson Retrospective Indexes: Applied Science & Business Retrospective (1913-83) Art Retrospective (1929-84) Education Index Retrospective (1929-83) Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (1907-84) Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (1908-81) Readers’ Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) They can be searched individually or together: […]
Category: Databases
Add the Oxford English Dictionary to Your Browser
With the Oxford English Dictionary on your browser, checking a definition can be as easy as highlighting and clicking. Installation instructions for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Netscape are available here: http://www.oed.com/services/browser-button.html See the Libraries’ Tools & Widgets page for more resources to streamline your research. […]
The Gerritsen Collection of Aletta Jacobs
As we observe International Women’s Day, we should also acknowledge the contributions of Aletta Jacobs (1854-1929), the first Dutch woman physician, who assembled, with her husband Carl Gerritsen, the first great library collection related to the history of women. Although the scope of the Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History Online extends from the 16th to […]
Personal Writing: Letters and Diaries
Letters and diaries provide a unique perspective on public and private events. These database collections also offer extensive indexing (use the advanced search to see the many options available). The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries, from 1500-1900 North American Women’s Letters and Diaries (1700-1950) North American Immigrant […]
America’s Historical Newspapers
This extraordinary collection provides full-text access to nearly every American newspaper* published from 1690 through the 19th century. Search the entire database or limit a search to a specific region, state, town, or paper. You may also limit by time period, language, and article type (including letters, news/opinion, advertisements, illustrations, cartoons, and announcements), or page […]
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
With Oxford Language Dictionaries Online, standard authoritative Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish dictionaries are only a click away. Features include sound recordings for each word, the ability to search in English or in the original language, a virtual keyboard for entering accents and non-roman characters (though this is not necessary for look-ups) and […]
American History in Video
American History in Video provides a large and and rich collection of online video for the study of American history with more than 4,000 titles encompassing more than 1,000 hours. Many of the videos include fully searchable transcripts. Create, annotate, and share clips and playlists. The database includes commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public […]
Twentieth Century Advice Literature
Twentieth Century Advice Literature : North American Guides on Race, Sex, Gender, and the Family brings together instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature published from 1890 through 1980. The database includes hundreds of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books. […]
Welcome to the Spring Semester at Butler Library!
We are eager to help you take full advantage of the rich collection of resources and tools that the Libraries have to offer. If you are new to Columbia or have not done much library research until now, we urge you to consider coming to one of three workshops on “Getting the Most Out of […]