Online video makes its debut at Hostos

Check out American History in Video, a digital collection of over 1500 videos accompanied by searchable transcripts covering American history from the 19th century to the 1980's. This is an excellent learning tool for students of history, English language learners, or anyone studying American cultural or political events of the last century.

In this video clip four black students stage a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, NC in 1960.

New Historical Online Collections

Hostos now has access through CUNY to three new electronic resources that provide primary source materials in history.

The Economist Archive (1848-2003) offers a complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper that focuses on politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. It is an excellent primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online provides access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th century in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. It includes documents in various languages including Spanish, French, and Italian.

Making of the Modern World "The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. It includes documents in various languages including Spanish, French, and Italian.

New online reference resources

Check out the two newest online resources at Hostos Library:

Milestone Documents in American History provides the full text and analysis of key primary texts in American History. These documents offer historical context (1807 Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves ) as well as context for more recent events (U.S. Supreme Court's 2000 decsion Bush v. Gore).

Magill's Medical Guide online, a medical reference resource that Library Journal describes"authoritative and up-to-date yet highly accessible and admirably succinct. All the articles are signed, and to the left of the article text are links to the proper citation for the articles."