American Studies Research Guide
Library Databases for American Studies Research
- America History and Life
- Citations and abstracts of materials regarding United States and Canadian history and culture from prehistoric times to the present.
- New York Times Historical, 1851-2001
- Offers full-text and full-image articles for The New York Times dating back to 1851. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue. Use the database to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements
- Academic Search Premier
- Contains scholarly articles, book reviews, and some primary documents.
American Studies Web Links
General
- American Political Development
- American Studies Timeline
- from the University of Texas
- American Studies Web
- American Studies Association Homepage
- A Biography of America
- Boondocks.net
- The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
- HarpWeek
- free and fee resources from Harper's Weekly
- Heritage Preservation Services
- from the National Park Services
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- from PBS
- Making of America
- National Register of Historic Places
- National Security Archive
- from George Washington University
- New Deal Network
- POTUS: Presidents of the United States
- from the Internet Public Library
- Public History Resource Center
- Literary Tradition and Social Change
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- The SPLC was founded a quarter of a century ago for the purpose of winning equal rights for minorities and poor people through legal action. Today the Center continues to pursue action against those who would attack the freedoms of others, while also promoting tolerance, understanding, and justice through education and publicity.
- Theory and Method in American Cultural Studies
- a bibliographic essay
Museums, Libraries, and Collections
- AMDOCS
- Documents for the Study of American History
- American Memory
- The special collection of primary source and archival materials relating to US history and culture.
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School
- Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
- Documents for the Study of American History
- A bibliography of primary documents available on the Internet that are essential for the study of US history.
- Digitized Collections
- from Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections
- Historical Census Browser
- History and Politics Out Loud
- a collection of audio materials
- New York Public Library Digital Library
- Papers of Thomas A. Edison
- from Rutgers
- Presidential Libraries
- from the National Archives
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History
- Western Photography Collection
- from Denver Public Library
American Ethnic Groups
- American Indian Resources
- American Indian Studies
- Asian-Nation:
- the landscape of Asian America
- Densho
- The Japanese-American Legacy Project
- Harlem Renaissance
- History of Jim Crow
- Index to Native American Resources on the Internet
- from the WWW Virtual Library
- Native Culture
- NativeWeb
- Links to information about indigenous peoples throughout the Americas, Africa, Europe and Russia, the Maori of New Zealand, and the Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
Geographic Areas
- 3Cities Project
- New York—Chicago—Los Angeles
- Documenting the American South
- The First American West
- the Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
Time Periods & Specific Events
- American Cultural History: 20th Century
- American Cultural History: 19th Century
- America in the 1930's
- Eighteenth Century Resources
- from Rutgers
- Prosperity and Thrift
- The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy—from the Library of Congress
- The Psychedelic 60's
- The Sixties Project and Viet Nam generation
- The U.S. Civil War Center
- The CWC at Louisiana State University aims to promote the study of the Civil War by anyone, whether interested in genealogy, history, historical preservation, reenactment, collectibles, or more via 2,100 links.
- Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
Women's Studies
- American's Women's History
- a research guide
- Documents from the women's liberation movement
- An online archival collection. Materials in this site are drawn from radical organizations of the women's movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, held in Duke University's special collections.
- National Women's History Project
Please also check out our U.S. History Links from History Subject Page
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