Resources
for the American Studies student
American Studies Indexes
American History
Authors
Libraries and Museums
Popular Culture
Public Figures
General Reference Materials
American Studies electronic research aids, relevant indexes, online libraries, primary texts and special collections
American History
- American History
- American
Presidents - a PBS site that provides information about T. Roosevelt,
F. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Reagan
- Boston Black History
- Hispanics/Latinos in American
History
- Women in American History - a
beautiful Encyclopedia Britannica site that includes a weekly quiz,
recommended reading and a fabulous media gallery
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World History - a growing web project which covers 3,000 years
of world history
- Turn of the Century American
History - includes a timeline from 1874 to 1920 and biographies
of important figures at the turn of the century
- United
States Gay and Lesbian History
- American Literature: the Voice
of the Shuttle
- American Drama
- this site is keyed to the journal American Drama
- Celebration of
Women Writers - explores women writers from 3000 B.C. to the 20th
Century, from Albania to Zimbabwe
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Southern Literature - documents the riches and diversity of the
Southern experience in 100 of its most important literary works. This
site includes book covers, title pages and full text of many works
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African-American Women Archival Collections
- Filipino-American
Literature
- Art
and Photography: the Developing West, 1849 to the Present - San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art electronic gallery of the American
Frontier
- Civil War Photographs
- updated by the Library of Congress, this site contains 1,118 Civil
War photographs
- Detroit Publishing
- updated by the Library of Congress, this site covers the years 1880-1920
and includes over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well
as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the Eastern United
States
- Georgia O'Keeffe
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American Architecture of the Twentieth Century (1930-1939)
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Authors
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Libraries and Museums
- African-American
Library of Congress
- New York Public Library -
a very professional website that offers information about upcoming
events and exhibitions as well as online resources
- Library of Congress - covers
information on all aspects of American History and Literature
- Smithsonian
Institution
- Getty Museum - online
exhibits ranging from Greek and Roman times to modern photography
- National Museum of American
Art - part of the Smithsonian site
- American Memory
- historical collections from the National Digital Library with many
great exhibits focusing on American popular culture
- Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco - includes an ART Imagebase, a growing searchable
catalogue (approx. 70,000 images at present) of paintings, drawings,
etchings, porcelain, sculpture, silver, glass, furniture, textiles
and more
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Popular Culture
- Early Motion
Pictures (1897-1916) - maintained by the Library of Congress.
Includes "Inside an American Factory, 1904" and "The Life of A City:
Early Films of New York, 1898-1906"
- The Film
100 - the one hundred most influential people in the history of
the movies. Select any person for a description of their accomplishments
and a timeline
- The Silent
Movie Page - the first silent movies page on the web. Information
on the films, the stars, the directors and content of silent movies
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The Jazz Age Page - an entertaining look at the time period, this
page includes sound clips, biographies and photos. Not just about
the music; this page covers the events of the time as well
- Jazz
and American Culture - an interdisciplinary journal published
by the American Studies department at the University of Texas
- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio
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Public Figures
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General Reference Materials
-
Wellesley College Electronic Reference Collection - a comprehensive
and reliable source for information ranging from biograhies and dictionaries
to quotations, weights and measurements
- The
Best Information on the Net (BIOTN) - important sites by Major
field of study
- The WWW Virtual Library
- a wide-ranging reference source that includes listings in the humanities
(e. g., Art, Dance, History, Museums, Philosophy, etc.)
- My Virtual Reference Desk
- news, information, links to many reference works and sources
- Research-It:
your one-stop reference desk - dictionaries, translators of words
in foreign languages, and other reference and language tools
- Search
Tools and Guides for the WWW: recommended for searching the Internet
- links to Yahoo and other search engines
- eBlast: Encyclopaedia Britannica's
Internet Guide. The editors of this renowned reference work select,
review, and rate the best sites in a host of fields, topics, and disciplines
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The Modern English Collection - this heterogeneous collection
contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers,
manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for
browsing by author's last name or by category of interest
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Documents for the Study of American History: documents that are
organized by century (from 15th to 20th), with more specific organization
by eras in 20th century
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Maintained by William Cain
Date Created: April 21, 2000
Last Modified: December 23, 2003
Page Expires: September 1, 2004
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