Resources by Subject - American Studies

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Access to information sources relating to American Studies is available through the links below. They are only a selection of some of the available resources. You can use internet search engines such as AltaVista, Mamma or InFIND, or information gateways such as the ones below to discover more.

Information Gateways American Literature Other resource lists

Internet Tutorials American Politics Electronic Journals

General Sites Civil Rights Movement Electronic Texts

American History Native American Links Electronic Services

INFORMATION GATEWAYS

Information gateways work in a similar way to library catalogues, in that they allow you to search for information on a specific topic and then direct you to relevant resources on the World Wide Web. They help you to find quality information quickly on the subject you are looking for.

ADAM Information Gateway - Art, Design, Architecture and Media resources gateway.

The BUBL Subject Tree is a good starting point for all subject areas. More specifically, there are links for Art, Film Studies, Geography, History, Literature, Music, Political History and Political Science.
HUMBUL (HUManities BULletin board) has a large collection of high quality links to scholarly resources on the web.
PINAKES: a subject launchpad links to many other information gateways.
SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway)

INTERNET TUTORIALS FOR ENGLISH AND HISTORY

Internet for English and Internet for Historians, sections of the RDN Virtual Training Site, are free "teach yourself" tutorials on Internet information skills for students, lecturers and researchers in the fields of English Literature and History. Guided tours provide links to some of the key Internet sites. There is also advice on tools and techniques for Internet searching, and on how to evaluate online resources.

GENERAL SITES

Academic Info American Studies, a directory compiled by Mike Madin.
American Journalism Review News Link allows you access to the web sites for all national and regional newspapers in the United States and the rest of the world.
American Memory American Memory is the Library of Congress’s contribution to the US National Digital Library. It consists of primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history.
American Studies Association Home Page
American Studies Crossroads Project
The British Association of American Studies Website, a brief introduction to the association, the benefits of membership and a list of personnel. The conference CFP has also been posted along with a tentative list of sites of interest to American historians.
The English Server at Carnegie Mellon University. The Server publishes texts in the arts and humanities, broadly defined. Collections include art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music and two journals (Bad Subjects and Cultronix).

You will also find more useful links on the Resources by Subject pages for other humanities subjects: Art & Design, English Literature, History, Music, Radio, Film & Television and Religious Studies.

AMERICAN HISTORY

49th Parallel: an Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies is published electronically on the World Wide Web.
Academic Info United States History Gateway
American and British History Resources on the Internet
The American Civil War Homepage

American Diplomacy: Commentary, Analysis and Research on American Foreign Policy and Its Practice is another electronic journal.

For sites concerned with the role of the United States in Vietnam, try the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam & DesertStorm link on Oz's Table of Contents.

The Eighteenth-Century Resources - History page, maintained by Jack Lynch, includes a section on American history.

For links to U.S. foreign policy websites, try the Foreign Governments, International Relations and Diplomacy link in the U.S. Government section of Oz's Table of Contents.

Links to many General U.S. History sites are available through Oz's Table of Contents. Headings include: From Colonies to Revolution, 19th Century America, 20th Century America, U.S. Government, and Presidents.

The History Net contains a wealth of information on American and world history. The site also provides links to 740 full-text articles on topics such as the American Civil War, Vietnam, World War II and women's history.

The Internet Public Library: United States (History) Resources

WWW Virtual Library: History: United States is a well-organised menu page where you can browse by chronological period or by historical topic. There are links to many reference sources and the site also has a search facility.

AMERICAN LITERATURE

Academic Info American Literature
American Studies Crossroads Project American Studies Web site at Georgetown University which includes Electronic Texts and Interactive Platforms in American Literature.
The American Verse Project, part of the University of Michigan Humanities Text
Initiative, offers an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to
1920.
The Internet Public Library: Native American Authors provides information on Native American authors, including bibliographies of their published works, biographical information and links to onlines resources such as interviews, online texts and tribal websites. You can browse alphabetically by author, title of book or tribe.
Try Jack Lynch's comprehensive collection of American Literary Resources.
Leaves of Grass
Full-text of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, 1900.
Voice of the Shuttle - Web Page for Humanities Research; includes resources relating to Colonial, 19th Century, modern and contemporary American literature.

AMERICAN POLITICS

Federal Government Sites Links to U.S. departments, federal agencies and commissions, judicial and legislative branches and inter-agency organisations.

JFK Assassination Web Page
US Government and Politics Resources on the Internet is an excellent set of links maintained
by the Department of Politics at the University of Keele.
U.S. House Of Representatives Home Page Includes a schedule of bills, resolutions and other legislative issues that the House intends to consider, as well as Committee hearing schedules and information about the legislative process.
Welcome to the White House Interactive citizen’s handbook plus information on the US president, past presidents and the history of the White House.

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Academic Info African American History: Civil Rights Movement
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project at Stanford University includes a biography of King, a chronology of his life, as well as primary and secondary source material.

NATIVE AMERICAN LINKS

The Internet Public Library: Native American Authors
Native American Resources covers culture, history, art; books and articles with full-text online.
Native American Tribes offers links to Native American organisations and mailing lists.
Native Americans Website includes maps, narratives, traditional stories, myths, legends, basketry techniques, recipes and herbal remedies.

OTHER USEFUL LISTS OF WWW RESOURCES

The Internet Public Library Reference Center

Keele University American Studies Department

SoUSA - University of Wolverhampton Learning Resources

University of Central Lancashire Library

University of Reading American Studies Resources

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS All the e-journals listed below are published on the World Wide Web. This means that the full-text of all the articles from each issue can be accessed electronically - no passwords are required.

20th Century Women Bright Lights Film Journal Images

49th Parallel Connotations The North Star

American Diplomacy The Early America Review The War Times Journal

American Drama The History net

FindArticles.com is a database containing "hundreds of thousands of articles from more than 300 magazines and journals, dating back to 1998". You can search for full-text articles within a specific magazine or within all the magazines in a specific subject category. Alternatively, you can search the entire database.

ELECTRONIC TEXTS

Archives of the West

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School provides access to primary source materials in the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government.

Bibliomania contains hundreds of searchable full-text works of classic and popular fiction, poetry, drama, short stories, dictionaries, research and religious texts. Reference works include Webster's Dictionary, Dictionary of Quotations and Simonds' History of American Literature.
A Chronology of US Historical Documents, courtesy of the University of Oklahoma Law Center.
The Constitution of the United States of America
Documenting the American South
Making of America
The On-Line Books Page. A comprehensive listing of links to over 10,000 full-text books now available on the World Wide Web, including many texts on literature. You can either use the search facility or browse by author, title or subject.

Radicalism Collection is a special collection of e-texts maintained by Michigan State University Libraries. Subjects include: birth control, Black Panthers, Klu Klux Klan, Rosenberg Case, Scottsboro Boys and Wounded Knee.

ELECTRONIC SERVICES

American Film Institute Catalog (Chadwyck Healey service) contains comprehensive information, including plot summaries and cast lists, on every feature length film produced or financed by American production companies between 1893 and 1970 (excluding 1951 to 1960). Search terms include title, cast and crew, character name, genre and year. N.B. The service is only available from the College network. [No password required]

Art Abstracts is a service on the internet which allows you to search for periodical article references by subject and then email the resulting references to yourself. Many of the references are accompanied by an abstract which tells you more about the article in question. For a list of the 280 Art periodicals indexed on this service, click here. N.B. To access this EDINA service, you will need to obtain a personal ATHENS account.

Literature Online is a fully searchable library of over 250,000 works of English and American literature. It includes drama, poetry, fiction and prose in full-text. You can search within one of the individual literature collections - which include American Poetry (1600-1900) and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, or you can do a general search across the entire database. N.B. The service is only available from the College network. [No password required]
PCI (Periodicals Contents Index) Full Text is another online periodicals search service on the Web. Coverage on PCI extends from the first year of publication up to and including 1990. You can even find references to articles published in journals as far back as the nineteenth century. For a list of American Studies periodicals indexed on PCI Full Text, click here. N.B. The service is only available from the College network. [No password required]
Web of Science (ISI service) is a service on the World Wide Web which allows you to search by subject for periodical article references and then email the resulting references to yourself. Using the Arts & Humanities Citation Index or the Social Science Citation Index within WoS, you can search for references to articles on American Studies. Coverage is from 1981 to the present. For a list of American Studies periodicals indexed on WoS, click here. N.B. To access this ISI service, you will need to obtain a personal ATHENS account.

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Updated: 27 October 2000