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Selected Websites for American Studies Online

The European Journal of American Studies is now freely available online:

I. MEGASITES:
DIGITAL HISTORY OF THE U.S: Features an Online Textbook, Lesson Plans for Teachers, Multi-Media Materials, Court Cases, Ethnic Studies and Ethnic Voices, Modular Lessons, and a US History Reference Room, all from the University of Houston.

AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY ONLINE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES:(Showcases many rich collections for detailed research into American History that are all available free and online.)

  1. Theory and Method in American Cultural Studies
  2. American Studies Associations Worldwide
  3. A Selection of Free Online Courses available through Crossroads
  4. Other Websites with Extensive collections on American Studies
  5. AMDOCS: Crucial Documents for the Study of American History
  6. American History Resources as part of the New York Public Library's Digitization Project:all full text: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=history
    Chronicling America: Archival Research through America’s Newspapers: (From the Library of Congress)
    http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
    Welcome to Chronicling America, enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1897-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

II.  AMERICAN LITERATURE RESEARCH

  1. American Authors on the Web
  2. Columbia University’s Research Guide on American Studies
  3. Best of U.S. History Web sites

III. DIGITAL COLLECTIONS IN AMERICAN STUDIES: 

  1. Web Guides on African American History produced by the Library of CongressDigitized Collections at the Library of Congress for African American History
  2. New York Public Library Digital Collection
  3. A Celebration of Women Writers: African American Writers

IV. DISTANCE OR CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES

  1. USINFO: Electronic Journals on a range of issues (From Dept. of State website)
  2. USINFO Publications: including Outline of American History in the U.S.
  3. Search engines for Quality Information: One of the best isLibrarian Internet Index            Search screen of LII.org
  4. INFOMINE: An excellent academic search engine:
    An attempt to search catalog the Internet by LOC subject headings


Study of the U.S. Branch: Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
The study of the U.S. Branch develops programs such as the Study of the U.S. Institutes and the Current in American Scholarship series, as well as other projects that support the study of the United States abroad. It also promotes Literature covering current trends in the study of the history, society, culture and institutions of the United States.

PUBLICATION:
Publications on current trends in American literary scholarship. The African-American Reader (PDF):
An anthology of essays on African-American history, culture, and society for advanced students, teachers, and scholars

"Currents in American Scholarship" SERIES: Publications
Title: Philosophy in the United States (PDF)
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/01_2005.pdf
Title: The Study of American Politics (PDF)
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/12_2004.pdf
Title: New Directions in American Literary Scholarship 1980-2002
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/
american_literary_scholarship.pdf (PDF)
Title: Twentieth Century United States History
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/history.pdf (PDF)
Title: American Studies Bibliography
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/
AmBibliography.pdf (PDF)
Title: American Religious History
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/
ReligionCAS.pdf(PDF)

The European Journal of American Studies is now freely available online:

Last revised August 16, 2008


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