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This Subject Guide contains links to a few key indexes in American Studies plus significant online resources and print materials housed in the Library’s first floor reference section. Web Resources below contains links to sites with substantial academic content. These may assist you on research papers and other class assignments as well as lead to additional useful sites. Look at the Library's Databases for many other valuable scholarly databases in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For more web resources, try a Google Scholar search with appropriate keywords for your specific needs.
Liaison
Liaison in charge: Paul Showalter
Database/Article Indexes
Print Resources
Background Information
Bibliographies
Web Resources
- How to Read a Nineteenth Century Newspaper
- American Colonists' Library, Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History
Hundreds of full-text documents through 1800.
- American Memory-the National Digital Library at the Library of Congress
A very large collection of primary resources and archival materials relating to American history. Includes documents, photographs, movies and sound recordings
- American Studies Recommendations
Created and maintained by Richard P. Horwitz of the University of Iowa, this metapage offers a well-organized collection of select (unannotated) links for American Studies.
- Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
- Folkstreams
The mission of Folkstreams.net is to build a national preserve of documentary films about American folk or roots culture. Produced by independent filmmakers, these hard-to-find films give voice to the arts and experience of diverse American groups. They are streamed on the website together with background materials that highlight the history and aesthetic importance of the traditions and the films.
- Library of Virginia Digital Library Program
The Program has digitized more than 2.2 million original documents, photographs, and maps, and produced more than 80 fully-searchable databases, indexes, and electronic finding aids.
- Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monographs and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th-century imprints. The collection is comprised of the digitized pages of books and journals. which allows you to view scanned images of the actual pages of the 19th-century texts.
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Known as NUCMC (pronounced "Nuckmuck") this site provides keyword searching of descriptions of manuscript collections in American libraries reported to NUCMC. It is extremely useful for locating the primary collection of the papers of an individual as well as letters to and from the individual in other people's papers.
- Washington State University American Studies Web Resource Project
Includes the following projects:
