American StudiesLinks

This page contains links relating to American Studies. I have organized them by category for easier orientation. I have also created links pages for Native American/First Nations Studies and African American Studies. Click on the links to go those pages.

1. General resources
2. Reference resources
3. Homepages for specific organizations and individuals
4. Academic writing resources
5. American literature online
6. History
7. Museums
8. Universities and colleges
9. Journals, media and the press

1. General resources
American Studies @ The University of Virginia
The History Net
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2. Reference resources
Encyclopedia Britannica
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3. Homepages for specific organizations and individuals
Dickinson Electronic Archives. Writings by and about the American poet Emily Dickinson. Presented by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia.
The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive. Presented by IATH at the University of Virginia.
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4. Academic writing resources
Writer's Handbook. The Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The National Writing Centers Association Homepage. A comprehensive collection of resources and links for students.
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5. American literature online
American Literature - American Literary Classics
Early American Literature 1600-1900. This site contains a number of links to other American literature sites and is is divided into a number of subsections, including:
Early American and Colonial Literature to 1700
The Mayflower Compact
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6. History
Civil War links. This is my (brief) list of Civil War links.
Reconstruction Time Line
Time line of Reconstruction
American History Files: Colonial America (1585-1763)
Colonial Chesapeake Society: Excerpt from Adapting to a New World: A Comparative Study of Local Society in England and Maryland by James Horn
Jamestown Rediscovery
US Historical Documents
From Revolution to Reconstruction
"Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive". Presented by IATH at the University of Virginia.
The Sixties Project. Presented by IATH University of Virginia.
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7. Museums and Libraries
The Library of Congress
The Smithsonian Institution Home Page
National Museum of American Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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8. Universities and Colleges
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9. Journals, media and the press
The New York Times. This site requires free registration
The Los Angeles Times. This site requres free registration.

Journal of Historical Geography. This is accessible from MU computers only!
JSTOR, the Scholarly Journal Archive. This database includes full texts and abstracts from many relevant scholarly publications in American studies including American Quarterly, The American Historical Review, and The William and Mary Quarterly, to name but a few. The journals cover many areas of the social sciences and humanities, including anthropology, literature, history, sociology and African American studies. It is accessble from MU computers only. Back to index