Franklin &  Marshall College Library

eResources for American Studies

Indexes, Abstracts & Full-Text Databases

Selected Online Resources

American Memory
The American Memory Historical Collections, a major component of the Library's National Digital Library Program, are multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress' Americana collections.

American Studies Crossroads Project
Crossroads is an international networking and curriculum innovation project of the American Studies Association with sponsorship from Georgetown University containing pedagogical, scholarly, and institutional information for the international American Studies Community.

American Studies Department, F&M College
Find links to the faculty, graduation requirements, course offerings as well as presentations relating to Lancaster and Franklin & Marshall.

Frederick Douglas Papers
The papers of Frederick Douglas, housed at the Library of Congress, are available on-line via keyword search and subject browsing. There is an extensive collection of speeches, articles and more than 200 images.

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Harvard University Libraries online access to U.S. immigration resources, which include approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets, 9,000 photographs, and over 10,000 pages from manuscripts and archival collections. "Highly recommended" by Choice Reviews for Academic LIbraries.

Hypertexts - The University of Virginia
The hypertexts in this collection have been produced by students enrolled in The American Studies Program at the University of Virginia. It is useful by providing access to classic, lost and linked texts.

Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian is the largest museum complex in the world. Over the past few years the Smithsonian has been digitizing its catalogues and has been appending images to the records of the Museum collections as well as the holdings of the various Archives and Libraries.

Full-Text Journals

The Library may not subscribe to all journal volumes found at these links. Please check Journals @ F&M for complete holdings information.

Have you tried...


Last updated: 5/12/08 ks