Research Resources: Subject Guides: American Studies
Contents
- Indexes, Abstracts & Full-Text Databases
- Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Handbooks
- Selected Online Resources
Indexes, Abstracts & Full-Text Databases
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks & Bibliographies
Selected Online Resources
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Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project: Lincoln/Net
- With full-text access to over 3500 historical documents from Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-61), including writings and speeches,
this collaborative project based at Northern Illinois University is one of the richest online rouces about our 16th President.
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American Memory
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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.
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American Studies Crossroads Project
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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.
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American Studies Department, F&M College
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Find links to the faculty, graduation requirements, course offerings as well as presentations
relating to Lancaster and Franklin & Marshall.
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Frederick Douglas Papers
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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.
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Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
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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.
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Hypertexts - The University of Virginia
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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.
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Life Photo Archive Hosted by Google
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Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
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Making of America (Cornell)
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A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
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Making of America (University of Michigan)
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A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
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Smithsonian Institution
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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.
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