Notable Web Resources on American Studies
Links
to American Studies Resources on the Web
An excellent collection of web resources selected and maintained by
the American Studies Department, CSUF.
Repositories of Primary
Sources
A directory of primary sources by region and institution.
AMDOCS--Documents
for the Study of American History
A directory of primary documents on the web from 1492 to current via
the University of Kansas.
Library
Research Using Primary Sources
A research guide on finding primary sources created and maintained
by librarians
at the University of California, Berkeley.
Selected Historical and Primary Sources
American History
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/History Text Archive
http://historicaltextarchive.com/
Making of America Michigan University
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
Making of American Cornell University
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/
Margaret Sanger papers project
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/
Nineteenth Century American Literary, Cultural,
and Historical Studies Online Resources: http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/19th/19th.html
New Deal Network: http://newdeal.feri.org/
By the People, for the People: Posters from the
WPA, 1936-1943 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html
The United States in the Progressive Era: Guide
to Resources http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rbannis1/Progs/index.html
The Literature and Culture of the American
1950s
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html
The Sixties Project
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/
The Psychdelic 60’s: Literary Tradition and
Social Change
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/
Re: Vietnam: http://www.pbs.org/pov/stories/
Religious Movements
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/welcome/welcome.htm
Project
Whistlestop
See Truman Presidential Museum & Library at:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/
California
19th Century California Sheet Music
http://sims.berkeley.edu/~mkduggan/neh.html
Online Archive of California (http://sunsite2.berkeley.edu/oac/).
Finding aids to major archival collections related to California.
Includes papers of major companies and organizations, e.g.,
Sierra Club, etc. (From http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/cult.html#mageth)
“California as I Saw It”
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=AmMem-calbk
California Historical Agencies
http://coph.fullerton.edu/OChistoricalagencie.html
California Historical Society
http://www.calhist.org/Support_Info/CHAs.htmld/
The California Heritage Collection
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/
American
Women
Rosie Pictures: Selected Images Relating to American
Women Workers During the Second World War II:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/126_rosi.html
Women
and Social Movements in the United States, 1820-1940
http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/
American Literature
A Literary History of the American West
http://www2.tcu.edu/depts/prs/amwest/
Digital Schomburg African American Women
Writers of the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html
Jack London Collection
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/
Literature at SunSITE
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/othertext.html
Mark Twain in His Times
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
Mark Twain in the Atlantic Monthly
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/twain.htm
Mark Twain on the Philippines
http://www.boondocksnet.com/twain/index.html
Mark Twain Papers & Project: http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/MTP/
(A Bibliographic Tool)
Mark Twain with Jim Zwick
http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/ (a site with 700+ links)
Women and Literature
http://www.ibiblio.org/cheryb/women/wlit.html
(no longer updated)
American Music
Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection
http://library.msstate.edu/ragtime/
Built Environment/Architecture/Urban
Planning
The Urban Landscape Digital Image Access Project
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/diap/ (contributors of 14
collections in the country http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/diap/diap_info.html)
Ethnic
America: African Americans
WPA’s American Slave Narratives
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html
American Life Histories Manuscripts from the
Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
Includes slave additional slave narratives not included in the
Virginia Text Project
African American Odyssey
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from
the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
The African-American Experience in Ohio:
Selections from the Ohio Historical Society
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/aaeohome.html
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920:
Selected from the Collections of Brown University
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmhome.html
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American
Pamphlet Collection 1824-1909
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/
The Freedman and Southern Society Project
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/home.html
Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
Humanities
Humanities Text Initiative
http://www.hti.umich.edu
(American Verse Project; The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln;
Garden and Forest; links to Making of America)
Images/Photographs
AdAccess
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
Emergence of Advertising
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
American Political Prints 1776-1886
http://loc.harpweek.com/
Pictorial Highlights from UC Berkeley Archival Collections
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/highlights.html
Digital Video/Films
http://www.vide.net/conferences/
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/trfhtml/trfhome.html
Oral History
Getting the Word Oral History Project
http://www.monticello.org/gettingword/
In the First Person
[CSUF only]
Oral History Online
http://alexanderstreet6.com/orhi/
Regional Oral History Online
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/resources/ohlinks.html
Regional/State/Local Resources
Cleveland Digital Library
http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/cdl/
A Selective Listings of Digital
Collections
American Memory at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/
Bartleby Library
http://www.bartleby.com/
Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and
Special Collections Library
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/
(advertising, image, photograph, African American women, Civil War
Women, Documents from the Women’s Liberation Movement 1969-1974,
the Urban landscape, online exhibits)
Electronic Text Center at the University of
Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
The New
York Public Library Digital Collections
http://digital.nypl.org/
Project
Guttenberg
http://promo.net/pg/
Special
Collections at the Library of Congress: A Selective Guide
http://www.loc.gov/rr/research-centers.html
(bibliographic guide as an example to increase understanding of the
resources available)
SunSITE
Digital Collections
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/
University
of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative
http://www.hti.umich.edu/
Web
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Evaluating
Web Resources
Provides links to more resources on how to evaluate web
resources.