Information Packages

American Studies Resources

DOS Web Sites

Currents in American Scholarship
The "Currents in American Scholarship" series offers Americanists abroad information on theory and practice in disciplines relevant to the study of the society, culture and institutions of the United States. Prominent scholars from across the U.S. assisted in authoring these bibliographies. Printed copies are available from U.S. Embassy Public Affairs offices and Fulbright Commissions, or may be downloaded from this site for free.

IIP Products

Information USA
Authoritative resource for foreign audiences seeking information
about American society, political processes, official U.S. policies and
culture. 

The American Family
An electronic journal of the U.S. Department of State,
Volume 6, Number 1, January 2001

American Studies at Home and Abroad
Electronic Journals of the U.S. Information Agency, Vol. 1, No. 15, October 1996 

American Teenagers
An Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State, July 2004

Americans at the Table : Reflections on Food and Culture
An Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State, July 2004

The Arts in America: New Directions
An electronic journal of the U.S. Department of State,
Volume 8, Number 1, April 2003

CONTEMPORARY U.S. LITERATURE: MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
Electronic Journal of the State Department, Volume 5, Number 1, February 2000

Snapshot USA
An Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State, June 2006

Sports in America
An electronic journal of the U.S. Department of State, Volume 8, Number 2, December 2003

The United States in 2005: Who We Are Today
An Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State, December 2004

More E-Journals

Other IIP Publications

Mega Sites

AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
Primary sources of American history, 1200 to the present, including images, audio and text files.

Best of U.S. History Web Sites

Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies
The Crossroads Project is sponsored by the American Studies Association and is funded by the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), the Annenberg/CPB Project and the American Studies Program at Georgetown University which helps provide a rich resource in American Studies which includes a listing of:

• American Studies Programs
• American Studies Curricula
• Subject Maps to Fields of American Studies
• Key American Studies Internet Sites
• International American Studies
• New Media and Technologies in American Studies

Guide to American Studies Resources

Making of America
Making of America (MOA) is 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 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.

Internet Resources for English and American Literature
University of Delaware Library

Key Sites on American Literature
American Literature - General
Colonial and 19th Century American Literature and Poetry
Modern and Contemporary American Literature and Poetry

Intute: Arts & Humanities: American Studies
Search or browse the database of American Studies resources which have been selected, evaluated and described by subject specialists.

American Authors on the Web

Study of the U.S.
The Study of the U.S. Branch seeks to promote a better understanding of the people, institutions, and culture of the United States among foreign students, teachers and scholars whose professional focus is American society and culture, past and present.

Theory and Method in American/Cultural Studies:A Biobliographic Essay
This bibliography offers an historical survey of and an introduction to work on theory and method in American cultural studies.

Voice of the Shuttle
models the way the humanities are organized for research and teaching as well as the way they are adapting to social, cultural, and technological changes.

American Studies Recommendations 
by Richard P. Horwitz, University of Iowa
Links to resources selected for students and teachers of American Studies.

Subject Research Guides from Rutgers University Libraries

Columbia University's Research Guide on American Studies

Digital Collections of the New York Public Library

Distance or Continuing Education (MIT's OpenCourseWare)

Other Resources for American Studies 

American Studies Associations Worldwide

The University of Delaware Site for English and American Literature (Comprehensive)

Curriculum Examples from the World Lecture Hall

European Journal of American Studies

One AMST course on W.E.B DuBois with links to Web Sites, Criticisms, Lectures, Online Conferences, etc.
Note that this course entirely available through the Web: an increasing occurrence in the U.S.

American Memory / Library of Congress Project

University of Virginia: Other Sources of Electronic Texts

University of Northern Carolina: Documenting the South
This project, funded by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) from December 31, 1998 to March 31, 2001, documents Southern life during the Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to create a viable nation state as evidenced in both private and public life. North Carolina will receive special attention, because of the Library’s strong holdings of materials reflecting life in the state during this time. "Homefront" includes over four hundred digitized and encoded contemporary printed works and manuscripts, accompanied by ca. 1,000 images of currency, manuscript letters, maps, broadsides, title pages, illustrations, and photographs. 

WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies Web Sites

University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office

American Women's History: A Research Guide

Women's Studies: A New York Public Library Research Guide

An Encyclopedia Online

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

Some Powerful Search Engines

• Librarians's Internet Index
• Infomine
• Google
• AltaVista
• Infoseek
• HotBot
• Yahoo

Links for Online Information on Diversity

Black History Month ( http://amlife.america.gov/amlife/diversity/black-history-month.html ) This America.gov Web page highlights the celebration of Black History Month every February and the history and contributions of African Americans in the United States.

Women's History Month ( http://amlife.america.gov/amlife/diversity/diversity--offering-a-place-for-everyone.html ) Every March, Women's History Month is celebrated in the United States. This America.gov Web page looks at some of the accomplishments and events that moved women's rights forward.

2008 Statistical Abstract of the United States ( http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/ ) U.S. Census Bureau

Diversity Bibliography ( http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=1187&sid=5 ) Offered by the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit organization "dedicated to teaching and inspiring journalists and media leaders," this bibliography -- updated in early 2005 -- links to online resources, including organizations and reports and a list of books of interest in the field of diversity and the media.

DiversityWeb ( http://www.diversityweb.org/ ) A project of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, DiversityWeb is a comprehensive compendium of campus practices and resources about diversity in higher education.

Ethnic and Multicultural History ( http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/start/inres/ushist/ethnic.html ) This site, from The Learning Page, Library of Congress, offers annotated links to approximately 30 resources showcasing the history of ethnic diversity in the United States.

Immigration ( http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/immig.html ) From the American Memory, Library of Congress, this feature presentation links educators to primary sources from the Library of Congress' online collections. It provides an introduction to the study of immigration to the United States, focusing on the immigrant groups that arrived in greatest numbers during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Issue Guide on Immigration ( http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/frontdoor.cfm?issue_type=immigration ) Public Agenda Online, a "nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization" founded in 1975, offers this topical "issue guide" with facts, findings, news articles and various perspectives and public opinion on immigration.

The Living Cities Census Series ( http://www.brookings.edu/projects/living-cities.aspx ) This series is a major effort by the Brookings Institution's Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy to illustrate how urban and suburban America has changed in the last two decades. Brookings is conducting comparative analyses of the major social, economic and demographic trends for the top 100 U.S. metropolitan areas. Among its publications are The Rise of New Immigrant Gateways ( http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2004/02demographics_singer.aspx ), Diversity Spreads Out: Metropolitan Shifts in Hispanic, Asian, and Black Populations Since 2000 ( http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2006/03demographics_frey.aspx ) and From 'There' to 'Here': Refugee Resettlement in Metropolitan America ( http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2006/09demographics_singer.aspx ).

Metropolitan Racial and Ethnic Change -- Census 2000 ( http://www.albany.edu/mumford/census/index.html ) This Web site, a public service of the Lewis Mumford Center, the State University of New York at Albany and the Ford Foundation, offers information and analyses of how the racial and ethnic composition of metropolitan areas has shifted in the last 10 years and how increasing diversity is experienced at the level of local neighborhoods.

Race and Ethnicity Online ( http://www.apsanet.org/~rep/ ) Created by the American Political Science Association's Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, this site focuses on research related to American Indians, African Americans, Latino Americans and Asian Pacific Americans.

For your more specific research requests, please contact the IRC

Last updated on April 25, 2008.