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African American Studies
http://www.thehistorymakers.com/

Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition, Brown University
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/temperance/

American Memory Project
http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

American Environmental History, University of California-Berkeley
http://nature.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/us-hist.html

American Veterans History Project
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/

Art Museum Image Consortium
http://amico.org/

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Net
http://thomas.loc.gov/

Anti imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935 (Jim Zwick),
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/index.html

Building America
http://www.building-america.org/

Center for Black Music Research Web Site
http://www.cbmr.org/

Chicana Feminism
http://chicanas.com/

Chicago Renaissance
http://www.chipublib.org/digital/chiren

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Civil War Women, from Duke University Scriptorium
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html

Civil Rights Sites
The Legacy of Medgar Evers
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1294360
The Murder of Emmitt Till
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/
The Freedom Summer of 1964
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/oh_freedom/
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/dunbar/
http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/dunbar/dunbar.html
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) History
http://www.core-online.org/history/history%20opening.htm

Daguerreian Society of America
http://www.daguerre.org

Forgotten Ohio
http://www.forgottenoh.com

Historic Pittsburg Photo Collections
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?xc=1&page=index&g=imls

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/

Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com

The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow.html

Virtual Greenbelt (University of Maryland, College Park)
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~vg/

ViVa, A Bibliography of Women's History Journals (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivahome.html

Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/whitman/

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/

New York City
http://www.newyork.com

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th Century America (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
http://docsouth.unc.edu/

Five Points Homepage
http://r2.gsa.gov/fivept/fphome.htm

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
http://www.chicagohistory.org/fire/

Heath Anthology of American Literature Newsletter
http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/newsletter/index.html

Historical and Cultural Atlas Resource (University of Oregon)
http:// darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/

H-Net Book Review Project (Michigan State University)
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/

Hong Kong America Center
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/hkac/

Making of America Project (University of Michigan Digital Library)
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

Museums and historical resources
http://www.museumstuff.com

National Archives Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/index.html

New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/

Presidents of the United States (from Internet Public Library)
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/

Ohio Exploration Society
http://www.ohioexploration.com/

Ohio Memory
http://www.ohiomemory.org/index.html

Salzburg Seminar Center for the Study of American Culture and Language
http://www.salzburgseminar.org/

American Religion Data Archive
http://www.arda.tm/

Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/index.htm

Visual Collections
http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/

"WOMEN WORKING: 1870-1930" Harvard University Library
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww

Women in the Military, Library of Congress
http://library.uncg.edu/depts/archives/veterans/OHT.html

World War II Historic Film Collection, Ball State University
http://libx.bsu.edu/WebApp/Collection.aspx?CISOROOT=%2FWWIIHistFilm

Electronic

American Civil War Letters and Diaries
http://cwld.alexanderstreet.com Written by more than 2,000 authors, the famous as well
as the unknown, the database gives both the Northern and the Southern perspectives, along
with that of foreign observers.

American Civil War Research Database
http://cwdb.alexanderstreet.com
Contains information on 4.3 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with
15,000 photographs. It contains all of the more than 4,600 known regimental rosters,
3,461 regimental chronicles, and 1,010 officer profiles.

Biography Reference Bank (replaces American National Biography)
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=BIORB
Wilson's largest biography database has combined the in-depth, original profiles of
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, plus the thorough periodicals coverage of Biography
Index, full-text articles, page images, and abstracts from the complete range of Wilson
databases (including biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book
reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries). With links to every article
focused on any individual in nearly every WilsonWeb database, Biography Reference Bank
offers a breadth and depth of information you'll find in no other biography database. It
covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images!

Biological Abstracts Backfile (1926-1979)
http://isiknowledge.com/biosis

Congressional research digital collection
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/form/cong/s_pubadvanced.html?srcboxes=ComPrints&DateRestrictionControl=ALL
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/form/cong/s_pubadvanced.html?srcboxes=CRSReports&DateRestrictionControl=ALL
The LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection combines Congressional Research
Service (CRS) reports and congressional committee prints into one easy-to-use optional
module available through LexisNexis Congressional. The LexisNexis Congressional Research
Digital Collection includes abstracting, indexing, bibliographic information, and
searchable PDFs for CRS reports from 1916-present and committee prints from 1830-present

Congressional record online
Coming in September

CQ Almanac
http://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac
The Almanac offers original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that
lawmakers considered during a congressional session. Arranged thematically, CQ Almanac
organizes, distills, and cross-indexes for permanent reference the full year in Congress
and in national politics. Coverage of the people, elections, legislation, and
controversies in the U.S. Congress from 1945-2006. Includes comprehensive roll call
votes for all major legislation.

CQ Press Political Reference Suite
http://library.cqpress.com/prs
New additions include: Guide to Congress, Guide to Political Campaigns in America, Guide
to the Presidency, Guide to U.S. Elections, and Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Database of Recorded American Music
http://www.dramonline.org
1,500 CDs (9,800 compositions) of American music from folk to opera, Native American to
jazz, 19th and 20th century classical, musical theater, new music, electronic from the
New World and Composers Recordings catalogue. Other partners include Albany Records,
Artifact Recordings, Cedille Records, Cold Blue Music, Deep Listening, Frog Peak Music,
innova Recordings, Mutable Music, Pogus Productions, and XI.

Early American Newspapers (Series 6 and 7)
http://infoweb.newsbank.com?db=EANX
New collections of 320 historical American newspapers.

Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
http://linc.alexanderstreet.com
The collection contains material from 49 periodicals, published from 1860 to 1865 in 16
different cities.

Images of the American Civil War
Coming soon 70,000 contemporaneous photographs, along with nearly 30,000 highly
graphical wartime recruiting posters, envelopes, and ephemera.

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Voice of the Shuttle (Alan Liu)
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

The Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/

The American Studies Crossroads Project
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads

American Studies Association homepage
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asainfo.html

ASA Newsletter (current issue and archives)
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/AmericanStudiesAssn/newsletter/index.htm

Archive of Primary Texts, from University of Virginia American Studies program
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html

Index of Resources for Historians
http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/

The George Mason University Center for History and New Media - http://web.gmu.edu/departments/
http://chnm.gmu.edu/index1.html

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

American Studies Curriculum
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/curriculum.html

Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations, 1986-2002
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/dis/dissertations_alphabetic.html

American Quarterly Index, 1975-1995
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/aq/

Technology and Learning
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/innovation.html

European Association for American Studies homepage
http://www.eaas.info/

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Compiled by Dr. Gregory A. Crawford, Head of Public Services
  1. American History & American Studies. Research guide produced by Yale University Library, this is an excellent and comprehensive source of pointers to Web sites in the fields of American History and American Studies.
  2. American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Provides access to an incredible wealth of historical material including the full text of a multitude of documents and to scanned photographs.
  3. American Studies at Penn State Harrisburg. A discussion list hosted by Yahoo.
  4. American Studies Web. Information on literature, history, art and material culture, performing arts, religion, and philosophy, and social science. Created by David Phillips.
  5. American Studies Web sites available through Yahoo.
  6. History Web sites available through Yahoo.
  7. Literature Links for American Studies. Connects to sites recommended by Richard Horwitz (American Studies, University of Iowa).
  8. Society and Culture Sites on the Web as indexed by Yahoo.
  9. Library of Congress World Wide Web Server. Provides access to the Library of Congress catalog, exhibits, THOMAS, and a variety of other resources including the American Memory Project.
  10. African American Odyssey. From the Library of Congress, this site is a virtual exhibition of 200 years of African American struggle and achievement.
  11. Africans in America. Accompanies the PBS series, covering the history of slavery in the U.S. from its beginning to the end of the Civil War.
  12. The American Civil War Homepage. Maintained by George Hoemann (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
  13. American Folklife Center. Established by Congress in 1976, this Library of Congress Web site seeks to "preserve and present American Folklife."
  14. American Folklore Society.
  15. American Studies Hypertexts at the University of Virginia. Includes selections from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.
  16. The African American Mosaic. A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.
  17. Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man. Produced by the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa.
  18. The Crossroads Project. An interesting site that provides access to a variety of information on American Studies.
  19. Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-century America. Produced by the University of North Carolina, this site provides access to printed resources about 19th-century southern literature and history held in the UNC libraries and historical collections.
  20. First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920. Produced by the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
  21. Folk Medicine: A UCLA Folklore Archive Resource.
  22. The Founders' Constitution. The full text of the Kurland and Lerner five-volume work The Founder's Constitution.
  23. The Getting Word Oral History Project. A project of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation to follow the fate of Jefferson's slaves and their descendants.
  24. The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Produced by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and directed by David Brion Davis.
  25. Historical Picture Collections. Collected by Steven Schoenherr (University of San Diego).
  26. The History Channel. A good site for general historical information and programming on the History Channel.
  27. H-NET. Discussion groups, reviews, job listings.
  28. History Matters. The U.S. History Survey on the Web.
  29. International Institute of Social History. An especially useful site for labor history.
  30. Making of America Project. An excellent site for American studies. Includes a variety scanned journals and documents related to American history.
  31. Museum Resource Board.
  32. National Archives and Records Administration. An excellent site for the history of the federal government.
  33. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
  34. Newspapers: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
  35. Now What A Time. From the Library of Congress, this site presents music and other information from the Fort Valley (Georgia) State College Folk festivals from the early 1940s. This is especially useful for the study of African American music of the period.
  36. Organization of American Historians. Contains job listings and history links.
  37. The Papers of George Washington. The goal of this project is to create a complete edition of Washington's correspondence.
  38. Thomas Jefferson Digital Archives of the University of Virginia Library.
  39. Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations.
  40. Pennsylvania German Society.
  41. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
  42. Smithsonian Institution Homepage.
  43. Smithsonian Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies. Includes information on the Festival of American Folklife and Smithsonian exhibitions, educational activities, and documentary films.
  44. U.S. Census Bureau.
  45. The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research.
  46. The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia. This project examines the history of two communities, Franklin County, Pa., and Augusta County, Va., on either side of the Mason-Dixon Line during the Civil War. An excellent example of comparative historical study.
  47. World Wide Web Server for Cultural Studies. Includes sites for African American studies, cultural and ethnic collections, and other useful sites.
  48. WWW-VL History: United States. Maintained at the University of Kansas by Lynn Nelson.

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