American Studies: Links & General Resources

American Studies > Links

Many American Studies Organizations list specific Internet resources.

100 Questions and Answers about Arab Americans - (dead link)
A Journalist's Guide

American Folklore
"This folklore site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States...This site was created as part of a graduate study at Rutgers the State University of New Jersey in October 1997. It contains one or more folktales from each state. The target audiences are storytellers, teachers, folklore fans and students needing state folklore for school projects. The site is updated regularly. The folktales were rewritten by S. E. Schlosser."

American Studies
Some resources are restricted to UI only
The University of Iowa Libraries: Gateway to Online Resources

American Studies
Includes ASSIST (American StudieS Information Super Turnpike), a well organized collection on online links and resources.
American Studies Department, Keele University

American Studies
Sections include: Search Engines ; Information Gateways ; Internet Tutorials ; General Sites ; American Education ; American Geography ; American History ; American Literature ; American Politics ; Civil Rights Movement ; Native American Links ; Electronic Journals ; Electronic Texts ; Online Databases.
Canterbury Christ Church University College (UK) Library Services - Resources by Subject

American Studies - Washington State University
Web Projects:

• 19th Century United States Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies Online
  "This site is designed to bring together at one site the best materials available on the Web for studying and teaching about 19th century American literature, history and culture. Our aim is to make the site useful to teachers, scholars and students at all levels of education."
  
• American Popular Culture: On-Line Resources
  "The site focuses on the critical analysis of American popular culture, particularly on issues of race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, cultural imperialism and censorship, as shaped by and reflected in various mass media...This site also includes sections that introduce and give resources for four main types or elements of popular culture analysis: production analysis, textual analysis, audience analysis, and historical analysis (of the first three dimensions as they change over time)."
  By Prof. T.V. Reed, Washington State University
  
• Cultural Environmental Studies
  "This site seeks to explore the relatively unmapped terrain where cultural studies (broadly conceived) and environmental studies (broadly conceived) meet, overlap, and enter into dialogue."
  
• Multicultural American West
  "Our focus at present is in offering the best set of links to online documents, course syllabi, journals, resource sites, popular culture sites, and other relevant materials regarding the American West as a region. In the near future teaching modules on the region will be added."
  
• Social Movements and Culture
  "This site provides a space for the study of social movements in the U.S., including those movements as linked to transnational and global movements. Our emphasis is on recent and contemporary movements, but we also aim to provide materials on earlier movements. We seek to bring together the best insights of sociology, political science, anthropology, history, cultural studies, American studies, ethnic studies, women's studies, and other fields of social movement analysis, as well as the insights of movement activists inside and outside of academia."
  
• Theory & Method in American Cultural Studies
  "This Web site is designed to be a central resource for learning about questions of theory and method in American Studies, cultural studies and related forms of interdisciplinary scholarship. At present the site consists of a theory bibliography, syllabi from courses on theory and method, and links to other useful sites. We hope later to add teaching modules and a discussion list."

American Studies Links Recommended by Richard P. Horwitz
A well designed collection of worthwhile websites. Sections include: American Studies ; History ; Literature ; Popular Culture ; Electronic Texts ; Tools ; Jobs ; Demographics ; Material Culture ; Folklore ; Geography ; Politics ; Visual Arts ; Religion.
By Prof. Horwitz, University of Iowa

American Studies on the Internet
Columbia University Libraries Subject Directory
By Michael Stoller, History Bibliographer

American Studies Association - (dead link)

American Studies Crossroads Project
American Studies Association & Georgetown University

• New American Studies Web - (dead link) ""The new version is a topical database of over 2,000 web-based resources in American Studies ... Read a SiteScene Review - (dead link) of many of the resources in the database. SiteScene features reviews of new web-based resources in American Studies."

Arnet : On-Line Resources for American Studies
Includes: On-Line Journal ; Hot Links ; Directory ; Forum ; Book Reviews ; Conferences
American Studies Resources Centre, Liverpool John Moores University

British Association for American Studies - Links
Includes General Links and British Sites of Interest

CBS News - Disaster Links
"...contains information about a variety of disaster-related websites. It is intended for quick reference and is not always comprehensive."
Sections include: Biological & Chemical Weapons or Contamination ; Disasters-Comprehensive ; Airplane Disasters ; Earthquakes ; Flooding ; Hurricanes ; Tornadoes ; International Disasters ; Volcanoes ; Wild Fires ; Winter Storms.

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
This site from the Gale Group includes: Quiz ; Biographies ; Music ; Timeline ; Activities ; Links.

The Challenger Accident
"A decade after this national tragedy, the World Wide Web hosts a variety of resources reviewed at this Challenger Accident homepage, created by the Space Policy Project of the Federation of American Scientists."

Disaster Central
"Providing timely, quality resources in the fields of crisis, emergency, and risk management, and also homeland security"
Sections include: News & Views ; Emergency Management ; Terrorism ; Homeland Security ; State & Government ; Critical Infrastructure ; Information Technology ; Health & Medical ; Policy Analysis ; Risk Management ; Links ; Tools ; Special Features.
By Claire B. Rubin

"Diversity Web sources in higher education: Looking at our rich heritage"
"This article identifies Web sources with emphasis on sites that include institutional vision on diversity issues, recruitment of minority faculty, library organizations working to achieve diversity, and related issues. These web sources are starting points for exploring diversity in higher education and looking at the rich cultural heritage of various groups. Its intended audience is faculty, librarians, students, and anyone interested in these issues. The criteria for Web inclusion are that sources be substantive and organized."
By Mae N. Schreiber, et al.
Published in College & Research Libraries News, Sept. 2000

Drug Wars
A special Frontline series in collaboration with NPR [National Public Radio]
"From both sides of the battlefield, a 30-year history of America's war on drugs-a war with no rules, no boundaries, no end."
A fascinating, frank discussion of the $400 billion business.
PBS Frontline

electionline.org
Your First Stop for Election Reform Information
"The Project is not dedicated to advocacy, nor are we committed to any specific solution to the problem of election reform. Rather, the goal will be to offer everyone with an interest in the issues -- advocates, policymakers, officials, journalists, scholars, and concerned citizens -- a forum for learning about, discussing, and evaluating the whole array of information and ideas related to the issue of election reform."
By Election Reform Information Project, University of Richmond

epguides.com
"This site contains Episode Lists for over 1635 TV shows. Each list contains titles and airdates. For over 375 shows there is a more detailed episode guide containing guest stars and plot summaries."

Face to Face
Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy
"...explores what it means to be an American with the face of the enemy [Japanese American in 1941 and Arab American in 2001]. These are real stories of fear, anger, hatred, loyalty and trust."
Sections include: Stories [12.7.41 & 9.11.01 ; Aftermath ; Fear ; FBI Investigation ; Internment ; Anger ; Loss ; Identity ; Being American ; Never Again] ; Responses ; Glossary ; Activities.
- Independent Television Service (ITVS)

Great Museums
"The only nationwide TV series devoted to America's museums!"

History of TV Advertising
From Advertising Age

The Marilyn Pages
Includes a biography, films, images, quotes, and memorabilia of Marilyn Monroe

The Merchants of Cool
A Report on the Creators & Marketers of Popular Culture for Teenagers
PBS - Frontline

Multicultural Resources
"A quick-reference library for African, Native and Hawaiian America"
Maintained by Will Karkavelas, Osaka University

Netzal
"...is a bilingual Web Portal and content aggregator connecting U.S. Latinos to one another and to their community via culturally relevant content and services that foster pride in the beauty and richness of the Latino experience."

The NPR 100
"This year NPR [National Public Radio] will explore the stories behind the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. These special on-air segments will cover a wide variety of genres, including classical, jazz, rock'n'roll, country, R&B, musical theatre and film scores."
- npr Online

PBS - American Experience - The Kennedys (November 2003)
Companion website to the TV broadcast
"...a dramatic portrait of America's most famous political family and their repeated pursuit of the presidency."
Sections include: Transcript ; Primary Sources ; Further Reading ; Teacher's Guide ; Special Features ; Timeline ; Gallery ; People & Events.

PBS - Caught in the Crossfire
"Since the tragic events of September 11, a spotlight has been shone on Arab immigrants as never before. Follow the lives of three diverse Arab Americans living in New York City as they struggle to negotiate life in a changed America."
Sections include: The Story ; The People ; Their Homelands ; Arab Americans ; After 9/11: Stories ; Resources.

PBS - Independent Lens - The New Americans (March 2004)
Companion website to the PBS series.
"Follow a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and families behind and learn what it means to be new Americans in the 21st century."
The New Americans include: The Ogoni Refugees ; The Palestinian Bride ; The Dominican Baseball Players ; The Mexican Laborer ; The Indian Technical Worker.

PBS - P.O.V. - American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i (August 2003)
Companion website to the film by Lisette Marie Flanary and Evann Siebens.
"...shows the survival of the hula as a renaissance continues to grow beyond the islands...From the suburbs of Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, the largest Hawaiian communities have settled in California, and the hula continues to connect communities to their heritage on distant shores. Sounding a universal note of cultural adaptation and renewal, "American Aloha" takes us on a tour through the practices and philosophies of some of those at the forefront of hula's renaissance on the mainland. The film focuses on the work of three kumu hula, or master teachers of hula, in the largest Hawaiian communities in California."
Sections include: More About Hula ; On Language ; Discover More ; Resources ; For Educators.

PBS - P.O.V. - Flag Wars (June 2003)
Web companion to the TV broadcast of the independent film by Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras.
"'Flag Wars' is a poignant account of the politics and pain of gentrification. Working-class black residents in Columbus, Ohio fight to hold on to their homes. Realtors and gay home-buyers see fixer-uppers. The clashes expose prejudice and self-interest on both sides, as well as the common dream to have a home to call your own."

Pew Internet & American Life Project
"The Project creates original research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, health care, schools, the work place, and civic/political life. The Pew Internet & American Life Project aims to be an authoritative source for timely information on the Internetís growth and societal impact, through research that is scrupulously impartial."

The Silicon Valley Cultures Project
"...is a fifteen year ethnographic study of the cultures living and working in the hi-tech communities of Silicon Valley. Beginning in 1991, Drs. Charles Darrah and J. A. English-Lueck, professors at San Jose State University, California, developed a collaborative research project that is attempting to understand Silicon Valley as a culture area. This region is a laboratory for research into high technology communities due to its robust and varied industrial base, the use of information technologies, organizational innovations, and its broad cultural diversity."

The Smithsonian Institution

Social Movements and Culture
"This site provides a space for the study of social movements in the U.S., including those movements as linked to transnational and global movements. Our emphasis is on recent and contemporary movements, but we also aim to provide materials on earlier movements...The site currently consists of links to on-line articles, bibliographies, course syllabi, conferences, a glossary of terms for movement analysis, and sets of links to historically-oriented and contemporary sites categorized by movement type. A listserv on social movement cultures, as well as other interactive elements are planned for the future. We hope the site will prove useful to a variety of scholars, activists, and activist-scholars."
By T.V. Reed, American Studies Program, Washington State University

Spy Fi Archives: 40 Years of TV and Movie Spy Fiction
"The Spy Fi Archives is an entertaining look at how Hollywood viewed intelligence work during the Cold War and beyond."
By the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency - yes the CIA!

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....This website is aimed at students, scholars and teachers outside of the U.S. who wish to explore not only the programs of the Branch, but also the manifold ways in which American Studies is pursued within the United States. Accordingly, we have attempted to provide links to professional and scholarly organizations, to curricula, to fellowship opportunities, to publications and discussion lists, and to other sources of information which scholars and teachers will find of academic and professional interest.
U.S. Department of State

Thomas - U.S. Congress on the Internet
The official source for current legislative information on the Internet
The Library of Congress

The Yellow Pages
American Studies, University of Virginia

Smithsonian Enola Gay Exhibit Controversy
The Enola Gay Controversy
"How Do We Remember a War that We Won?"
"After about ten months of open, sustained controversy, the Smithsonian bowed to pressure, canceled the original exhibit, and replaced it with one less controversial. That action was both praised and scorned. And the whole episode continues to be a flash point among the indefatigable belligerents of the so-called 'culture wars'...Thus, the pages that follow enable users to experience the evolution of the Enola Gay controversy -- in some sense to relive it -- by reading through a chronological list of documents divided into five 'rounds.'"
By Edward J. Gallagher, Dept. of English, Lehigh University

The Last Act
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: a planned exhibit by The National Air and Space Museum.....
A collection of documents relating to the cancelled Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's exhibit. Paul Priest includes a useful side-by-side comparison of the first and final draft, with links to relevant documents, and an index of documents linked to the text of "The Decision to Drop the Bomb."
From the NuclearFiles.org - By Paul Priest.

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