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  • American Memory Project
    URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/
    American Memory is a multimedia web site of digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books, pamphlets, maps, and other resources from the Library of Congress’s vast holdings. A historic initiative in its own right, American Memory currently makes available more than 100 collections and more than 9 million individual items to users in the U.S. and throughout the world.

  • American Studies Association (ASA) - Georgetown University
    URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asainfo.html
    The American Studies Association, founded in 1951, exists to promote and encourage the study of American culture--past and present. Association membership is open to all individuals and to cultural or educational institutions.

  • American Studies Crossroads Project
    URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads
    The American Studies Crossroads Project is a project of the American Studies Association with sponsorship by Georgetown University. The new version is a topical database of over 2,000 web-based resources in American Studies.

  • American Studies Web
    URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/
    Finding aids, directories and indices for American Studies resources.

  • Cultural Map
    URL: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/map_hp.html
    Cultural Maps is dedicated to the graphical presentation of non-graphical information -- whatever that turns out to mean. At present, it has something to do with maps in the ordinary and normal sense of the term; the immediate goal is to build a digital American Historical Atlas.

  • Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures
    URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/tamlit-home.html
    The Electronic Archives contain essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States. The Archives are designed as a complementary resource to the electronic discussion list, T-AMLIT. The Electronic Archives are created and maintained by the Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS) at Georgetown University's American Studies Program.

  • H-Amstdy: American Studies
    URL: http://www.h-net.org/~amstdy/
    H-Amstdy provides a forum for research and teaching in the field of American Studies, and for interdisciplinary or multi-disciplinary perspectives on culture. The li st focuses on the cultures of North America and the United States, and offers an international perspective on the study of American culture.

  • Internet Resources for African American Studies
    URL: http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/blks/internet/
    Portal features links to organizations, periodicals and news provided by the University of Delaware Library.

  • Latin American Studies at Tulane University
    URL: http://stonecenter.tulane.edu/
    Tulane’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies is one of the world’s premier programs for the study of Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Literary Resources -- American
    URL: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
    This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics.

  • Organization of American Historians
    URL: http://www.oah.org/
    The Organization of American Historians is the largest learned society devoted to the study of American history. Since its founding in 1907 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, the OAH has promoted the study and teaching of the American past through its many activities.

  • Project MUSE - Journal of Asian American Studies
    URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_asian_american_studies/
    The official publication of the Association for Asian American Studies, the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS) explores all aspects of Asian American experiences. The Journal publishes original works of scholarly interest to the field, including new theoretical developments, research results, methodological innovations, public policy concerns, pedagogical issues, and book, media, and exhibition reviews.

  • Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA
    http://www.bunchecenter.ucla.edu/
    The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, founded in 1969 as the Center for African American Studies (CAAS), is the result of the struggle by black students at UCLA to have their history and culture recognized and studied.

  • Resources for Latin American Studies
    URL: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/latam.html
    A collection of long-standing strength, the geographic focus throughout the disciplines in this interdisciplinary field has been on Brazil and Colombia, with a secondary emphasis on Mexico and Venezuela. The collection is particularly strong in nineteenth- century Colombian and Brazilian history and mesoamerican anthropology and archaeology. A recent area of development is in the field of Chilean history. The library has a special strength in eighteenth and nineteenth-century travel accounts of Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Study of the United States Branch
    URL: http://exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/
    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.