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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American Memory is a multimedia web site of digitized historical
documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books,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.
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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.
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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.
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American Studies Web
URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/
Finding aids, directories and indices for American Studies resources.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.