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Arnet - on line reources for American Studies

Updated 3 February, 2010

  • There is an extremely useful site on all aspects of American Studies provided at the University of Keele.

  • American Studies Electronic Crossroads at Georgetown University is its own informative database on American Studies and contains a vast number of links to sites of interest to American Studies teachers.

  • The British Association for American Studies (BAAS) maintains an interesting Web site with loads of hot links to other sites of interest.

  • Social Studies School Service is an educational audio visual supplier whose site contains vast amounts of documents and links to other sites.

  • The American Studies Research Portal is an online resource for American Studies researchers in the UK. The site is an initiative developed by the Institute for the Study of Americas (formerly the Institute of United States Studies) at the University of London, in consultation with the American Studies community in the UK. Offers a highly searchable directory of American Studies research resources in the UK.  

 

Government and Politics

  • Moveon.Org  is dedicated to to bringing ordinary people back into politics.  When it becomes clear that our "representatives" don't represent the public, the foundations of democracy are in peril. MoveOn is a catalyst for a new kind of grassroots involvement, supporting busy but concerned citizens in finding their political voice. Our nationwide network of more than 600,000 online activists is one of the most effective and responsive outlets for democratic participation available today.

  • Common Dreams is a national non-profit citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for America's future. Founded in 1997, it is committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the internet as a political organizing tool - and creating new models for internet activism. The site contains a wide range of news and comment on all the major issues of the day.

  • The Federal Election Commission has a wide range of information on voting procedures for presidential and other elections.

  • The American Politics Group is a specialist group of the Political Studies Association. It was founded in 1974 to promote the study of US politics in the United Kingdom. The Group holds an annual conference, usually in early January. The keynote event is the John D Lees Memorial Lecture, normally given by a leading American academic and named after the Group's principal founder. The Group also sponsors an annual colloquium. This is organised in conjunction with the British Association for American Studies and is usually held in November at the US Embassy in London.

  • The US Embassy has its own web site which includes a very useful ready reference section as well as a carefully selected set of links to other useful sources of information. 

Information, Libraries and Museums

  • US Newspaper Holdings in UK and Irish Libraries is an on-line database maintained by American Studies Library Group in cooperation with BAAST

  • The US Department of State site offers a very comprehensive range of information on all aspects of American Studies, with links to a huge number of sites.

  • Information USA is a comprehensive site maintained by the US Department of State International Information Systems. It offers a one-stop shop for all your initial information needs about Government and Politics, Economy and Trade, Media, Information Technology issues, the arts and culture, with e-journals and a range of hyperlinks to give you up-to-the minute information.

  • The Smithsonian Institution is one of the most important museums in the United States. This site contains a virtual tour of the museum and information on publications and links to a vast number of sites dealing with many aspects of American history.

  • A vast collection of facts and figures and other information on the United States population is available from the US Census.

  • The Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library promotes the Library's North American collections among academics, students and the general public and supports the study of North America.

  • For information on books on anything from aardvarks to zygotes, search the Library of Congress public on-line catalogue.

  • National Museums Liverpool  includes the Merseyside Maritime Museum, which tells the story of one of the world's greatest ports and the people who used it. The Museum's collections reflect the international importance of Liverpool as a gateway to the world, including Liverpool's role in the transatlantic slave trade and emigration. The Maritime Archive and Library contains one of the finest collections of merchant shipping records in the UK. (See also the Ellis Island Museum)

  • Museum of the City of New York includes information on all collections and archives situated within the museum, and also upcoming events.  

Environment

Geography
History

  • The C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience is an innovative forum for new scholarship about American history. Drawing on the special historical strengths of Washington College and Chestertown, the Center will explore the early republic, the rise of democracy, and the manifold ways in which the founding era continues to shape American culture. The Center will be interdisciplinary in a number of ways, encouraging the study of traditional history alongside new approaches, and seeking to bridge the divide between the academic world and the public at large. The Center will pursue excellence in the writing and teaching of American history at all levels, and will also develop a leading role in the study of the Eastern Shore and Chesapeake Bay.

  • The Journal for MultiMedia History is a new venture whose aim is to publish a journal of history that uses hypertext and multimedia technologies to merge audio, video, graphics, and text into a form that can only be communicated on the World Wide Web (WWW) or on CD-ROM/DVD mediums. They wish to bring serious historical scholarship and pedagogy under the scrutiny of amateurs and professionals alike, to utilize the promise of digital technologies to promote and legitimate innovations in teaching and research.

  • WWW project in collective writing – From Revolution to Reconstruction is a huge website of writing on all aspects of American history. It contains scholarly articles from around the world and also hypertext versions of the Outline of American History and all the other volumes in the USIA Outline series.

  • Students of the Civil War will find much of interest at Louisiana State University's comprehensive US Civil War Centre Their mission is to promote the study of the Civil War from the perspectives of all professions, occupations and academic disciplines; to locate, index, and make available all appropriate private and public data on the Internet regarding the Civil War. They also produce a magazine Civil War Book review.

  • The Valley of the Shadow is "an ambitious attempt to portray electronically two neighbouring communities in the Shenandoah Valley - one Northern, one Souther - in the years before, during and after the American Civil War." according to Mark Korowitz in American Heritage.

  • History Today is the Website of History Today magazine.

  • Pioneers/Westward Expansion is a website about the Westward expansion of European settlement of the United States.

  • A Chronology of US Historical Documents contains hundreds of documents from ther annals of US history, including the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address.

  • Kidinfo is a large site devoted to providing resources for school projects. It has a particularly good section on American History.

  • Buddy, can you spare a dime? The Great Depression and The New Deal were one of the Great Turning points in American history. The New Deal Network is an educational web site sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University.

  • The History Channel this website contains historical information ranging from great speeches to facts about this day in history.

Immigration, Minorities and ethnicity

  • Welcome to Harlem: This community based enterprise offers a range of services including walking tours of the area for visitors. The walking tours are highly recommended and offer an unforgettable experience and opportunity to explore, experience and understand the history and culture of this vibrant New York district. 

    (Details of a visit made by JMU American Studies students in April 2008 will be posted soon on this site.)

  • The Nation Of Islam Online for information about this increasingly important group of American Muslims.

  • Advancing African / Moorish-American Studies The Nation of Moorish-Americans offers social services & political agency for advancing African-American studies, including: Moroccan American, black history, Missouri Compromise, Louisiana Purchase, slavery, and US treaties with Moorish-Americans.

  • NAACP ONLINE - the web site of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

  • National Civil Rights Museum for information about Martin Luther King and the struggle for civil rights.

  • The National Congress of American Indians

  • The Seminole Tribe have their own web page.

  • Kidinfo is a large site devoted to providing resources for school projects. It has a particularly good section on Native Americans.

  • The Trail of Tears is the name given to the forcible removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia to Oklahoma in 1838. A poignant account of this and the events leading up to it are given in this web site.

  • University of Houston's Center for Immigration Research seeks to study the consequences of current immigration trends.

  • The Ellis Island Immigration Museum. The Museum tells the story of the largest human migration in modern history. Between 1892 and 1954, 12 million immigrants were processed at Ellis Island. Today more than 40 percent, or over 100 million, of all living Americans can trace their roots to an ancestor who came through Ellis Island. 

  • The Family History Center is gathering the information on the more than 17 million people who immigrated through the port of New York from 1892-1924,. The data is being taken directly from the ships' passenger manifests, and being digitized and entered into an electronic database for easy access. (See also the Merseyside Maritime Museum)

  • Black music links Contains an interesting set of links regarding black music.

  • http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/black.html Black history links. An interesting site from the University of Washington. 

  • American Indian Representations is a web site maintained by staff at Minnesota University on the way in which Native Americans are represented in the media, e.g. films, books, magazines, with useful links to other sources.

  • Asian American Concerns and Issues covers a whole range of issues relating to Asian Americans.

  • The Bureau of Indian Affairs is a government agency dealing with Native American issues.

  • An African-American Resource Guide. USA People serach has a useful page of links on a wide range of African-American topics.

  • Indian Country is the on-line version of a magazine which claims to be "America's leading Indian news source".

  • The American Jewish experience through the 19th century Thorough account of American Jewish history.

  • Great African Americans in the Sciences. African Americans have contributed greatly to not only the world of science, but some of their inventions are so much a part of our everyday lives that we may take them for granted. Here are African American scientists that have made some of the most significant contributions to modern science.
Media

  • Cineaste contains articles and reviews from Cineaste Magazine. Published quarterly and appearing regularly since 1967, Cineaste is today recognized as one of America's foremost film magazines.

  • American Review online media review.

  • Website and links for Research in Popular Culture created and maintained by Washington State University students, offers online articles and general links for research in popular film and other media.

  • Digital Aesthetics is the web site based on the book of the same name.

  • Internet Movie Database contains all you ever wanted to know about every movie that was ever made.

  • The SIXTIES were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change, and here you may read about these fabulous years.

  • Listen to American radio live as you work. Live feeds from hundreds of local radio stations from across the states, on-line, ranging from jazz and pop to talk and religion can be accessed from this site. You can carry on surfing as you listen, as the transmission carries on in its own player.

  • MSN  Excellent site covering a broad range of contemporary issues.

  • Media Links Links to all American regional newspapers.

 

Law
Humanities

  • H-Net is the website of an interdisciplinary organization of scholars dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. The computing heart of H-Net resides at Michigan State University, but H-Net officers, editors and subscribers come from all over the globe.

  • We developed a page of useful links relating to Arthur Miller's play The Crucible as well as the Salem Witch trials, McCarthyism and America in the fifties for our recent conference.

  • ernesthemingway.org.uk is a new online resource for British fans of the American novelist. We hope to make this the new home for all Hemingway aficionados - telling his story, celebrating his work, and gathering together the community of his fans.
Education

  • Internet for American Studies is a free online tutorial to help university students develop their Internet research skills. Learn how to make discerning use of the Internet to help find information for your coursework and assignments. It has been designed by Cnetre Director Bella Adams

  • The Salzburg Seminar in American Studies was founded in 1947 to provide educational programs and intellectual dialogue on a variety of global themes. In 1994 the Salzburg Seminar created the American Studies Center, which offers workshops and conferences designed for university professors, administrators, and teacher trainers, on a variety of American Studies and English language themes. Its website carries loads of useful links to sites relevant to the themes explored in the seminars, as well as real audio files of many of the seminar sessions. You may also read an article by its director, Martha Gecek, in our on-line magazine.

  • ERIC the Educational Resources Information Center, is a vast clearing house of information on (mainly American) education topics.

  • Look up The US/UK Fulbright Commission for details of exchange programmes and American education.

  • Council on International Education This organisation runs a variety of exchange and educational programmes for groups to the USA.

  • Central Bureau for Educational Visits organises exchanges to the USA for qualified British teachers in all subjects. Return travel and cost of living allowance are provided by the Bureau. The Central Bureau has four offices in the UK, based in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast.

  • The CBS Center for the Study of the Americas will encourage and promote research and publication activities on cultural, political, economic, commercial issues and public policy dynamics within the United States and Latin America; foster studies that are based upon integrated approaches to the American hemisphere; and make CBS resources and knowledge more accessible to students, scholars, government and non-governmental institutions, business and the media. Furthermore, the Center will provide a focus for the coordination and development of the American Studies teaching programmes offered at CBS and extend CBS’s ties with other universities that have common or related interests
  • The Instituto B. Franklin de Estudios Noteamericanos. is a facility of the Universidad de Alcalá which publishes a scolarly journal, Tribuna Norteamericano.
  • Teach in the US. The Visiting International Faculty Program (VIF) is the leading exchange program for international educators who want to teach in the United States. VIF seeks to transform lives – of students, teachers and communities – through cultural exchange.
  • If you are thinking of working abroad, including in the United States, you will find useful information on Go Work Abroad
On-line magazines

  • American Studies Today On-line is the on-line version of the American Studies Resource Centre's annual journal, and contains authoritative articles and book reviews  from 1994 to the present on a wide range of topics.

  • 49th Parallel is a new quarterly electronic journal which aims to promote interdisciplinary study of the North American continent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from disciplines including history, politics, international relations, cultural studies, literature, cultural geography, media studies and sociology. The journal is run by postgraduate students, and aims to promote the work of postgraduates alongside that of more established scholars.

  • Village Voice describes itself as "The alternative Web site for New York City and the nation. News, features, fashion, gossip, arts, opinions, classifieds, personals, entertainment listings, restaurant reviews".

  • SYMBIOSIS is a peer-reviewed Journal indexed by the MLA. It bridges the institutional divide between literatures in English on either side of the Atlantic, a divide recognized by few creative writers. Playing a leading part in the modern revival of transatlantic perspectives, SYMBIOSIS is the only Journal uniquely concerned with studies of literary and cultural relations between the British Isles and the Americas. It publishes articles concerned with all periods of transatlantic relations, since the beginnings of Anglophone America, and representing all theoretical perspectives

 

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This page was updated in June 2005 by             Helen Tamburro   (Research Assistant)following an update in March by;
 Stacey Kennedy
Joanne Daniels
Dorrianne Casey