Selected Resources for:
American Studies

America: History & Life   

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1954- .

Primary index to research in American and Canadian history, including social and cultural history. Includes abstracts (summaries) of journal articles. Limit by language, time period, and document type (articles, collections of articles, books, and dissertations).

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GenderWatch   

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1970s- .

GenderWatch focuses on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas and include academic and scholarly publications. The database provides in-depth coverage of subjects that are central to women's lives as well as topics on the impact of gender and gender roles.

International Index to Black Periodicals  

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1902-

Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 African-American-oriented and -produced scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Full-text coverage of 25 core black studies periodicals from 1998 on. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary, spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues.

Ethnic News Watch. 1990-   

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1990- .

Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press.

JSTOR   

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Full text of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent 3-5 years. For more recent articles, use one of the other indexes listed in this section.

PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas)   

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Provides full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Includes titles indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI).

Encyclopedia of American Studies  

Location: Ref. E169.1 .E625 2001

Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture  

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E169.12 .E49 2001

Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies  

Brief articles about a range of racial and ethnic topics. International in scope. Entries include suggested readings.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks GN 495.6 .C37 2004

Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture  

4 vols.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E169.1 .G7555 2002

Guide to United States Popular Culture  

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E169.1 .D399 2001

American Memory  

http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress's Americana collections.

American Studies Crossroads Project  

http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/

The American Studies Crossroads Project has provided a comprehensive and integrated platform for pedagogical, scholarly, and institutional information for the international American Studies Community. This website includes the American Studies Web, which is the largest directory of web-based resources in the field of American Studies.