Center for American Studies

Resources

General American Studies Websites

• usa.gov The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
  Features a comprehensive index of websites on different aspects of the United States such as politics, history, the arts, etc.

• FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
  Features resources from federal agencies on many different subjects including American history, art, music and literature.

• Welcome to the Shared Digital Future | www.hathitrust.org
  A digital repository that brings together the digitized collections of some twenty American universities. The collections comprise documents on every subjects including American studies. The access is restricted for some items.

• KU ScholarWorks: Home
  This digital repository gives free access to scholarly work created by the faculty and staff of the University of Kansas. The publications are on every subjects including American Studies.

• Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution
  More than 275 000 pictures, audio and video files, electronic journals from the Smithsonian collections and databases on many subjects including American history and culture.

• American Studies @ The University of Virginia
  A wealth of resources with access to various digital exhibits, directories of websites arranged by topic, major historical and literary texts, maps, etc.

• American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page
  American Memory is a digital library on American history and culture which features more than 100 thematic collections and 9 million items: manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, etc.

• American Libraries : Free Books : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
  A comprehensive website which gives access to books, texts and images in digital format on various topics of American studies.

• Cornell University Library Making of America Collection
  An online collection relating to American social history from the end of the Civil War to the Reconstruction, with a focus on American history, education, psychology, sociology and religion.

• American FactFinder
  Population, economic, housing and geographic data collected and provided by the Census Bureau.

• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
  Papers, essays, articles and reports on American politics, foreign policy, the economy and the law.

• The King Center Archive
  A dynamic view of the life and times of Martin Luther King through a digital archive including articles, speeches, letters, telegrams,…  with a focus on his mission of non-violence.

• American History from revolution to reconstruction and beyond
  Major primary docs of American History in full text.

• Colonial Hall Now
  103 Biographies of the Founding Fathers divided into three groups: the signers of the Declaration, the signers of the Articles of Confederation, and the signers of the U.S. Constitution.

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