General American Studies Resources

• American Studies Crossroads
• American Studies Web
• William & Mary AMST Resources
• U Va American Studies
• John Moore's University (Liverpool England) AMST Resources
• Yale's Guide to American History and American Studies
• Richard Horwitz's Resource Page
• Washington State University American Studies Web Resource Project

Subject Directories & Gateways

• Voice of the Shuttle (Humanities Web)
• History Matters
• History Guide
• John Unsworth's Home Page
• Humbul Humanities Hub
• Academic Info
• American Heritage Virtual Archive Project
• American Women's History: Research Guide
• Research Guide to African American Studies

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Libraries and Museums (Multiple Collections and Exhibits)

• American Memory, Library of Congress
• New York Public Library Digital Collection
• U Va Special Collections
• The 19th Century in Print (Making of America)
• National Museum of American History
• Duke University Library Special (Digital) Collections
• The Internet Archive (a digital library of movies and internet resources)
• MuseumStuff.com (a gateway to all things museum)
• The Lost Museum (a Flash Player recreation of P. T. Barnum's American Museum, plus documents and sources)

  African America

• The History of Jim Crow
• The Avalon Project @ Yale Law School: African American Autobiography, Biography, and History
• The Dred Scott Case Documents
• Thomas Costa's "Virginia Runaways" (a website on runaway slaves)
• Civil Rights in Mississippi (a digital archive from the Univ. of Southern Mississippi)
• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in America: A Visual Record
• Virginia Commonwealth University's Collection of Images of African Americans
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
• Without Sanctuary
  

• Ad*Access
• Advertising in American, 1850-1920
• Advertising from Harper's Weekly (late 19C)
• Photographs Division UMich
• Documenting the American South
• Detroit Publishing Company, 1880 - 1920
• The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
• Film-Philosophy: Journal, Salon, Portal
• Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art
• Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War (civil war photographs and text)
• Small Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection
• D.W. Griffith: Excerpts from His Greatest Films
• The George Catlin Indian Gallery (a virtual exhibit at the Smithsonian)
• Cowboy Photographer: Erwin E. Smith (cowboys at the turn of the 20C)
• The Charles Cushman Photo Collection (an amateur photographer's 14,500 color slides from 1938-69)
• American Art (articles and other material from the journal)

• Cultural Studies Central
• popcultures.com
• Marxists Internet Archive
• Theory.org: Social Theory of Fans of Popular Culture
• Media Education Foundation
• 3Cities Project: NY, Chicago, LA

• The Wright Collection of American Fiction Online
• Research Society for American Periodicals
• Stanford University's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection
• The Literary Gothic
• Paul P. Ruben's Perspectives in American Literature Research & Reference Guide
• The Web of American Transcendentalism (etexts, essays, bibliography)

• Women and Social Movements in the US (a rich documentary resource)
• Jim Zwick's Pages on Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century US
• Historical Text Archive
• The New Deal Network
• The Home Economics Archive at Cornell (20C scientific domesticity)
• Bibliography of the History of American Education
• The Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University
• America in the 1770s, 1850s, and 1920s (an excellent collection of primary documents and overviews of each decade)
• American Journeys -- Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (An excellent resource center)
• The Brooklyn Eagle (an online repository of a Gilded Age newspaper)
• Drawing the Western Frontier: The James E. Taylor Album (1860 to 1900 by a professional illustrator)
• People, Places, Politics, and Social Movements of the Progressive Era (reviews web sites)