American Studies
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Reference materials: almanacs, encyclopedias, and other informational guides relevant to research in American Studies. Please note that this is just a sampling - there are many others located in the same sections as the ones listed below. Please ask a librarian for assistance, because there are many encyclopedias that are related to American Studies, but are focused on a subtopic, e.g. American music [art, religion, etc.].
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| Academic Search Complete |
Magazines and journals on many subjects, includes peer-reviewed and scholarly works. |
| *America: History and Life |
Comprehensive index to articles, dissertations, and books about American history and culture. |
| Biography Reference Center |
offers a comprehensive collection of more than 461,000 full-text biographies |
| Directory of Open Access Journals |
"Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals" covering all disciplines |
| Environment Complete |
Journals on topics including agriculture, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, urban planning, and more. |
| JSTOR |
Full-text articles in over 375 core academic journals with backfiles lacking only the most recent 3-5 years. |
| Project Muse |
Full-text scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. |
| ProQuest Research Library |
Information from newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics, including the arts, business, humanities, health, and social sciences. |
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| AHSearch |
Arts and Humanities Citation Index |
| AltPressIndex |
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change |
| HumanitiesIndex |
Indexes articles in the diverse subject areas of the humanities |
| SocialSciIndex |
Index of articles on the social sciences |
| Historical American Newspaper Articles | |
| America's Historical Newspapers 1690-1876 |
This database is a rapidly growing collection of digitized newspapers in colonial and early America. |
| New York Times (Historical) |
Full page and article images with full-text from 1851-2003; providing access to every page from every available issue. |
| American Literature, Poetry & Historical Documents |
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| African-American Poetry |
Poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Indexed from 1750-2900 Remote Access Not Available |
| American Poetry |
Poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century. Indexed from 1600 to 1900. Remote Access Not Available |
| Faber Poetry Library |
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. Remote Access Not Available |
| North American Women's Letters and Diaries |
Published letters and diaries, plus previously unpublished materials depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of women. 1600- 1950. |
| Sanborn Maps for North Carolina |
Provides digital access to large-scale maps of North Carolina towns and cities. |
| Twentieth Century African-American Poetry |
A collection of poetry written by the most influential African American poets of the twentieth century. Indexed from 1901 to 1998. Remote Access Not Available |
| Twentieth Century American Poetry |
A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Remote Access Not Available |
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WEB RESOURCES |
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| America in the 1930's |
Introductory looks at materials such as film, radio programs, bibliographies, and features of life from the 1930's. |
| American Cultural History |
A series of web guides on the decades of the twentieth century. |
| American Journeys |
Contains over 18,000 digital page images from more than 150 early North American travel narratives. |
| American Memory |
Library of Congress site; search by type of collection or by exhibits (full-text documents, images, audio files). |
| Useful gateway to scholarly information about American presidents. |
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| Appalachian Treasures Gateway |
A directory of sites for research on central Appalachian culture, social customs, history, and the physical and social environment. |
| AS@UVA: The Yellow Pages |
Links for resources by discipline (literature, social sciences, religion, gender, ethnicity, etc.) |
| Center for the Study of the American South |
Annotated list of sites chosen for their reference value or critical perspective. |
DigitalNC |
Digital Images Exploring North Carolina's Heritage. |
| Encyclopedia Smithsonian |
Answers to frequently asked questions and links to Smithsonian resources. |
| Making of America |
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. |
