Fields of Study

• Art History
• Diplomacy & Foreign Relations
• Gender
• History
• Journalism
• Literature
• Media
• Music
• Politics & Society
• Race & Ethnicity

Art History

The Art and Material Culture listing from the Crossroads American Studies Project's American Studies Web.

Research resources and collections of American Art listing from the Crossroads American Studies Project.

The Visual Arts list of ASSIST, the American Studies Information Super Turnpike, based at Keele University.

The Fine Art Forum Resource directory.

Home page of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.

The National Museum of American Art home page.

The Association of Historians of American Art home page.

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Diplomacy and Foreign Relations

The Yahoo search engine's American Foreign Policy list of links.

Extensive list of Diplomatic History links, giving access to newspapers and journals, public agencies and think tanks, and other resources related to the study of US foreign policy.

The US Diplomatic History Resources Index, offering exhaustive listings of electronic resources relating to all aspects of the study of American foreign policy.

Home page of the National Security Archive, an independent non-governmental research institute and library based at George Washington University, Washington D.C.

The Foreign Affairs guide to international affairs on the internet. Extensive listing of links emphasizing current affairs, governmental and non-governmental organizations and journals of analysis and opinion.

Home Page of the Cold War International History Project, based at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.

A collection of Cold War Policies 1945-1991 organized by subject (including negotiation, containment, detente and glasnost ). Maintained by the University of San Diego History Department.

Hanover College Cold War documents page.

Home page of the Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, US Department of State. This site provides access to information about the Foreign Relations of the United States series, Department of State records, and many other documentary materials.

An extensive, University of Houston-based, collection of Vietnam links.

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Gender

Rutgers University-based site offering comprehensive listings of electronic materials relating to women and gender.

The University of Wisconsin's list of selected women and gender resources on the World Wide Web.

The University of Maryland's Women's Studies electronic database.

The Women's Studies Electronic Research Guide, compiled by staff of the Center for the Humanities, New York Public Library.

Home page of the National Women's History Project.

The Voice of the Shuttle Gender Studies page.

The University of Virginia's 'Yellow Pages' listing of gender studies resources on the World Wide Web.

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History

American History and Modern American Society at the Department of English, Aarhus University: Suggested Essay Questions

Internet Resources in History from the Department of History at Tennessee Technological University.

Rutgers University-based site offering comprehensive listings of electronic materials relating to American and British history.

The Yahoo search engine's American history listings.

Hanover College collection of electronic primary documents covering all aspects of American history, from pre-colonization to the present.

The American Memory historical collections. Primary source and archival materials relating to American culture and history supplied by the National Digital Library of the Library of Congress.

Mississippi State University's Historical Text Archive, offering extensive collections of primary texts relating to American history, from colonization to the present.

University of Oklahoma Law Center chronological listing of American historical documents online.

From Revolution to Reconstruction - and what happened afterwards. The University of Groningen's hypertext version of An Outline of American History, offering a narrative survey from the colonial period until modern times.

The Internet Wiretap gopher collection of US historical documents, from the revolution to World War Two.

Historians and the Web: A Beginner's Guide

Places on the World Wide Web for Historians at California State University San Marcos

The History Net - Where History Lives on the Web.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: History.

North American maps archive of the University of Oregon-based Historical and Cultural Atlas Resource. Extensive collection of historical maps illustrating territorial expansion of the United States, the growth of slavery, major expeditions and more. Many of the maps are interactive and require 'shockwave' plug-ins to use.

Digital Atlas of the United States. Prepared for the California Geographical Survey and the Department of Geography at California State University, Northridge, by Professor William Bowen. The National Overview offers maps documenting patterns and trends in population and race, ancestry, citizenship, income, poverty and education.

The American Social History Project (ASHP) has educational materials for a broad audience, focusing on 'ordinary' Americans, working men and women.

The Making of America project. A collaborative venture between the University of Michigan and Cornell University, which seeks to place on-line documentary materials relating to American social history between thematically-related digital library documenting American social history and national infrastructure from 1850 to 1877.

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Journalism

The WebOVision journalism page. Extensive links.

FACSNET list of Internet Resources on a wide variety of topics of interest to journalists.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Journalism.

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Literature

The Voice of the Shuttle web page for American Literature. Extensive links to a wide range of resources relating to the study of American literature.

American Literature resources, based at the University of Pennsylvania. Extensive links to a wide range of resources relating to the study of American literature.

The On-line Books Page: an index of thousands of on-line books and common repositories of on-line books and other documents.

American Literature: Twentieth Century Texts and Resources

Columbia University's Project Bartleby, a vast collection of literary hypertexts.

Mimi, based at the University of Keele, another collection of electronic version of American literary texts, from Louisa May Alcott to Walt Whitman.

The American Verse Project of the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative and the University of Michigan Press. Offers an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.

Theater Central's listing of electronic resources on the theater.

Voice of the Shuttle drama and theater studies resources.

University of Michigan Guide to Theater Resources on the Internet.

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Media

The WebOVision media links page, offering extensive lists of electronic resources in television, radio, film and journalism.

The Media and Communications Studies home page. Gives access to websites dealing with all aspects of the mass media.

North Carolina State University Department of Communications listing of Communications Web Sites.

The Media History Project provides hypertext and multimedia learning tools to help students and scholars discover and understand trends and practices in historical media.

The Internet Movie Database, offering information about vast numbers of feature films: directors, actors, reviews, and so on.

The Cinemedia home page, another source of wide-ranging information about Hollywood - and many other - movies.

Yale Library Selected Internet Resources: Film Studies and Research Guide in Film Studies

American Communication Association Film Studies links.

University of Alberta's Film Studies on the Internet and Resources in Film Studies links page.

University of Iowa Library's gateway listing of resources dealing with Gender and Race in the Media.

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Music

Aardvark's Archives of general music links.

The World Wide Web Virtual Music Library, covering all aspects of music other than classical.

The Universal Black Pages list of music-related links .

Maintained by the Indiana University Music Library, the Worldwide Internet Music Resources list.

Indiana University-based Worldwide Internet Music Resources site. Extensive links to a vast range of sites related to various aspects of music.

Euronet's listing of music links, divided into genres, from classical to rock, from country to hip hop, from jazz to rave. Extensive alphabetical subcategories.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Classical Music.

The Yahoo search engine's classical music links list.

The Archives of African-American Music and Culture, maintained at the Bloomington campus of Indiana University.

Blues Net home page: 'the longest-running blues site on the web.'

The Blue Highway: essays, radio listings, and extensive blues links.

The Yahoo search engine's listing of jazz links.

JAZZ Online!: extensive jazz links.

The Red Hot Jazz Archive. Offers a multimedia introduction to the history and early development of American jazz from its late nineteenth century origins to the 1920s, including essays on jazz history, photographs, soundclips and video materials.

The Ultimate Band List: an index of bands and individual artists, with extensive links to web pages, lyrics, and audio-visual resources.

Rough Guide to rock music.

Bibliography of Journals Indexed for Jazz, Pop, and Rock Articles.

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Politics and Society

American Politics and the US Elections 2000

Australian-based general electronic resources list on American politics. Maintained by Malcolm Farnsworth.

The Jefferson Project. Offers links to materials on various aspects of American politics, from parties and ideologies to individuals and campaigns.

The Political Science Virtual Library. Extensive listings of electronic resources relating to political science, based at the University of Connecticut.

The National Political Index. An extensive listing of information and resources relating to diverse aspects of contemporary American politics.

Berkeley Internet Connections Directory of Political Sites.

Policy Com gives access to current discussions on a wide range of contemporary political, social and economic issues in the United States.

Congress.Org. Extensive information about the current US Congress: members, legislation, sessions, parties and so on.

Congress Link. Comprehensive website providing information about all aspects of the US Congress, from the Federal Constitution to individual members of Congress.

The Democratic Party On-line. Home page of the Democrats.

The Republican National Committee home page.

The Right Side of the Web. Listings of and links to organizations, media and individuals involved in conservative politics in the United States. Emphasis on current affairs.

Leftnet's list of links to electronic resources relating to leftist and progressive politics in the United States.

Leftist and Progressive internet resources directory.

Social Criticism Review provides an extensive list of selected readings in radical social, political, and economic criticism.

World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Migration and Ethnic Relations. Offers a collection of links to major Internet resources in the field of migration and ethnic relations with an alphabetical list of resources and a keyword search engine.

The Center for Immigration Studies, a non-partisan, non-profit organization home page, which is devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and others impacts of immigration on the United States. Provides extensive links to immigration-related web sites.

The Bureau of the Census provides statistics on: agriculture, construction, governments, international trade, income and poverty, manufacturing, population estimates, population projections, social and economic characteristics, retail-wholesale trade, 1990 data, census 2000, and business ownership.

The National Economic, Social, and Environmental Data Bank (NESEDB) is a collection of the most recent and comprehensive information on important issues in the United States. This data bank comprises over 65,000 documents, spreadsheets, diagrams, tables and time series.

FEDSTATS More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public.

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Race and Ethnicity

The Universal Black Pages home page. Extensive links to sites relating to African-American Studies.

Rutgers University listing of electronic resources on African-American studies.

The ASSIST listing of electronic resources in African-American Studies.

Black Cultural Studies an experimental Black cultural studies site.

Hanover College collection of primary documents related to the civil rights movement.

Extensive listing of electronic resources in Asian-American Studies, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Index of Native American Resources on the Internet, based at the University of Massachusetts.

Native Web, offering an extensive list of links covering a range of topics for those interested in Native American Studies, from art to politics, gender to history.

Latino Web, offering links to electronic resources relating to art, music, business, politics and more.

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