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American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century (Kingwood College)

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American Studies Web: Reference & Research (American Studies Association)

Communication Studies: Cultural Studies Resources (U. Iowa)

Cultural Studies Central

Popcultures.com

Voice of the Shuttle : Cultural Studies Page

Yahoo: Area Studies: American (U.S.)

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19th Century United States Literary, Historical and Cultural Studies

20th Century History by the Decades

Academic Info: American Literature Gateway

Academic Info: African American History & Studies

African American Literature Online

African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture

American Authors on the Web

American Women Writers Index (San Antonio College)

American Women's History: A Research Guide (Middle Tennessee State U.)

Asian Americans

A Celebration of Women Writers: Writers from USA

C-SPAN American Writers

C-SPAN American Writers II: The Twentieth Century

DHARMA beat Links Page

Digital History (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)

Electronic Poetry Center: Library of Author Home Pages

Gateway to African-American History

Google: Ethnicity

Guide to African American Documentary Resources (Cornell U.)

History - American and British (Rutgers U.)

INFOMINE: Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Resources

Japanese American Network: History

Javanoir: A Selected Guide to African American Resources on the Internet

Literary Resources -- American (Rutgers U. - Newark)

Literature & Culture of the American 1950s

Michigan eLibrary: United States History

Modern American Poetry (U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Multicultural American West (Washington State U.)

Native American Authors (Internet Public Library)

Native American Sites

Old West (Dakota State U.)

Online Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library)

Poets.org

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online

WestWeb (College of Staten Island, CUNY) (the study of the American West)

Women's Labor History (AFSCME)

Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 (Indiana U.)

WWW Virtual Library - American Indians

WWW-VL: History: United States



Online Exhibits & Subject-Specific Resources

1968 Revisited...

Ad*Access (advertisements 1911-1955)

AdFlip: Archive of Classic Print Ads

The African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920

African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: Freedom's Journal

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

The African Presence in the Americas 1492-1992

Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery

Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League 1943-1954

America 1900

America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945

America in Caricature 1765-1865: Introduction

The American 1890s: A Chronology

American Folklore

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest

American Notes: Travel in America, 1750-1920

American Roots Music

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology

American Social Hygiene Posters, 1910-1970

American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment 1870-1920

American Women and the World War II Experience

America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views 1839-1864

America's Story from America's Library

Ancestors in the Americas

Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935

Anti-Saloon League 1893-1933

Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record  new resource

Around the World in 72 Days (Nellie Bly)

The Battle over Citizen Kane

The Baton Rouge 1953 Bus Boycott: A Recaptured Past

Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916

Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency

The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 (IWW labor dispute)

Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords

The Black Renaissance in Washington, D.C. 1920-1930s

The Booker T. Washington Papers

Born in Slavery; Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

Brooklyn Bridge

Brother Can You Spare a Billion? The Story of Jesse H. Jones

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

Brown@50: Fulfilling the Promise

Brown v. Board of Education (U. Michigan)

Builders of America: The Jewish Heritage

By the People - For the People: Posters From the WPA

Camp Harmony (Japanese-Americans in WWII internment camp)

Camping with the Sioux; Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher

Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918)

The Center of the World; New York: A Documentary Film

The Cherokee Trail of Tears, 1838-1839  new resource

Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair 1886-1887

Chicago in 1900 - A Millennium Bibliography

Chicago Renaissance 1932-1950: A Flowering of Afro-American Culture

The Chicana/Chicano Experience in Arizona

Children of the Camps

The Chinese-American Experience: An Introduction

The Chinese in California 1850-1925

The Church in the Southern Black Community

Civil Rights in Mississippi

Civil Rights Movement Veterans

Civil Rights Oral History Interviews

Coney Island: The Ups and Downs of America's First Amusement Park

Creating American Jews

Crystal City: 1890s in Bowling Green, Ohio

Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp... (Japanese-Americans in WWII Internment Camps)

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls

The Disability Rights Movement

Documenting the American South

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement

The Donner Party

Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss

The Dramas of Haymarket

The Dred Scott Case

Duke Ellington's Washington

Duluth Lynchings Online Resource: Historical Documents Relating to the Tragic Events of June 15, 1920

Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965

Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920

Emma Goldman Papers

Empire of the Air

Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting

Eyes of Glory: 200 Years of an Ethnic American Family

Famous Trials

Fatal Flood: A Story of Greed, Power, & Race

The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle

First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920

Florida Heritage Collection

Fly Girls (women pilots in WWII)

Free Speech Movement: Student Protest - U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65

Freedman and Southern Society Project

Freedmen's Bureau Online

Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore

From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection 1824-1909

From Swastika to Jim Crow

Gay Bears: The Hidden History of the Berkeley Campus

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition: Document Archive

Goin' to Chicago

The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It

The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire

The Great Chicago Fire

Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community

Hawaii's Last Queen

The Haymarket Affair Digital Collection

Hispano Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande

A Historical Investigation into the Past: Lizzie Borden/ Fall River Case Study

Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights

History of the American West 1860-1920

History Through Deaf Eyes

Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center  new resource

The Hollywood Ten

Homecoming...Sometimes I am Haunted by Memories of Red Dirt and Clay (African American farmers)

Honky Tonks, Hymns & the Blues: American Music from Back Roads to Big City

Hopi History: The Story of the Alcatraz Prisoners

Household Words: Women Write From and For the Kitchen

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, by Jacob A. Riis

A Huey P. Newton Story

Hurricane of '38

The Iconography of Hope: The 1939-40 New York World's Fair

I Hear America Singing

Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement

In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures

"I Will Be Heard!" Abolitionism in America

James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)

Jazz Age Chicago: Urban Leisure from 1893 to 1934

Jazz: A History of America's Music

Jewish-American Hall of Fame

Jewish-American History on the Web

Jewish Life in the American West: Generation to Generation

John Brown's Holy War

John Gardner: Uncommon American

Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory

Jump, Jim Crow or, What Difference Did Emancipation Make?

Key Ingredients: America by Food

Korean American Digital Archive

Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas

Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary

Lost Labor

Love Canal @ 25

Love Canal Connection

The Loyalty Oath Controversy, University of California 1949-1952

Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind

Margaret Sanger and The Woman Rebel

Mark Twain: Known to Everyone - Liked by All

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project

May 4, 1970 Collection (Kent State University)

McCarthy Hearings 1953-54 (Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations)

Memories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Miss America

Monkey Trial: An All-out Duel Between Science and Religion

Muslim Life in America

Negro League Baseball

The New Americans  new resource

The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939

New Perspectives on the West

New York Underground

North American Slave Narratives

Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story

Origins of American Animation

The Other All-Americans (Buffalo Soldiers and Black Cowboys)

Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America

The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Partners of the Heart: A Black Genius, a White Surgeon, a Blue Baby and a Miracle

People of Color on America's Western Frontier

The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson

The Pill

Progress Made Visible: American World's Fairs and Expositions

The Promise of Gold Mountain: Tucson's Chinese Heritage

Public Enemy #1: The Legendary John Dillinger

Race & Ethnicity

Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War

Red Scare (1918-1921)

Remembering Jim Crow  new resource

Reporting Civil Rights

Rhapsodies in Black

Riding the Rails

The Road from Frederic to Thurgood: Black Baltimore in Transition 1870-1920

Roots in the Sand (Punjabi-Mexican families in California)

Scartoons: Racial Satire and the Civil War

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education  new resource

Separate Lives, Broken Dreams

The Shakers

Slavery Era Insurance Registry

Slaves and the Courts: 1740-1860

SNCC 1960-1966: Six Years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Some Enchanted Evenings: American Picture Palaces

Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip

Southwest Jewish Archives

Still Home: The Jews of South Philadelphia

Student Activism in the 1930s

"Suffering Under a Great Injustice" Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

Suffragists Oral History Project

Surviving the Dust Bowl

Tangled Roots (Irish & African Americans)

This Shall Be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage, 1860-1922  new resource

Through the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection

"To Serve the People:" The Black Panther Party's Struggle for Social Change

Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874

The Triangle Factory Fire

Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern Challenge

Tulsa Race Riot Photographs

Tupperware: Building an Empire, Bowl by Bowl

UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project: The Black Panther Party

Una Storia Segreta

Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture

Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest

Violence in the City -- An End or a Beginning? A Report by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, Dec. 2, 1965

Virtual Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia

Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories

Voices of Civil Rights  new resource

"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

A Warrior in Two Worlds: The Life of Ely Parker

Western New York Suffragists: Winning the Vote  new resource

White House Tapes: The President Calling

The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968

Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II

Women in America 1820-1842

Women in the Gold Rush

The World's Columbian Exposition (1893)

The World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Exerience, Aftermath

Zoot Suit Riots: Los Angeles Erupts in Violence



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