Introduction
General
- American History online – A massive collection of online primary sources/collections from the University of Illinois
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History – A helpful starting point for the study of many key topics in U.S. history
- Making of America – A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
- Picturing United States History – A resource for integrating visual evidence into the study of American history from City University, New York
- The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press - An extensive range of surveys of American opinion on a range of contemporary issues.
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery – A massive collection of digital images organised by topic
- American Studies Recommendations – A helpful and wide-ranging set of links from Richard Horwitz at the University of Rhode Island
- American Rhetoric – Extensive database of full-text American speeches
- Crossroads – An archive of American Studies hypertext projects, from the University of Virginia.
- The New Deal Network – A multi-disciplinary site developed by the Roosevelt Institute and Columbia University.
Literature
- PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide – A wide-ranging site including bibliographies and study guides linked to key topics in American literature
- American Authors on the Web – Maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University, Japan
- VG / Voices from the Gaps, Women Writers and Artists of Color – From the University of Minnesota
- American Literature – American Authors, Literary Movements and Timelines, from Donna Campbell at Washington State University
Cultural Studies
- Cultural Politics – An excellent site with extensive links to sub-sites in Popular Culture, Digital Culture, Social Movements and Culture, Environmental Justice Cultural Studies, and Interdisciplinary Cultural Theory
- Media and communications studies site - Very helpful site from the University of Aberystwyth. Has a British focus, but contains a wide range of materials on key cultural studies approaches.
- Voice of the shuttle: cultural studies - Wide-ranging site which provides a guide to ‘the intersection between cultural criticism/theory and selective resources in sociology, media studies, postcolonial studies, economics, literature, and other fields.’
- Americana : the journal of American popular culture - Full-text ejournal published by The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture, with articles on a wide range of topics